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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Coaling-stations

1. IOR/L/PS/10/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/49
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Command...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B119
Title:
Memorandum by Sir W. Lee-Warner on the Lease to France of a Coaling Station in Muskat Territory - Statement of our Case (Political No. 1837/99).
Scope & Content:
A memorandum describing how it had emerged that the Sultan of Muskat had granted the French a concession to establish a coaling station on his territory, and stating that the Sultan had only produced the text of the concession upon threat of bombardment by the British. The memorandum goes on to d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1899
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B405

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B405
Title:
Henjam. Position and Rights of His Majesty's Government in the Island of Henjam. The Sheikh of Henjam and his Affairs
Scope & Content:
Memorandum providing an overview of the British connection with the island of Henjam. Covering: introduction to the location of Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] and its strategic importance; use of the island by the British; the Beni Yas tribe inhabitants; international status of Henjam – Persian and Muscat c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/58
Title:
File 21/2 'Coal Depot at Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, together with several cost estimates and a few maps, relating to the planning and construction of a new British coal depot at Bandar Shweikh [Shwaykh] in Kuwait. The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Kuwait and the Political Resident in the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1905-12 Jul 1917
Extent:
1 file (193 folios)