Euphrates Flotilla

Title:

Euphrates Flotilla

Date:

1842/1842

Description:

Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 136 of 1842, dated 29 November 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 7 October to 30 November 1842. They consist of papers, mainly correspondence, relating to the steam ship flotilla on the River Euphrates.The correspondence discusses matters including:The approval of the Government of India and the Government of Bombay to the proposal of the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Captain Robert Oliver, that the single steamer which is to be left on the Euphrates should be placed under the orders of the Commodore in the Persian Gulf, and be placed by him at the disposal of the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq]The Honourable Company’s steamers Assyriaand Nimrod, brought down to Bombay [Mumbai] from the Euphrates, being fitted out for service on the IndusA report of the proceedings of the Honourable Company’s flotilla on the Euphrates and Tigris for the months of August and September 1842The Government of Bombay informing Commander Henry Blosse Lynch (commanding the steam flotilla on the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris) in response to his report on the depot at Marghill [Al Ma‘qil], that it is not necessary for it to either purchase or rent the buildings at the depot as the Euphrates Flotilla has been disbandedThe Government of Bombay requesting the removal of the stores at Marghill and at other places on the River Euphrates to the Bombay Presidency, with the exception of those which are required by the steamer Nitrocris, ordered to be retained for service on the Euphrates.The correspondence is between the following: the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Thomas Herbert Maddock; the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Taylor; the President and Governor in Council of Bombay, Sir George Arthur; and Commander Lynch.Physical description: 1 item (30 folios)

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Steamships

Geographic region:

Marghill
Euphrates River
Tigris River

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100139592713.0x000002_ar
81055/vdc_100139592713.0x000002_en
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444

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