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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Name Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, 1822-1971

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/35
Title:
‘Vol 37, 38, 40 Letters inward and outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a mix of inward and outward letters, received and sent from the Residency. Most of the letters are outward letters, sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to various representatives of the Government of Bombay. The letters in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1825-23 Dec 1825
Extent:
1 volume, 59 items (92 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/119-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/119-144
Title:
Subject compilations: letters received and letters sent
Scope & Content:
From 1850 onwards letters received and letters sent were arranged under general subject headings, e.g. Arabian Coast and Persian Gulf, Slave Trade, Commercial and General etc; correspondence in each section was then bound chronologically. Separate volumes of secret correspondence and Native lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1850-1855
Extent:
26 volumes

4. IOR/R/15/1/191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/191
Title:
Agreements with the Trucial Chiefs and also with the Chiefs of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This volume contains originals and copies of correspondence between Major Adelbert Cecil Talbot, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and Her British Majesty's Consul General for Fars; Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Secretary to the Government of India; Muḥammad Amīn bin Badr, temporary Residency ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1891-2 May 1900
Extent:
1 volume (71 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/228
Title:
File 5/193 IV (B 55) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence relating to slavery and the slave trade. The first portion of the volume consists of correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle), the Political Agent Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Senior Naval Office...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1938-18 Jul 1939
Extent:

1 volume (276 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/231
Title:
'File 5/197 I – Absconding of Slaves from Sharja and Henjam'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to two specific incidents of Arab slaves absconding to the Persian territory of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām]. The first incident took place in March 1930, when four slaves absconded from Umm al Qaiwain to Jazīreh-ye Hengām, pursued by a group of armed Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
22 Mar 1930-3 Feb 1934
Extent:

1 volume (202 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/247
Title:
14/88 II B 30 Tanb Island
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in London, Delhi, Bushire, Bahrain, Sharjah, and Tehran over the status of several islands in the Gulf: Tanb [Greater Tumb], Little Tanb [Lesser Tumb], Abu Musa and Sirri [Jazīreh-ye Sīrrī]. The main correspondents are the Senior Naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1912-15 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/248
Title:
14/88 III B 33 Tamb Island
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the islands of Bahrain, Tanb (also written as Tamb) [Greater and Lesser Tumb] and Abu Musa in the context of the Persian claim to these islands. The main correspondents are Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf; Political Resident Persian Gulf (Trenchard...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934-25 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/253

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/253
Title:
14/115 I Abu Musa and Tamb. 1903-1904.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning Persian claims to sovereignty over the islands of Sirri, Abu Musa and Tunb [Greater and Lower Tumb] and the competing claim of the Shaikh of Sharjah. Correspondence discusses the erecting of flagstaffs by the Persians and also the Belgians. Correspondents include the Sec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1902-5 Aug 1905
Extent:
1 volume (141 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/264
Title:
14/115 XI B 54 Abu Musa Oxide
Scope & Content:
This file is a collection of correspondence between British officials in London, Delhi, Bushire, Bahrain, Sharjah and Teheran over the rights to mine red oxide on Abu Musa, an island in the Gulf claimed by Sharjah. The main correspondents are: India Office, Whitehall (John Gilbert Laithwaite); S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1935-31 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)