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ADM 127/49

Movements of ships and vessels of East India Company: Provision reports and accounts: letters to and from Senior Officer., 1829 Jan. 7 - 1829 July 21

This file contains letters covering a period from January to July 1829. The letters are addressed to the Resident in the Persian Gulf Major D Wilson, and are from various naval officers, including J M Guy, J Pepper, and J C Hawkins. The letters cover a range of topics, including: the arrival and movements of ships in the Gulf, details of bills drawn on the Residency, reports of provisions, details of letters for transmission and reports of piracy. It also contains letters in Arabic along with translations.

ADM 127/50

Movements of ships: Actions against pirates and raiders., 1829

This file contains letters covering a period from March 1829 to August 1933. They are addressed to the Residents in the Persian Gulf during this period, D Wilson, S Hennell (Assistant in Charge), and D A Blane, and are mostly from the Commander and Senior Officer of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf, a post occupied during this period by W S Collinson, H Wyndham and J Pepper. The letters cover a range of topics, including the movements of ships in the Gulf, the conveyance of letters and actions taken against pirates and raiders.

ADM 127/58

Letters of Persian Gulf Squadron on acts of piracy and slave trading: suppression of slave trade by ships and vessels of East India Company, 1855

This file contains letters from the Resident in the Persian Gulf Captain A B Kemball, the Assistant Resident Lieutenant H F Disbrowe and the Acting Resident Commander J F Jones. They are mostly addressed to the Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf Commodore G Robinson, his successor Commodore R Ethersey and the Senior Officer of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf Lieutenant A Foulerton, but there are also some written to the commanders of individual vessels and to local Rulers.
ADM 127/56

Movements of vessels of East India Company and Bushire Residency Squadron, 1854

This file contains letters exchanged between the Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron Commodore G Robinson and the Resident in the Persian Gulf Captain A B Kemball, as well as between Captain Kemball and the commanders of various vessels. They cover a range of topics, including the movement of British shipping in the Gulf, including that of the Bushehr Residency Squadron; the conveyance of money, despatches and packets to various destinations; and the suppression of the slave trade.