"تقرير لجنة تحقيق بشأن الإنارة والعوّامات في الخليج الفارسي. ١٩٠٩" [و‎‎٢] (١٨/٣)

The Agents of the British India Steam Navigation Company, at Bunder
Abbas, Lingah, Debai, and Koweit are in the habit of exhibiting a light on
their premises when their steamers are expected.
His Majesty's ships sometimes arrange with officials of the Indo-European
Telegraph Stations at Bushire, Henjam, and Jask for a light to be hoisted
when they expect to arrive at night.
Proposed Scheme.
6. A comprehensive scheme of lighting the Gulf and its approach will
necessitate the establishment of lights at the following places taken in
geographical order : —
Muscat.
Musandam (Quoin).
Bunder Abbas.
Tanb.
Lingah.
Shaikh Shuaib.
Ras al Mutaf.
Bushire.
Shatt al Arab Bar.
Koweit.
Bahrein.
Debai.
The above list includes the lighting at all places recommended by the
Admiralty Conference with certain modifications (hereinafter detailed) for
Bushire, Bahrein, Koweit, and Bunder Abbas, and additional lights at Tanb,
Shaikh Shuaib, Ras al Mutaf, and Debai.
The object in view has been to provide lights at the most important
salient points and outlying dangers for general guidance in the navigation
of the Gulf and at the principal ports.
The lights at Tanb, Shaikh Shuaib, and. Ras al Mutaf are considered to be
very necessary. They have an incidental advantage in completing an
approximately equi-distant chain of lights.
Muscat.
A 20-mile light on the summit of Ras Muscat, which has an elevation of
240 feet above high-water, is recommended as combining efficiency with
greatest economy. This proposal is made after consideration of the following
points :—
1. The entrance to Muscat harbour is remarkably blind, but the coast in
the vicinity is bold and free from outlying dangers.
2. The requirements of the port would be fulfilled by a low-placed light
of moderate power to indicate the entrance of the harbour.
3. From a navigational point of view Fisher's Rock offers an ideal site,
but the cost of a safe structure, even for a small light, in such an
exposed position would be very heavy.
1 he alternative site on Ras Muscat is therefore recommended. Com
pared with Fisher's Rock a light on Ras Muscat is less favourably placed in
thick weather, which, however, is not frequent, and it is cables inside the
outlying danger; on the other hand it would serve the double purpose of a