Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
IOR/L/MAR/C/909
- Record Id:
- 040-002707650
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-001114483
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022551646.0x0003ac
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116504526.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MAR/C/909
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Papers.
- Scope & Content:
-
The volume contains a collection of miscellaneous East India Company (and India Office) papers on 'Marine' matters, including correspondence, memoranda, committee papers, minutes, lists, notes, and extracts.
The papers cover: Indian Navy (IN) matters (including constitution and government of the IN, teaching of naval gunnery, recruitment, midshipmen, shipbuilding at Bombay, and the legality of ships of the IN carrying merchandise); batta [officers' allowances]; the need for more regular communications between Bombay and the Persian Gulf; Madras (duties of the office of Master Attendant, and the Marine Board); lascars and native seamen; the award of service medals for the Persian and Burmese wars; pilots; native servants; lists of Marine Department charges at Aden in 1850; appointment of Agents; remarks on the steam route via the Cape of Good Hope; the cost of machinery for a steam factory at Bombay; and miscellaneous matters.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001104325
036-001114483
040-002707650 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MAR : Marine Department Records
IOR/L/MAR/C : Marine Miscellaneous Records
IOR/L/MAR/C/909 : Miscellaneous Papers. - Hierarchy:
- 032-001104325[0003]/036-001114483[0955]/040-002707650
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MAR
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (187 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022551646.0x0003ac
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1786
- End Date:
- 1860
- Date Range:
- 1786-1860
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 183; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. One additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-183; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Arrangement:
- There is a brief index to subjects on folios 2-3. This refers to the (faint) page numbers of the printed pagination sequence commencing on folio 4. The papers are not in any chronological order.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)