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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [17] (23/114)
The record is made up of 56 folios. It was created in 1903. 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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khor-asii-shem—khasab.
17
For purposes of control of the Gulf entrance the position is Suitability
very good. ag naval
The climate from July to September is very frying to
Europeans, (The Eastern Telegraph Company had to abaudon
their station on Telegraph Island in 1869 owing to the heat.)
Apait from the climate, however, Ivhor-ash-Shem would
make a very good naval and coaling station, if properly
equipped with piers, sheds, lighters, &c.
The entrance could be defended by one or two forts or bv Defence
mines.
iVWe.—The special report quoted above does not deal with
the question of land defence. - As far as it is possible to iudo-e
iiom Chart ^53, it would not be difficult to cover the harbour
and the isthmus of Maklab from an attack from the S.
It is suggested, with reserve, that the main weakness of the
laiboui would be its liability to naval attack from the E., unless
tlie deep inlets on tlicit side were strongly defended..
KHASAB.
{See Admiralty Charts 753 and 2837 a.)
Ivhasab Bay is about 3 miles W. of the entrance to Khor-
ash-Shem.
The town of Ivhasab lies in the wide valley S. of the bay a
little distance from the shore, '
The population of the valley is about 600.
A Willi of the Sultan of Maskat resides here. He has little
direct authority, his position being rather that of a consul than
of a governor.
For distances, see Khor-ash-Shem. Distances
The bay lies between projecting headlands, which shelter it Anchoraee
Ironi the prevailing winds ; it is about 1 mile wide, open to
the N. A
The anchorage is good.
Jke j'est landing place is at the W. end of the sandy beach Landing
which forms the S. shore of the bay. place.
I 2fi291.
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Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Report, 1898.
There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.
Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
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- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:12, 12a:12b, 13:62, 62a:62b, 63:78, 78a:78b, 79:86, 86a:86b, 87:88, 88a:88d, 89:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i, back
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