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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [64] (72/114)
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.
British tele- The telegraph station is situated in a conspicuous position,
graph station. abou t half-a-milo S. of the town. It i S maintained by the
Indo-European ielegraph Department. The station compound
is ^0 yards square, and is surrounded by a wire fence.
Ihe office is fine stone building, with a flat roof, and a small
tower on the L. side. The roof has a parapet about 2 feet
high, and would be utilised for defence in case of necessity.
liiree stone barrack rooms (apparently in the main buildino r )
accommodate the native guard, and could hold 75 men.
There are several mat huts outside the building.
c5
Staff and Guard. —The staff consists of the clerk in charge
and two assistants. The native guard consists of 50 men from
one of the Bombay native regiments, under a native officer.
Stores, Pood, Ammunition, ^fc.—About 6,000
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, stores
and food for the guard, and about 17,000 rounds of ammunition
are kept in the main building.
Water Supply—The water for the station is obtained from
four wells (two fresh and two brackish), situated together almost
half-a-mile E. of the compound.
Water for washing is pumped from here to a store tank in the
compound, holding about 10 tons. The drinking water is
Crirried to the compound on bullocks. The provision of another
tank for drinking water appears to be desirable, as, at present,
in case of attack, the water supply would probably be cut off.
Wells sunk close to the sea are brackish.
GWADAH.
{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.
.)
Gwadar is on the Makran (Mekran) coast, E. of the Persian
boundary. Together Avith the surrounding district it has been
a possession of the Sultan of Maskat (Oman) since the end of
the 18th century. The population in 1898 was about 5,000.
A considerable trade is carried on with Maskat, the Persian
Uuli, and Indian ports.
G wadar is of importance as a cable station.
There is a British Resident.
Passage
distances.
The approximate distance of Gwadar from—
G a p^ Jashk - _ - is 2(50 miles.
Chahbar - - . irn
Karachi - " .,- 7 "
Maskat ^ 225 "
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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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