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'Lighting and Buoying of the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928' [51r] (5/6)
The record is made up of 1 file (3 folios). It was created in 29 Aug 1928. 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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and a predominant British trade. Piracy has been suppressed, the slave
trade has been abolished, the waters have been lighted and buoyed and
order has been preserved by the exertions of Great Britain.”
24. So far as lighting and buoying is concerned, it has always been the
aim of His Majesty’s Government to maintain their supremacy against
foreign encroachment, and it is on the efficiency of the service and the lack
of alternative organisation, together with the desirability of unified control,
that the strongest arguments for the continuance of the present arrangements
can be based.
25. The main avenues for possible encroachment by the Persian
Government appear to be (a) the Shatt-el-Arab and Abadan, (b) the places
such as Bushire, Henjam, Sheikh Shuaib, Ac., on the Persian side of the
Gulf, (c) the islands and ports on the Arabian side to which Persia lays
claim, or the status of which is indeterminate (see Memorandum on Status
of certain Groups of Islands, on page
26. J'he
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the Gidf has reported that the subject
is one in which the Persian authorities have recently shown interest, and
that they have spoken to him on the subject of the buoys at Bushire
He adds—
“ The latter [the Bushire buoys] might be within the power of
control of the Italian officer who is to be in charge of their new
Preventive Service Launch, but the main question of lighting and
buoying is beyond their capacity, and they could probably not pay
for, nor would the} 7, efficiently keep up, a lightship such as that at
Kais island. It is quite certain that we could not willingly leave
our shipping to be dependent upon the vagaries of a Persian system
of lighthouses. The danger would be too great, and the Persian has
got to show greater capacity for organisation and maintenance before
we could agree to such a proposal.”
27. The Government of India have indicated that in their view
retention by His Majesty’s Government of responsibility for the lighting
and buoying of the Gulf is indispensable.
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.
, m. J. C.
29th August 1928.
3074
[APPENDIX.
A
B
Letter 2758 from
Pol. Res. to G. of I.,
July 21 1928,
P. 4482.
Tel. from Viceroy,
July 23 1928,
P.G. 9.
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Document providing a history of lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Covering:
- first reconstruction: 1909-14 – assessment, programme of reconstruction; obstructive activities of the Turkish authorities, detail of buoys and lighthouses placed, and parts of the programme not completed;
- expansion: 1914-25 – including extensions to the original programme, and an overhaul of beacons;
- administration and finance – including light dues, responsibility for the cost of the service, the Government of India's role in administration and maintenance, and the creation of a Lighting and Buoying Fund;
- relations with Persia – listing occasions during the British management of the Lighting and Buoying Service when His Majesty's Government came into collision with the Persian Government;
- conclusions.
It also includes an appendix listing lights, buoys, and beacons present at the time of writing (1928).
Written by M J Clauson of the 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. .
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 49, and terminates at f 51, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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