‘Persian Gulf. Relative to an act of piracy committed on the African coast by a Ras-el-Khymah boat.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to an act of piracy committed on the African coast by a Ras-el-Khymah boat.’
- Date:
- 1853/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2550/149197. It is the fifteenth in a series of sixteen items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Major Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and the Company’s Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muskat [Muscat]; and Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar, chief of Rusulkhymah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah].The item concerns:The efforts to obtain reparations for ships seized by the people of Charrack [Bandar-e Charak]The failure of an attempt by a group of men from the Tungistoon [Tungistan] tribe to rescue their chief, Bauker Khan [Bāqir Khān Tangistānī], who is being held prisoner in Bushire [Bushehr]The effects of the recent earthquake in Sheeraz [Shiraz], and the resignation of Feerooz Mirza [Fīrūz Mīrzā Nuṣrat-al-Dawlah, text includes multiple spellings], the Prince Governor of FarsA ‘piracy’ committed near to Zanzibar, and the question of whether Sheikh Sultan ben Suggar is liable to pay compensation.The item contains a table of contents (f 635), and the title page (f 634) contains the following references: Draft Number ‘358 - 1854’, ‘Collection No. 10 of No. 109 of 1853. Vol. 15’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’. The collection number was originally given as ‘3’ but this has been crossed out and replaced with ‘10’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 634 and terminates at f 654, 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:
- Earthquakes
Seizure of vessels and cargoes
Compensation - Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108905525.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108905525.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2550/149211
IOR/F/4/2550/149211