File 50/1914 Pt 10 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; Supply of Lighthouse Tender; the Nearchus' [‎38v] (81/470)

ENCLOSURE No. 2 Foreign' Office to India O ffice.
No 13,893.
Sir,
The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compli
ments to the Under Secretary of State for India, and, by direction of the
Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy* of the onder-mentioned paper.
Foreign Office,
9th February 1915.
* Treasury, 4th February, Lighthouse tender Xearrhns in Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Annex : —
No, 1937. Treasury Chambers,
Sir, 4th February 1915.
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
Sir \\ . Langley’s letter of the 19th ultimo (5491/15) and its enclosures, stating
that the initial cost of the lighthouse tender provided for service in the Persian
Gulf is now expected to amount to approximately 37,000/, instead of 30,000/.
as originally estimated, and the annual cost to 5,064/. against an original
estimate of 5,000/. 4
Their Lordships have already agreed to charge against Imperial funds one
half of an expenditure of 34,532/. in respect of the initial cost of the tender,
and they now direct me to state, for the information of Secretary Sir E. Grey,
that they are willing to accept, as a charge against those funds, a moiety of the
additional expenditure, within a limit of 2,500/., now proposed.
1 hey obseive that this amount includes a sum oi 5027.13s. 5 c/. for insurance
against war risks, but, while for their part they think that insurance against a
risk v hich w ould otheiwise fall upon the State is not as a rule an economical
course, they do not desire, as the expenditure has already been incurred, to
exclude this item from the above authority.
My Loids would be glad to be furnished with some explanation of the
causes of the increase in the estimate of recurring expenditure
r ,? ir 4L Grey wil1 r « collect that i» HH3 the Director-General of Stores of 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. stated that m the opinion of the Naval Architect the annual cost
o the vessels upkeep would be less than the 5,000Z. of the original estimate
(mde enclosures to the letter from your Department of 1 st September 1913,
iN'o. oo,ooo/13).
r f vi -y i r'l ^ f 11 j cVy 0 • •
1 he Ll £ ler Secl ;e‘yT of State, .) omn Bradbury,
.foreign Office.
ENCLOSURE No. 3 :—Copy Minute by the Naval Architect and Inspectinq
Engineer, dated Uh March 1915.
The present estimate of 5,6647. 2 s. 8 c/. appears to exceed the 5,000/. because
the estimate for the complement is 562/. more than the largest previous
estimate for complements The history of the estimates is as follows -
f- f r, 1 u ect0r ’ Indian Marine, in his letter of 18th January 1913
estimated the annual cost of upkeep at 6,450/., as follows : 3 ’
£
- 2,368
Pay of establishment
Provisions
Coal
Stores
Repairs
Miscellaneous
682 )
2,000 |
700 / 4,082/.
600 j
100 J
6,450
The officers apparently comprised Commander, two sub-lieutenants ounner
one engineer, two assistant engineers or drivers, and 48 crew all