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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [‎52] (58/114)

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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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52 PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .—RESOURCES AND DEFENCES.
(4.) Three other buildinojs in ruins.
(5.) A serai (only suitable for natives) has been put in a state
of repair by the native A^ent. It consists of five small
rooms and a verandah with a kitchen attached.
The native Agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. lives in private quarters about ^ mile from
the flagstaff and jetty.
Rifle range. There is a rifle range (length 600 yards) which is used by
vessels of the East Indian Squadron employed in the Persian
Gulf.
Supplies. CW—There is no coal supply at present.
Water. —There are three Government birkas (reservoirs) for
rain water, each measuring 60 feet by 8 feet and 16 feet deep.
In 1902, according to a Press account, these reservoirs were in
very good repair. The supply of good water is limited. When
the reservoirs are empty water has to be brought from Nakhli-
stan (Old Bassidore), nearly 2 miles distant, and in this case
vessels are advised by the " Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot, ,, 1898, that
water is more quickly obtainable at Linga (Persian coast) or
some other port.
Food. —A few provisions and necessaries are procurable.
Communica- There is no information as to roads, and at present there is
tiona. neither Steamer nor telegraphic communication. The nearest
cable station is Jashk. It has been proposed to connect Bassidu
by a X-piece with one of the cables Jashk-Bushire, and to
prolong this through Clarence Strait to Bunder Abbas. {See
also under Henjam island, pp. 55 and 56, for another proposal.)
No defences. There are no defences.
Apparently no traces can be found of the former Portuguese
fort which is supposed to have been at " Kalat Haji Karim"
(? Kalat Hajji Karitu), E. of the provisional boundary.
Special re- According to a special report made in 1900, there is very
port on Bas- good harbour accommodation at Bassidu for vessels drawing not
sidu in 1900. more than 16 feet, and the anchorage is well sheltered by
surrounding shoals. Bassidu would be unsuitable as a naval
station except for small ships,* and it is inconveniently far from
the entrance of the Gulf for purposes of observation and control.
The place could be defended by forts built on the land side and
on outlying shoals.
Remarks. —Bassidu was the headquarters of the (troops and)
ships after the expedition of 1819 and remained a station for the
Indian Marine up to 1879. It is reasonable to infer from the
continued use of Bassidu for 60 years that it was not without
natural advantages as a naval station.
<■- The discovery of the deeper approach to the anchorage would probably
modify this opinion.

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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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