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1. IOR/R/15/6/298-331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/298-331
Title:
File 9: Naval and Shipping
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series 'Naval and Shipping' covers the movements, facilities, protocols, and regulation of shipping at Muscat, other Omani ports, and within the Persian Gulf. Subjects covered by the file, include: Movements of British Naval vessels and officers Movements of foreign vessels Visits of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
1923-1952
Extent:
34 files (1660 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/211-228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/211-228
Title:
File 5 Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:
The Naval and Marine files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain files concerning: ports and anchorages at Bahrain; movements of British naval ship and non-military ships in the Persian Gulf; visits of United States naval vessels to Bahrain; lighting and buoying; the establishment of the Jufai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1949
Extent:
18 files (901 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/129
Title:
File 2/2 II Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memoranda, confidential papers, personal letters and testimonies related to alleged smuggling of food and goods from Kuwait to Iraq. The correspondence includes two unsuccessful proposals for conferences to be held between Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials to discuss the limits of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1934-28 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/650
Title:
FLYING OF FLAGS BY COMPANIES AND PRIVATE PERSONS IN BAHRAIN.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the request from African and Eastern (Near East) Limited to Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent, Bahrain, to fly the shipping company's house flag over their office when there is a ship in port. The Political Agent inquired to the Political Resident Persian Gulf, who ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1948-1 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/78
Title:
File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit). The papers notably cover/include the following: The est...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1906-27 Nov 1916
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/128
Title:
File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/713

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/713
Title:
‘File 28/22-I Mission of S.O.(I) [Staff Officer Intelligence] Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file’s papers relate to the appointment and activities of the Security Officer (initially referred to as a Staff Officer Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the file are the Security Officer at Bahrain (Captain C G Campbell) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1941-29 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/777

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/777
Title:
‘File 29/21 i FOOD SUPPLIES (RICE)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and telegrams about the efforts made to obtain supplies of rice for consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain and Dubai. British officials in the Middle East and Bahrain Government officials discuss the procurement of rice surpluses from Iraq and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1943-10 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (213 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/778
Title:
‘File 29/21 vol ii FOOD SUPPLIES RICE’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Dubai and the other Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, also Qatar, at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). Rice and whea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 May 1945-30 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)