File 1265/1907 ‘Persian Gulf:- Wireless Stations'

Content

The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about proposals for the establishment of wireless telegraph stations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bahrain, Bushire, Debai [Dubai] and Zora near Ajman instead of Kuwait. The main correspondents are the following: ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office, 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. and the Admiralty in London; the Viceroy and Governor General of India in Council and his senior officials at both the Foreign Department and the Marine Department of the Government of India in Calcutta and Simla [Shimla]; the Commander-in-Chief, HM Ships and Vessels, East Indies Squadron (also referred to as the Naval Commander-in-Chief) and the Commander and Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division. They also discuss arms control and relations with the chiefs of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. shaikhdoms, the drafting of a Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. conferring on the Bahrain Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. jurisdiction over British subjects and foreigners in Bahrain, and the cost of establishing a Vice-Consulate at Lingah. Included in the correspondence is a report of a naval coastal survey of the Khor (inlet) at Zora near Ajman together with a navigational plan of the entrance to the Al Ajman and Zora Khors, made in 1911.

Extent and format

1 volume (213 folios)

It is grouped into

‘PLAN OF THE ENTRANCE TO AL ANJMAN & ZORA KHORS Surveyed by Lieutenant G. L. Hodson & Sub-Lieut. Champness JUNE 1911 H.M.S. Fox’

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/118, f 14

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1265 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Wireless Stations) consists of one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 213; 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. A previous foliation sequence has been partially superseded and therefore crossed out. The front cover and a preceding flyleaf have not been foliated.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/118

Former external reference(s)

P 1265/1907

History of this record

Date(s)

1904-1912 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Wireless telegraphy

Places

Zora

People & organisations

Foreign OfficePolitical Resident, Persian GulfGovernment of India, Commerce DepartmentGovernment of India, Foreign and Political DepartmentGovernment of India, Marine Department

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