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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [40] (46/114)
The record is made up of 56 folios. It was created in 1903. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.—RESOURCES AND DEFENCES.
Anchorage,
&c.
No repairing
facilities.
Supplies.
Communica
tions.
Old defences.
Saluting
battery.
Steamers, &c.
Armed
natives.
Vessels can lie off the town in the Hafar channel, close to the
bank, but, there being no room to swing, they generally anchor
near the mouth of the channel.
There is no iDformation as to landing places.
It is understood that there are no facilities for repairs.
Coal. —There is no information as to coal.
Water. — There is no information as to wells. The water in
the Hafar channel, as in the Shatt-al-Arab, is fresh, and it is both
cooler and purer than the water of the latter river.
Fond. —A few supplies can be obtained in the bazaar at Mo-
hammerah.
The surrounding country would appear to be capable of
furnishing large food supplies if required.
Boads. —On Lord (Jurzon's map of 189i, a road is shown run
ning from Mohammerah to the E., connecting with a road which
follows the E. bank of the Karun River to Ahwaz, Shuster,
Dizful, &c.
Steamers. —Bucknall Bros, and the Anglo-Arabian Steam
Navigation Co.'s steamers call regularly.
A steamer of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation
Co. (Messrs. Lynch) plies fortnightly between Mohammerah and
Ahwaz.
Telegraph. —A telegraph line connects Mohammerah w»th
Ahwaz, following roughly the W. bank of the Karun.
It may be noted that the Turkish land line connecting Fao
with Basra follows the W. bank of the Shatt-al-Arab, and passes
close to Mohammerah. It is believed that there is no connection
between the Persian and Turkish lines at present.
There were originally three mud batteries at the mouth of the
Hafar channel, viz., one on each of the points flanking the en
trance and one on the N. shore, a few hundred yards higher up
the channel, close to where the British Consulate now stands.
The batteries were bombarded and reduced to ruins by the
British in 1857, and at the present day only the remains of the
south battery are visible, the site being used as a quarantine
station.
According to a press account in 1902 the Sheikh of Moham
merah has four guns under a canopy at leilieh, 1 mile up
the Shatt-al-Arab (? identical with Fahliyah on Chart 1,235)
which are used for saluting purposes, and always return the
salutes of mail steamers.* The size of the guns is not known.
According to the same press account the Sheikh has two
steamers, and also steam launches moored oil " Feilieh."
not stated whether these are armed.
According to the same account the " Sheikh's people
plentitully supplied with Martinis—the tribes, mainly Arab, are
very independent of Persian rule, and never more united than
now (1902) under the Sheikh.
* The same account states that the residence of the Sheikh is at Feilieh,
whilst the residence of his Persian princess, an imposing building, lies a
little higher up the river.
river
It is
are
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Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Report, 1898.
There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.
Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
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