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File 815/1917 Pt 7 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting and Buoying. Lighthouse Tender, and Despatch Vessel.' [309r] (317/567)
The record is made up of 1 item (282 folios). It was created in 24 Mar 1921-4 Nov 1929. 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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Minute Paper.
Department.
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'& t ^. O" l £~
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P.144/25.
IV.
x The letter
admitted that the
vessel is probably
used "politically"
on the Arabian mere
than on the Persian
coast, and hinted
that tne Imperial
share might fairly
be borne on the 0.0.
Vote as well as
on the P.O.Vote,
though this was
a. matter beyond
tbe I.O.’s purview.
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p . 505/25.
27.
77l 'B 3000 11/24
/ ^ S c^M. f (JL,<sC, Gr Jt. Oit/U* /y Uf.
jmau&saaA. the amount te mr realize^was unknown.^
A few months later, and before the Foreign Office
replied sne was sold, for the exiguous sum of Rs,
30,510 or £2000. The Secretary of State did not
however modify the above offer.)
That the fourth part of the annual charges on
account of the Lavrrence remaining as a "political"
i o6m ex psnditure alter the allocation of the
other three-quarters to "lighting and buoying",
should be divided in future between Indian and
Imperial Revenues - the proportions applicable to
other items of political expenditure in Persia and
tne Persian G-uli • Tne Secretary of State was
however willing todefer division of this fourth
part, and to defray the whole of it from Indian
Revenues,uill such date as the burden of the other
three-fourths should be transferred ’from the shoulders
Ox Government to those of the shipping community.
It was stipulated that the four parts of this
proffered arrangement were interdependent, and that
the offer should be accepted or rejected en bloc .
On the 20th February 1925 "the Foreign Office
replied accepting, provisionally, the allocation of
tnree-fourths ol the cost of the Lawrence as a fsir
charge on the lighting service and by implication
agreeing to the division of this portion between
Indian and Imperial Revenues.
The Foreign Office did "not feel able to invite"
xhe Treasury to reconsider their view (see para.23)
as to the division of the cost of equipping the
Lawrence as lighthouse tender.
As a result they rejected the offer of the
government of India to compromise their claim in
respect of the initial cost of the'Lawrence*.
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This part contains interdepartmental correspondence and memoranda relating to lighting and buoying in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Notable topics of discussion include the following:
- Changes to RIMS Nearchus and its personnel (referred to as its 'revised permanent establishment')
- Proposed new arrangements for financing lighting and buoying in the Gulf
- Proposed alterations to RIMS Lawrence , to enable it to carry out lighting and buoying work in place of Nearchus and in addition to its present duties
- The sale of Nearchus to the Basra Port Directorate
- The estimated cost of alterations to and the upkeep of Lawrence for the performance of its duties as both the despatch vessel for the 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. and the lighthouse tender in the Gulf, and how this cost should be shared between British Indian and Imperial revenues
- The cost of a replacement vessel while Lawrence undergoes its annual refit
- Plans for all expenditure relating to lighting and buoying in the Gulf to be recovered by dues on shipping using the lights from 1 November 1925 onwards
- The proposed replacement of Lawrence by Nearchus as lighthouse tender in the Gulf.
The principal correspondents are as follows: the Viceroy of India; the Secretary of State for India; the Director of the Royal Indian Marine; officials 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. , the Foreign Office, the Admiralty, the Government of India's Marine Department, the Government of India's Department of Commerce, and the Indo-European Telegraph Department ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Section).
Also included are statements of expenditure for Nearchus and a précis of correspondence concerning Lawrence.
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- File 815/1917 Pt 7 'Persian Gulf:- Lighting and Buoying. Lighthouse Tender, and Despatch Vessel.'
- Pages
- 150r:198v, 199ar, 200r:227v, 229r:284v, 285ar, 286r:340r, 341r:434v
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