‘Persian Gulf Relative to Vessels of a suspicious Character lurking on the track of the Coasting trade in the’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf Relative to Vessels of a suspicious Character lurking on the track of the Coasting trade in the’
- Date:
- 1852/1852
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 January 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2504/142185. Further enclosures to the letter can be found at: IOR/F/4/2504/142194; IOR/F/4/2504/142195; IOR/F/4/2504/142196; IOR/F/4/2504/142197; IOR/F/4/2504/142198; and IOR/F/4/2504/142200. The item is the fifteenth in a series of sixteen items about the Persian Gulf.The item contains instructions from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, dated 28 October 1852, following reports of 'suspicious vessels' around the Persian [Iranian] Coast and rumours that the 'pirate' Soheil ben Ateysh [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh, also rendered in text as Sheil ben Ateysh] has returned to Biddah [Al Bid‘] and Wakrah. Kemball instructs Robinson to warn his commanders to look out for these vessels, including how to identify them and what to do with them.Kemball sends copy of his instructions, along with some comments, to the Government of Bombay, who in turn forward them to the Government of India.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', 'Draft No. 350 of 1853', 'Collection No. 1 of No. 8 of 1853', 'Vol: 15', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '6' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1275, and terminates at f 1279, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Rumours
Piracy
Persian Gulf Naval Squadron - Geographic region:
- Persian Gulf
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108445748.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108445748.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2504/142199
IOR/F/4/2504/142199