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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [330v] (663/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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514 PORTS AND INLAND TOWNS
Number
on plan
Name
Length
in feet
Minimum
depth of water
in feet
Berths
Details
Lighter Berth
1,000
4
Shed. Light cranes.
1-2
Grain Wharves
1,000
23-24
2
No shed. Light cranes.
3-8
Main Wharves
3,000
25
6
2 warehouses adjacent.
Sheds and warehouses.
9
New wharf
(490-525
each)
500
25
1
Light cranes.
Warehouse. Light
10
R.A.F. No. 7
550
26
1
cranes.
No shed. Light cranes.
Ammunition
400
4
? below R.A.F. No. 7.
11
Wharf
New wharves
650
18
1
No shed.
250 ft. of deep water
12
400
3 °
1
only. No cranes. No
shed.
Heavy crane. No quay
13
3 i 5
i?
1
facilities.
Personnel landing only.
Sheds and Warehouses. The Main Wharves are backed by a line
of six large open sheds, and a seventh shed has been moved from the
Main Wharves to the Lighter Berth. Five of the sheds are Brady
sheds averaging 490x75 feet; two are smaller. Their total area is
about 228,000 sq. feet. Behind the sheds there are nine warehouses
for bonded goods, &c. These vary in size from 110X35 ^ eet t0
400x80 feet, and their total area is about 157,000 sq. feet.
The 1939 grain storage capacity in the 30-40 open plots of the grain
sief was 200,000 tons.
Cranage. The 1939 establishment consisted of 15 electric travelling
cranes of i|-8 tons capacity on the main wharves and 3 steam cranes
and 1 hand crane of 5 tons in the transit area. Since then cranage
has increased. Light cranes of i|-2, 3, 5, and 8 tons predominate,
and there were 27 of these distributed along the deep and inter
mediate depth quays in 1944, of which only 2 were 8-ton cranes.
The lighter berth had 7 light cranes and one 15-ton crane in 1944.
The only heavy crane on a quay was the 6o-ton crane at No. 12 berth.
There was a 75-ton derrick in the Marine Dockyard. In 1939 there
was a floating crane of 30 tons.
Grain was man-handled; 2,000 tons could be landed in 24 hours at
each berth in 1939.
Workshops and Power Station. The port engineering workshop is
downstream of the R.A.F. area. It has no docking facilities, but can
repair ocean-going steamers. The Mesopotamia and Persia Corpora
tion, Ltd., have slipways and a similar repair workshop at Ashar.
The power station is south-east of the port workshop. The total
output is 1,065 kW.
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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