Reports concerning Gunboats
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 201-204
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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 27 Mar 1860. 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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Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 14 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 March 1860. The Enclosure is dated 11 February 1860. Received 30 April 1860.
The Enclosure consists of a report from the Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy, Commodore George Greville Wellesley, concerning the efficiency of gunboats that were required to be built by the Indian Navy, with particular reference to HM Gun Boat Clyde . A note on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the last folio of the Enclosure states that the report gives further evidence of the superiority of a fast light steam sloop to a gunboat for service at Zanzibar.
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 201-204
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- No. 14
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- 27 Mar 1860 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Zanzibar
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- Indian Navy, Commander-in-Chief
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- IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 201-204
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- Reports concerning Gunboats
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- 201r:204v
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