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File 50/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying; General Arrangements' [34r] (72/396)
The record is made up of 1 file (194 folios). It was created in 1911-1912. 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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adjustment ‘before being despatched :.o the Gulf, to which
she could be towed by the Lighthouse tender which it is
£9,500
proposed to construct
The cost of the Vessel is estimated at Line thousand,
Five hundred pounds, including deliverer to its destination,
but the Elder Brethren desire to point out that this
figure is liable to variation in consequence of the fre
quent and considerable changes which take place in the cost
of shipbuilding.
The intensity of the light would be 40,000 candles,
and the range of visibility eleven miles
Buoy s, lig hted .
Either Oil^gas or acetylene would be suitable illu-
minants for the proposed lighted buoys, out in view oi
the fact that the number of buoys required at Stations is
only six, the expenditure which would be involved in
establishing oil-gas producing plant, and fitting the
lighthouse tender with transport receivers, gas compressing
pumps, &c. would in the opinion of the KLder Brethren
//v4 £"
hardly he justified, and they accordingly recommend^the six
buoys be of the same type as the acetylne lighted buoy
already established at 3 hatt-al-Arab which was constructed
the International Karine Signal Company, and is Known a
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This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures of the new navigation aids for ships. A minority of the papers document some geo-political concerns regarding the presence of Turkish ships in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Ottoman State's possible intention to maintain a permanent presence in the Gulf.
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- 1 file (194 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 196; 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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- IOR/L/PS/10/438
- Title
- File 50/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying; General Arrangements'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:176v, 178r:182v, 184r:195v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence