Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The principal correspondents are: Government of Bombay; Government of Bombay Military Department; Aga Mahomed Shoostree [Muḥammad Shushtari, Āghā], an agent of the Imam of Muscat.The item concerns the discussion over some guns sent from London to the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] for his ship
Shah Alum; the guns are now surplus to requirements as the Imaum has purchased his own in the interim. The guns that the Imaum purchased will be sent back to the Bombay Arsenal, and the new guns from London received by the Imaum.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 3, Draft 293, P.C. 362, [Season] 26/7, Examiner’s Office 1824’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 61, and terminates at f 71, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the sixth in a series of seven items about the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/1912/81793, 81794, 81795, 81796, 81797, and 81799). The correspondents are: the governments of Bombay and India; Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; and Lieutenant Charles D Campbell of the East India Company Steamer
Hugh Lindsay.The item concerns the initial refusal of Sheik Faris of Mahomerah [Shaikh Faris bin Ghaith Āl Kaabi of Mohammarah, i.e. Khorramshahr] to give Campbell coal deposited at Mahomerah belonging to the British Government, despite acknowledging that it was British property.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Col [Collection] 12, Draft 713, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3227, [Season 18]41’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 388 and terminates at f 406, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: Correspondence relating to naval stores. Correspondence includes Bill of Lading for Naval Stores mentioning items such ship's fittings, sinkers iron, wires sweep, blocks steel, floats. The correspondence mentions stores were shipped in SS
Arabistan, SS
Mount Oxford,and
SS
Marietta.Correspondents include the Political Agent, Bahrain; Office of the Staff Officer (Intelligence) Persian Gulf; Naval Store Officer; Admiralty Storage Department; Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo.Physical description: Foliation: the system of foliation in use is the numbers in a circle in the top right of the folio. Foliation anomaly: no f 6.
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1838, dated 7 February 1838. The enclosures are dated 17 July-29 November 1837.The item relates to Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and covers the following matters:The arrival of Lieutenant Henry Blosse Lynch at Bagdad [Baghdad; this spelling is also used in the item] to take command of the steam vessels in the rivers of the Pachalic [Pashalik] (the Euphrates and Tigris) and to put them in condition for effective service. The correspondence chiefly discusses the officers, men and stores considered necessary to equip the
Euphratessteamer for service, including the indent (request) submitted by Lynch to the Superintendent of the Indian Navy (ff 15-18), and which Presidency (Bombay or Bengal) will be liable for the expenses incurred and the personnel requiredThe arrival of ‘Indian Agents’ deputed to supervise the restoration of the canal of Kerbela [Karbala], including a meeting of the Political Agent in Bagdad with the Pacha [Pāshā], and his expectation that complications will arise due to the involvement of various interested parties (f 8)The proposal of the Governor-General of India to send a Mr Eliot to provide assistance to Colonel Robert Taylor, the Political Agent at Bagdad, and the suggestion that since there is no actual need for an assistant, Eliot could be employed ‘collecting information on the political and commercial condition of the countries in the neighbourhood’ (f 26).The correspondents are: Lynch; the Government of Bombay; Government of India; the Controller of the Government Steam Vessels, Calcutta [Kolkata]; and Taylor.Physical description: 1 item (24 folios)
Abstract: The file contains correspondence from the Foreign Office, HM Minister, Tehran, and officials of the Persian Government concerning the import of naval stores into the Royal Indian Marine (RIM) [Royal Indian Navy] depot at Henjam.The Government of Persia refused to allow import of the stores free of duty, and refused to recognise the existence of the naval depot, as they could find no legal basis for its existence. The papers show that British officials were reluctant to press for the stores to be allowed in duty-free in case the Persians renewed their demand made in 1932 for the complete evacuation of the Henjam base.The file contains approximately five folios of diplomatic correspondence in French between officials of the British and Persian Governments.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 33; these numbers are printed, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.