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Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).' [35v] (75/133)
The record is made up of 1 file (63 folios). It was created in Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942. 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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(4) Government Establishments
There is no naval dockyard or repair base.
(5) Commercial Establishments
There are no supplies of coal, but about 2,200 gallons of Diesel oil and 3,500 gallons of
gas oil are kept. The Anglo Iranian Oil Company maintains a small depot of petrol and
paraffin at a cove in RIYAM Bay. The average quantities of stocks kept are :—
Petrol 6,000 gallons.
Kerosene 12,000 gallons.
Small stocks are also kept in MUSCAT.
A supply of petrol and oil is maintained by the R.A.F. at the old coal depot at MAKALLA,
approximately 20,000 gallons of petrol and 1,000 gallons of mineral oil.
(7) Air Facihties (see also Section IV (3) )
The R.A.F. landing ground is at BEIT AT FELEJ, 4 miles west of MUSCA1 town,
with which it is connected by road. There are a number of R.A.F. landing grounds in the
territory of the Sultan and an Air Facilities Agreement exists which gives facilities to British
aircraft.
The harbour has a sheltered anchorage for seaplanes. Three seaplane buoys have been
established north-west of FORT MIRANT
A detachment of four airmen is maintained permanently at MUSCAT to attend to the
wants of any aircraft that may call there.
Stocks of oil and petrol are maintained.
(8) War Material Factories
None.
(9) Power Plants
A small electric light plant has recently been installed in MUSCAT, behind the Customs
House. At present it is used only by the Customs and a few private individuals.
(10) Transport Facilities
No railway. MUSCAT is a port of call for the B.I.S.N. Co.’s subsidiary weekly mail
service, and other companies such as Stricks, Ellerman City and Hansa lines call approximately
monthly.
A motor road now exists between MUSCAT and MATRAH with an extension inland
to BEIT AL FELEJ, a distance of 5 miles. One coastal road is completed to the north as
far as SHINAS, suitable for light cars only, and one towards SUR. This latter is only suitable
for wheeled traffic for 5| miles (as far as RUWI).
Inland transport is carried on by means of pack animals and is expensive and difficult,
with only one pass, through the rugged hills surrounding the town, to the interior.
(11) Signal Communications
A W/T station exists at MUSCAT belonging to the R.A.F., which works with BAGHDAD
and BASRA and with sloops.
C. & W., Ltd. Station. Telegraphy and telephony fixed, interior service.
MUSCAT is connected by cable direct to KARACHI and to BUSHIRE, and is a
“ repeater ” station. The Cable Office is just westward of the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
.
A private telephone line exists from the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at MUSCAT to the MUSCAT
Levies barracks at BEIT AL FELEJ.
(12) Defences
There are no modern defences of any kind. Old Portuguese forts exist at MIRANI
(Western) and JALALI (Eastern) heads of Muscat Cove, on the eastern end of SIRA AL
GHARBI and two on either side of the beach at the head of Matrah bay. JALALI is used
as a prison.
The forts are “ armed ” with numerous muzzle-loading cannon, only six of which are
safe to fire, and these form the saluting battery at Fort Mirani.
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- Content
This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps, plans and photographs that are contained in the report. There then follows a small amount of correspondence between 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. , War Office, and General Staff (India) officials regarding the supply of an earlier issue of the report, dated 1939.
The second part of the file consists of the actual report, entitled 'C.B. 1892 (X) (10/41) Arabia Intelligence Report', dated October 1941, with appended maps, plans and photographs relating to Arabian Peninsula ports. The report is divided into four sections (six sections are listed in the table of contents, which lists sections one and three, most of section two, and one part of section five, as 'not issued', i.e. not printed in this edition of the report).
The first section to appear in the report is entitled 'Section II: Strategy and Tactics'; parts 1 and 3-6 of this section have been omitted, leaving part 2, which has the heading 'Possible Lines on which War Plans would be Framed'.
The next section, 'Section IV: Geography and Topography', provides an overview of the geography and topography of the Arabian Peninsula, including information about climate, transport facilities (including a table of landing grounds and seaplane anchorages), and communications.
The third section, 'Section V: Base Facilities and Maintenance of the Fleet' (from which part one has been omitted), provides a summary of principal commercial dockyards and repair bases, locations for fuel storage, supplies and storage of ammunition, fixed coastal defences, and aircraft.
The final section of the report, 'Section VI: Ports, Anchorages and Their Defences', proceeds through a number of Gulf ports in alphabetical order (i.e. Akaba, Bahrain, Doha, Hodeida and Ras Kethib, Jedda, Kamaran, Kuwait, Mukalla, and Muscat), describing each place's port facilities, anchorages and defences, as well as providing other information relating to matters such as government, commerce, water supply, transport and communications.
Enclosed with the maps and plans is a symbols chart, which lists some of the symbols used in the maps and plans.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (63 folios)
- Arrangement
The Arabia Intelligence Report contains a table of contents. The maps, plans and photographs, which are listed below the table of contents, appear after the main text of the report.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The file is formed of two parts. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover of the first part at 1 and terminates at the inside back cover of the second part at 65; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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.
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- Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:9v, front-a, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-a-i, 11r:39v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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