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1. '1/C Volume IV Miscellaneous'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a variety of miscellaneous topics in the period December 1923 to July 1924.The principal topics discussed are:A proposal to replace the Iraq Post Office in Kuwait, 1924.Purchase of land in Iraq by Kuwait subjects, 1924.The visit of Naif Al Hithlain, 1924.`Ajman and Mutair raid, 1924.Internal Kuwait situation, 1924.Ikhwan movements, 1924.RAF flights Baghdad-Bahrain-Kuwait, 1924.The volume contains an index (folio 4) which lists items including: American Mission; Armenian Woman; Clerical Establishment; Embezzlement and Fraud, Prevention of; Germans not allowed in Kuwait; 'Government Telegraph Code'; Hijaz steamers; Hospital Bum; Ibn Sa'ud; Index to Summaries of Intelligence; Khuwair (also referred to as Khor az-Zubair) [Khawr az Zubayr] Postal Service; King Husain proclaimed Khalifah at Basrah; Naval Reporting; Pearling Loans; 'Persian Gulf Pilot'; Petrol; Presents; Publications; Purchase of land in Iraq by Kuwait subjects; Rifles, Storage of; Slave Trade; Smuggling.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 307; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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; nor does it include the five leading and ending flyleaves.Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 5-307; these numbers are also written in pencil but, where circled, are crossed through.
2. ‘Regarding the recently ascertained error in the Geographical position of Bushire’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Marine Letters sent between the Government of Bombay and the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1847 and 26 May 1847.The item relates to the discovery of an error in the hydrographic charts of the Persian Gulf with regards to the position of Bushire [Bushehr]. Captain Robert Oliver, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, makes suggestions for rectifying the error. Oliver also suggests contacting Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, who contributed to the original chart.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Marine Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5946, Draft No. 130 of 1848’, ‘Collection N. 8’ and ‘Secretary’s Office, Marine Branch, 1847’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 116, and terminates at f 125, 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.
3. ‘Memoir on the South and East Coasts of Arabia’
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- Abstract: Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 27 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 17 July-27 August 1844.The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to a ‘Memoir on the South and East Coasts of Arabia’, written by the Political Agent, Aden, and accompanying nautical chart. The memoir and chart themselves are not included in the item.The correspondents are the Political Agent and the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
4. ‘Persian Gulf pilot comprising the Persian Gulf and its approaches from Ras al Hadd, in the south-west, to Cape Monze, in the east.’
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- Abstract: Persian Gulf pilot comprising the Persian Gulf and its approaches, from Ras al Hadd, in the south-west, to Cape Monze, in the east. Published for the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1932. Eighth edition.The pilot begins with a number of introductory sections:Notice of caution when approaching British ports, including the closure of ports and examination of vessels entering ports (folio 1v, inside front cover);Notations of supplements and annual summaries of notices to mariners relating to this book (folio 2);Cautionary notes on the measurements, including those for (bearings, longitude, latitude, depth) given in the pilot, and the different methods of shading used to indicate colours of flags, tidal light signals and beacons in the pilot (folio 5);Advertisement to the eighth edition (folio 6) providing an outline history of the pilot, and updates to the latest edition;Contents page (folios 7v-8), referring to the pilot’s pagination;A list of views (illustrations), with reference to the pilot’s pagination (folio 8v);A glossary of terms (folio 9), organised alphabetically, and with an indication of their origin (Arabic, Baluchi, Hindustani, Persian);Notes on the system of orthography (folios 10-11);Information relating to Admiralty charts and other hydrographic publications and general navigation (folios 12-19), with sections on the correction of Admiralty charts, and their degree of reliance, navigational publications, including the Admiralty lists of lights and wireless signals, tide tables, and general remarks relating to practical navigation;A map of the head of the Persian Gulf, dated July 1932, indicating those areas covered by Admiralty charts (folio 20v);A map of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, dated July 1932, with an indication of those areas covered by Admiralty charts mentioned in the pilot (folio 21v);An insert (folio 22) detailing those elements not included in the present volume.The main body of the pilot is arranged in chapters and appendices as follows:Chapter 1 - General Remarks: physical features, depths, political and administrative divisions, British representation, ports and anchorages, towns and population, languages, supplies, products, trade, currencies, weights and measures, the pearl fisheries, health, meteorological information (pressure, winds, cyclones and depressions, climate and weather, humidity, rainfall, dew, fog, visibility), currents, tides, tidal streams, signals, communications, pilots, deratisation, native craft, piracy, obtaining information, presents, coal, fuel oil, docks, repairs, standard time, passages;Chapter 2 - Approaches to the Persian Gulf from the south; the coasts of Oman, Batinah, and Ash Shamailiyah; Ras Al Hadd to Dibah;Chapter 3 - Approaches to the Persian Gulf from the east; the coasts of Las Bela, Makran, Persian Makran, including Jask; Cape Monze to Jask;Chapter 4 - Entrance to the Persian Gulf; Ruus al Jabal and the Persian coast, including Bandar ’Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Qishm [Kīsh] island; Dibah to Ras Ash Sha’am and Jask to Charack [Bandar-e Chārak];Chapter 5 - Northeast side of the Persian Gulf; the coast of Persia; Charack to Ras Ash Shatt, including Bushire;Chapter 6 - The southwest side of the Persian Gulf; the coast of Trucial Oman, and the eastern side of Qatar; Ras Ash Sha'am to Ras Rakan;Chapter 7 - The southwest side of the Persian Gulf; western side of Qatar, Bahrain [referred to as Bahrein throughout], and the coasts of Nejd [Najd] and Kuwait; Ras Rakan to Khor ’Abdullah;Chapter 8 - The head of the Persian Gulf; coasts of Persia and Iraq; Ras Ash Shatt to and including the Shatt al ’Arab; the Tigris and Euphrates;Appendix 1 - List of ports available for underwater repairs, with details of the largest dry or floating dock or patent slip at each port;Appendix 2 - List of principal ports, showing the particulars of depth at approach and anchorage, rise of tide;Appendix 3 - Meteorological data (air pressure, air temperature, rainfall, wind) - for Muscat, Pasni, Jask, Bushire, Bahrain; Kuwait, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Basra;Appendix 4 - Places suitable for magnetic observations;Appendix 5 - Tidal streams, with tables for four locations, including Henjam, and semi-diurnal and diurnal factors.Throughout the main chapters there are illustrations of the parts of the coastline being discussed by the accompanying text. These illustrations, which are a mix of line drawing and reproductions of watercolours, indicate the profile of the land, and highlight distinctive topographical features such as trees and forts.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 199.Pagination: There are two printed pagination systems, which generally situate numbers in the top-left corner of versos and the top-right corner of rectos. The first, which uses Roman numerals, runs through the pilot’s introductory pages (ff 6-19). The second pagination system uses Arabic numerals, and runs through the remainder of the pilot (ff 23-197).The number of each chapter is indicated throughout the chapter (expressed as ‘Chap.’ and the chapter number as a Roman numeral) in the top-left corner of rectos and the top-right corner of versos. The lines of text on each page in each chapter are numbered in intervals of five (i.e. 5, 10, etc.)
5. File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
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- Abstract: The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. They discuss cost estimates and actual expenditure in relation to the approval of Government of India proposals for the expansion of the cadre of the Indian Political Department in order to fill Consular posts in Persia, 1904-1905 and 1909; the establishment of a new Political Agency at Kuwait (spelt Koweit), 1904-1907 and the purchase of the steam launch Lewis Pelly, built at the Government Dockyard in Bombay, for the use of the Political Agent at Kuwait, 1906-1907, 1909-1912 and 1914. The volume also contains a sea chart of Kuwait Port, by the Marine Survey of India in 1905.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.