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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [63] (71/114)
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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CHAHBAR, 63
CHAHBAR.
(See Admiralty Chart 38, with
inset
A small map or other image enclosed within the margin of a larger map, map sheet, or larger image; or papers placed inside a book or archival volume.
.)
Chahbar is on the Persian coast between the Gulf entrance
and the Indian frontier.
It is rumoured that the Russians desire to establish a coalins
station here.*
The population of the town in January 1903 was about 3,000,
chiefly Baluchis, engaged in seafaring pursuits.
The government is administered by the chief Persian custom
house official.
There is considerable trade.
The approximate distance of Chahbar from— Passage
Cape Jashk - - - is 162 miles. distances.
Grwadar - - - ,, 104 „
Maskat - - - ,, 150 ,,
The bay is 7| miles broad at the entrance and 10 miles Chahbar Bay.
deep. The town of Chahbar is on the shore close inside the E.
point of the bay. There is an anchorage for moderate draught
vessels abreast of the town. There is also an anchorage on the
W. side of the bay N. of Kuhlab point. The best landing place
at Chahbar is close to the fort on the sandy beach. A report
of January 1903 stated that there is good landing opposite the
telegraph station, and it was understood that men and stores
could easily be landed except on very rare occasions.
Coal. —There is no coal. Supplies.
Water. —There is good water in wells among the gardens close
S. of the fort. {See also under "Telegraph Station.")
Food. —Sheep and bullocks can be procured from the country,
but time is necessary.
Vegetables, fish, &c. can be obtained.
{See also under Telegraph Station.)
There are no roads to the interior. Commumca-
Mails are brought from Gwadar by camel, taking about three tlons '
days.
Steamers. —A steamer calls every three months with stores
and food for the native guard at the Telegraph Station.
Telegraph. —Chahbar is a telegraph station on the land line
from India to Cape Jashk. The telegraph line is double.
There is an old fort at Chahbar, 300 yards from the shore. Old fort.
It is square, with towers at the angles. Its condition is not
known.
* A report of June 1903 states that Chahbar is not naturally fitted for
the purpose of a large naval station, and that extensive engineering works
would be necessary.
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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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- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:12, 12a:12b, 13:62, 62a:62b, 63:78, 78a:78b, 79:86, 86a:86b, 87:88, 88a:88d, 89:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i, back
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