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1. ‘Persian Gulf & Red Sea Naval Squadron. Proposed removal of the – from Political Control & the advisability of their being joined under one command – Vol: 20’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is the twentieth in a series of twenty items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2180/106055, IOR/F/4/2180/106056, IOR/F/4/2180/106057, IOR/F/4/2180/106058, IOR/F/4/2180/106059, IOR/F/4/2180/106060, IOR/F/4/2181/106061, IOR/F/4/2181/106062, IOR/F/4/2181/106063, IOR/F/4/2181/106064, IOR/F/4/2181/106065, IOR/F/4/2181/106066, IOR/F/4/2181/106067, IOR/F/4/2181/106068, IOR/F/4/2181/106069, IOR/F/4/2181/106070, IOR/F/4/2181/106071, IOR/F/4/2181/106072, and IOR/F/4/2181/106073).The item concerns the Court of Directors’ refusal of a proposal to unite the Red Sea and Persian Gulf squadrons of the Indian Navy, and remove them from control of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Aden.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 282/47, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5573, Coll[ection]: 10, Collection No 16 of No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 121, and terminates at f 124, 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.
2. 'Miscellaneous Papers.'
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- Abstract: The volume contains a collection of miscellaneous East India Company (and India Office) papers on 'Marine' matters, including correspondence, memoranda, committee papers, minutes, lists, notes, and extracts.The papers cover: Indian Navy (IN) matters (including constitution and government of the IN, teaching of naval gunnery, recruitment, midshipmen, shipbuilding at Bombay, and the legality of ships of the IN carrying merchandise); batta [officers' allowances]; the need for more regular communications between Bombay and the Persian Gulf; Madras (duties of the office of Master Attendant, and the Marine Board); lascars and native seamen; the award of service medals for the Persian and Burmese wars; pilots; native servants; lists of Marine Department charges at Aden in 1850; appointment of Agents; remarks on the steam route via the Cape of Good Hope; the cost of machinery for a steam factory at Bombay; and miscellaneous matters.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. One additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-183; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled and are located in the bottom 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 leading and ending flyleaves.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
3. 'Vol 212 Secret Correspondence: Bahrain; Muscat and Bandar Abbas; Miscellaneous and Local'
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- Abstract: The volume contains secret correspondence (original correspondence received and copies of correspondence sent) within the following three separate categories: Bahrein [Bahrain]; Muscat and Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] (and local); and miscellaneous and local. The Resident in the Persian Gulf during the period covered by the volumes was Commander (James) Felix Jones (acting until July 1856).The correspondence is principally with Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government, Bombay and other East India Company officials, including Commodore Richard Ethersey, Indian Navy, commanding the Persian Gulf Squadron; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Agent, Turkish Arabia; and the commanders of vessels of the Indian Navy. There is also correspondence with other British officials, including Charles Augustus Murray, Envoy and Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia, and correspondence (some of it in Arabic) with local rulers and Persian officials.General topics include:the slave trade;political intelligence;the Wahabees [Wahhabis];the operations of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf;Russian involvement in Persia;relations with Persia;administrative matters;appointments;the transmission of dispatches around the region;pearl fishing;the Anglo-Persian War (1856-57).Specific topics include:correspondence concerning the effect of the British suppression of the slave trade, January - May 1856 (folios 12-19);correspondence concerning the migration of the Al Ali tribe to Demaum [Dammām], March 1856 - January 1857 (folios 20-90);correspondence concerning relations between Muscat and Persia in the light of the claim of the Imam of Muscat to Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], February - August 1856 (folios 92-110);letter from Jones to Henry Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident, Persian Gulf, dated 3 May 1856, briefing him on his duties at Bushire during Jones's temporary absence (folio 144);papers concerning Civil Surgeons' fees for attendance on the families of public officers of the East India Company in the light of the unhealthy nature of the climate at Bushire, June - September 1856 (folios 148-152);correspondence between Jones and the Government of Bombay and between Jones and the staff officers of the Bombay Army, concerning military operations in the Persian Gulf, September 1856 - February 1857 (folios 172-297).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence runs across the two volumes into which this record has been bound (Part 1 ff 1-141B; Part 2 ff 142-299). The foliation sequence commences at 1 on the (modern) title page of volume one and terminates at 299, the last folio before the back cover of volume two. The numbers are written in pencil and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff 141, 141A, 141B. This is the system in use.Pagination: three original pagination sequences, which generally number only those pages bearing text, numbered 1-124 (ff 12-90); 1-30 (ff 92-111); and 1-305 (ff 113-297) are also present. The numbers are written in ink and appear in various positions at the top of each page.
4. Vol 246: Squadron, Persian Gulf
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- Abstract: This volume consists almost entirely of letters received by the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy from the senior Indian Navy officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron (acting or otherwise). Most of the letters are addressed to a named recipient and the bulk of these are addressed to Rear Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke; the remaining letters are addressed to Leeke's successor, George Greville Wellesley. The first correspondent stated as being in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron is Commodore Richard Ethersey; the second correspondent to appear in this role is Acting Commodore John William Young. Ethersey and Young are succeeded in this role by James Rennie, who is credited initially as Acting Commodore and later as Senior Naval Officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron. Most of the letters in this volume are from James Rennie.Some of the letters contain enclosures from other correspondents including: Major William Henry Rhodes Green; Gordon Asher, Assistant Surgeon in Medical Charge of the Honourable Company steam frigate, the Feerooz; Commander William Beaumont Selby, Indian Navy, Commander of the Euphrates flotilla.Only one of James Rennie's letters is addressed to a recipient other than the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy. The letter in question is addressed to Robert Barclay Chapman, Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India.The letters primarily discuss the movements of vessels belonging to the Persian Gulf Squadron. A couple of letters include lists of vessels which have arrived and/or sailed from Bushire, along with details of their cargo. Several of the letters concern the Persian Gulf Squadron's involvement in the Anglo-Persian War and in the Battle of Mahomerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] in particular. Other subjects covered include: matters relating to naval officers, including appointments, examinations, resignations and deaths; the states of repair of some of the Squadron's ships; the discovery of two shoals in the Persian Gulf which do not appear in existing charts; accounts of coal reserves at Bushire, Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū] and Muscat; the state of the pier at Bassadore.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 169. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the volume.
5. Vol 70, 71: Letters Inward
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- Abstract: The volume contains letters received at Bushire from William Sowden Collinson, the Commodore of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, stationed at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū], and the Government of Bombay. The correspondence pertains to political affairs along the Arab Gulf coast, particularly in relation to the rise in Wahhābī influence in the region. There are also updates on ship movements in the Gulf and the maintenance of the naval station at Bassadore. Some of the letters contain reports of proceedings by ship captains, containing details of voyages taken through the Gulf. More miscellaneous subjects covered include requests for plants and the eggs of silkworms, and the lending of ship libraries to the Bushire Residency.Physical description: Foliation: the sequence commences at the title page and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. There are the following irregularities: folio 1 is followed by 1A. This is the sequence used by this catalogue to reference items within the volume.Pagination: An original pagination sequence written in ink is also present in the volume between ff 1A-37.
6. Letters Inward
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- Abstract: This file consists almost entirely of letters received at the Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Most of the letters are addressed to the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf; very few of these letters state the name of the Acting Resident; those that do include a name are addressed to Samuel Hennell.The principal correspondents in this file are the following: Edward M Wood, Secretary to Government, Marine Department, Bombay; John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay; William Henry Wathen, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay; Charles Malcolm, Superintendent of the Indian Navy; John Pepper, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron.Several of the letters include enclosed letters. For instance, some of Wood's letters contain copies of correspondence between the Government of Bombay and Charles Malcolm, Superintendent of the Indian Navy. These enclosed letters relate to new arrangements – proposed by the Resident, James Morrison – concerning the role of the Commodore's ship (previously almost permanently stationed at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū], but recently required, following Morrison's changes, to make regular trips throughout the Gulf). Malcolm objects to the changes and makes the case for having a station vessel at Bassadore.The letters from Wood and Willoughby respectively relay the approval, and in some cases, the instructions, of the Governor in Council, Sir Robert Grant, regarding the Resident's duties. Many of these letters concern the Resident's conduct in political affairs in the Gulf. For instance, one letter relates to a dispute between the Shaik of Kishm [Shaikh of Qeshm] and the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. Other letters discuss more routine tasks, such as the forwarding of packets and the maintenance of the buildings under the Resident's charge.Other subjects discussed include: the maintenance and movements of Indian Navy ships, particularly in relation to the Euphrates Expedition, headed by Francis Rawdon Chesney; Malcolm's dismissal of the commander of the Cyreneschooner for having shown extreme carelessness while in charge of that vessel, resulting in it running aground; arrangements – sanctioned by the Governor in Council –for the conveyance of mail between Mohammarah [Khorramshahr] and Damascus and Beirout [Beirut], using dromedaries and horses respectively; the reported tearing down of British colours by the French authorities at the Port of Bussora [Basra]; reported piratical activity in the neighbourhood of Adeed.The final letter in the file, which is from Willoughby, concerns instructions regarding the conduct of British officers when detached with troops of British allies. The letter contains two extracts from two separate letters from the Court of Directors, the first of which is dated 25 September 1835 and refers to an incident in which a British officer, Captain Rochfort, failed to intervene and prevent the execution of ninety-nine prisoners.Physical description: Pagination: There is a pagination sequence, which is written in ink, in the top right corners of the rectos and in the top left corners of the versos.Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. This sequence begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 54. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.