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'Military Report on The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's (South Iranian) Oilfield Area' [50r] (108/150)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1940. 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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APPENDIX VIII.
Country Craft.
The total country craft registered on the Tigris and Euphrates
are 5,560 comprising :—
Mahailas with a capacity varying from 5 to 150
tons with an average capacity of 50 tons .. 554
Bdlums with a capacity varying from 1 to 80
tons and an average capacity of from 5 to 10
tons • • • • • • •. .. 2,500
Miscellaneous Smaller Craft with a capacity of
less than 5 tons .. .. .. 2 506
No accurate statistics are available as to the distribution of
these craft on the Tigris and Euphrates, nor of the number
based on Basra.
No information is available as to the numbers that work up
the Karun, though they are believed to be considerable.
The Mahaila varies in length from 30 to 80 feet. It has an
average draught fully loaded of 3 to 4 feet, but the largest
Mahailas may draw up to 6 feet. It ie broad in the beam, has
one mast with a lateen sail, and is particularly noticeable’for a
high sheer forward and aft.
The Bellam is a long, narrow, double-ended, very shallow
draught, canoe-shaped craft, absolutely flat on the bottom and
with no keel. Fully loaded, it rarely draws more than 1' 6".
Both stem and stern are rounded and finished off with a curve.
The sheer is not so exaggerated as in the case of the mahaila.
Both types of craft are admirably adapted for the water in
which they have to work. A mahaila can do the journey from
Basra to Amara, 132 miles upstream, in four days under favour
able conditions, and with a suitable wind can do the return
journey in under twenty hours. Mahailas and bellums when
proceeding upsteram against wind and current and unable to
sail are towed by a long tow rope led from the stem through a
block at the mast head to the crew on the bank.
Mahailas were used during the Great War forfloaurg bridge
and are still so used in certain places in Iraq.
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Military report compiled at the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, and printed in Simla by The Manager, Government of India Press, 1940.
The volume begins with a preface (folio 3) in which notes on authorities consulted in compiling the report are given. The rest of the report is divided into nine chapters (I-IX), plus appendices, each covering a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter I: General Description of the Area
- Chapter II: Climate
- Chapter III: Population
- Chapter IV: Base Ports
- Chapter V: Lines of Communication and Transportation Facilities
- Chapter VI: Signal Communications
- Chapter VII: Economic Resources and Supplies
- Chapter VIII: Engineer and Ordnance Facilities
- Chapter IX: Medical Facilities
- Appendices
In a pocket at the back of the volume are the following maps and charts:
- Abadan and Bawarda (map) (folio 64)
- Naseri and Ahwaz, showing new bridge (map) (folio 65)
- Dar-i-Khazineh (map) (folio 66)
- Diagram of wireless communications (map) (folio 67)
- Sketch map showing flood water, February-March 1938 (folio 68)
- Road distance mileage chart (folio 69)
- Comparative bridge loading table (folio 70)
One of the maps listed in the contents is missing: 'Map of A. I. O. C. [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Central and Southern areas showing oilfields, pipelines, telephone and telegraph lines'.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 5-6) which refers to the volume's original pagination.
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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 71; 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 8ar, 8r:8v, 9ar, 9r:12v, 12av, 13ar, 13r:63v, 69r:70v, back-i
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