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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/1/130

71. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 104-06

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 104-06
Title:
Letter no.101 from Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Robinsons reports of his proceeding from Bushire to the pearl banks on the Arab Coast, where there were no disturbances amongst the pearling fleets. Robinson writes of his meeting with the Hajee Yacoob, the British agent at Sharjah, with whom he discusses recent violations of the Maritime Truce.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1852
Extent:
3 folios

72. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 107-08

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 107-08
Title:
Letter no.102 from Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Persian Gulf Squadron, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Robinson offers more details on his meeting with the Hajee Yacoob, the British agent at Sharjah. He writes in detail of a collision between two pearling boats from Debaye [Dubai] and Khaun, in which several men were injured with swords; a dispute arising from a slave that had absconded from an Ab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1852
Extent:
2 folios

73. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 109-12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 109-12
Title:
Letter no.207 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Kemball acknowledges receipt of Robinson's two previous letters (ff 104-106, 107-108) and comments on each of the individual Maritime Truce violations reported to him by Robinson and the Native Agent at Sharjah. Kemball suggests that Robinson visit Ra's al-Khaymah and Muscat in person, in order t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1852
Extent:
4 folios

74. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 115-16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 115-16
Title:
Letter no.232 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a report from Commodore Robinson, on his recent excursion to Rusel Khymah [Ra's al-Khymah] to make enquiries about the act of piracy committed by one of his subject's boats in Zanzibar. Kemball also writes of the grounding of a merchant vessel at Sharjah (the Centaur) and the sub...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1852
Extent:
2 folios

75. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 117-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 117-20
Title:
Letter no.228 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Commodore George Robinson, Commanding Indian Naval Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Letter acknowledging receipt of Robinson's reports on his enquires regarding the act of piracy committed at Zanzibar (see ff 101-103). Kemball also comments on investigations into the maltreatment of the Sharjah British agent's servants (ff 115-116), instructing Robinson to issue orders to Lt Tro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1852
Extent:
4 folios

76. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 127-28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 127-28
Title:
Letter no.3160 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Covering letter with an enclosure: letter no.2968 of 1852 (f 128) from Malet to Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and HC's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat, dated 3 July 1852. In the enclosure, Malet writes with reference to the recent grounding and plunder of the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1852
Extent:
2 folios

77. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 129-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 129-30
Title:
Letter no.14 of 1852 from Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and Honourable Company's Agent in the Dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muskat, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Hamerton reports on the grounding of the British ship Centaur, which occurred in thick fog on 4 May 1852. He states that the next morning the 'natives' threatened to kill all crew if they did not leave the vessel. The crew arrived 'destitute' at the Muscat Agency on 19 May. The Centaur is reporte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1852
Extent:
2 folios

78. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 131-32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 131-32
Title:
Letter no.3159 of 1852 from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, to Major Atkins Hamerton, HM's Consul and HC's Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of a representation made by the owners and underwriters of the lost British ship Centaur. Malet requests that Hamerton enlist the help of the Imam of Muscat in identifying and punishing the perpetrators of the Centaur's plundering, and recovering any of the cargo of indigo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1852
Extent:
2 folios

79. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 134-35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 134-35
Title:
Letter from the underwriters of the cargo of the British ship Centaur, to Charles Allen, Secretary to the Government of India
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a narrative from Captain Salmon, describing the loss and plunder of the Centaur. The narrative states that the Centaur was sailing from Calcutta to Bushire and Bassorah [Basra], and carrying rice, sugar, and 1645 chests of indigo. At the end of the narrative is a list of the insu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1852
Extent:
2 folios

80. IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 136-38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/130, ff 136-38
Title:
Letter no.265 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to Government Bombay
Scope & Content:
Kemball writes that he has contacted his agents, the Arab coast chiefs, and the Prince Governor of Fars, enlisting their help in the recovery of indigo from the plundered British ship Centaur.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1852
Extent:
3 folios

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