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File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying' [28r] (60/242)
The record is made up of 1 volume (119 folios). It was created in 1912-1914. 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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M.1«07R.
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11th Octobor 3
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Is roply to your latter of the «*th instent. No.
44060, containing a memoranrtun from ilavky
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
relative
to the replacement of the "Kilidi-Bahr", I am commanded by
ny Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to observe that
the description of this vessel as B a buoy to the lighthouse
at Fao" is unintelligible. The reference appears to be
to the light vessel on the outer baf of the Shatt-al-Arab,
1R miles distant from Fao, which, in a letter from K.M.
Consul at Basra, l«th Decenber 1011 (Foreign Office
reference ’IO.10R3/1R) was referred to as "the old Kilid
ol Bahr", and the Admiralty has no information that this
vessel has ever been replaced by another. In a telegram
from Lieutenant Colonel Sir P.Cox to the Covemnent of
^ India No,5171 of 11th February 1013 (repeated to Foreign
Office), it was stated that the Turkish Light,ship was in
imminent danger of foundering, find the suggestion was made
that some hulk of our own should be sent to act as light
Am soon as the new British light vessel is in
position (some ten miles outside the Outer Bar) the
necessity for any light vessel on the Outer Bar will
disappear, the gas buoy being then sufficient for the
purposes of navigation. The existing Turtrish vessel is
no doubt scheduled to come under the control of the Shatt-
el-Arab Navigation Comission, if and when established,
nder Secretary of State
Foreign Office
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could be lodged. Also discussed is the deployment of a Turkish lightship in the Shatt al-Arab, through the replacement of the old Turkish vessel ( Kilidi Bahr ) by a new lightship ( Jaffari ) and the ramifications of the correspondence with the Turkish Government about this matter. Dredging of various marine navigation channels by the Turkish Government is discussed. Part of these discussions and negotiations involved the creation of a Shatt al-Arab Navigation Commission.
The principal correspondents include the Viceroy (Charles Hardinge), 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; HM Ambassador to Constantinople (Sir Gerard Lowther); and HM Consul at Basrah (Francis Edward Crow).
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- 1 volume (119 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 119; 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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- File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 101r:118v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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