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1. IOR/L/MAR/A/III

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/III
Title:
Dragon: Fragment of Journal, William Keeling
Scope & Content:
The volume is part of the Marine Department Records Ships' Journals. It contains fragments of the first leaf of Captain William Keeling's journal composed in 1607 on board of the Dragon. The fragment covers the ship's outward voyage from the Downs and Plymouth. The Dragon made a voyage from Engl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1607-17 Apr 1607
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/MAR/A/VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/VIII
Title:
Hector: Fragment of Hawkins' journal
Scope & Content:
Fragment Journal of part of a journey on the third voyage of the East India Company on the Hector from Dellisha [Qalansiyah], a port town on the north coast of Socotra, to Surett [Surat], under Captain William Hawkins. The Journal consists of daily entries recording navigational information in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1608-19 Aug 1608
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/A/XX

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/XX
Title:
Clove: Journals on Clove (21 Feb 1617-15 Jun 1617, John Munden), Hector (28 Feb 1614-13 Jun 1615, John Munden, mate) and New Year's Gift (30 Jun 1614-16 Oct 1614, George Downton?)
Scope & Content:
Journal of the voyage of the Hector, Solomon, and New Year’s Gift from England to Bantam [Banten], Java, 28 February 1613 [New Style date 28 February 1614] to 15 June 1617, written by John Munden of the Hector ship. The journal contains daily entries with monthly columns. There are brief entries...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1614-15 Jun 1617
Extent:
1 volume (38 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR/B/544-I

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/544-I
Title:
Nassau: Journal
Scope & Content:
The journal of the East India Company ship Nassau is part of the Marine Department Records, Ships’ Journals. Inscribed: ‘This is my original Journal in my own hand writing Arthur Gore Witness J. Holland’. The logbook records the observations during the Nassau’s voyage from England towards India/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1781-30 Sep 1785
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/215
Title:
File 332/1912 'Sokotra: looting of the Kuala; Development of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and minutes relating to the looting of the SS Kuala by inhabitants of Socotra following its grounding off the coast of the island in November 1911. Some of the correspondence is included as enclosures, sometimes in the form of printed collect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1911-Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1460
Title:
Coll 1/24 'Aden Protectorate: status of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the status of Socotra [Suquṭrā], and a visit made by the Resident to the island and to the eastern borders of the Aden Protectorate. Papers dated 1926 consist of a text of the following questions asked by Viscount Sandon in the House of Commons: whether any Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1926-4 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1466
Title:
Coll 1/30 'Aden Protectorate: extension of the limit of the Red Sea Patrol to include the Gulf of Aden, Socotra and British Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding a suggestion by the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) that the limits of the Red Sea Patrol be extended to include the whole of the Gulf of Aden. The file includes correspondence received from the Board of the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1933-13 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:
Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (482 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B42
Title:
Memorandum by Lieutenant-General J. W. Schneider, C.B.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum from Sir John William Schneider, Politcal Resident at Aden, on British interests in Socotra. It includes opinions on Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchener's misapprehensions with regards to British influence at Socotra [Suquṭrā]; discusses the treaty or agreement concl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1886
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

10. IOR/R/15/1/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/176
Title:
'Book No 271' [Resident's Tour: Reports for 1858 and 1859]
Scope & Content:
The volume contains official tour reports of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, with supporting correspondence and papers, for the years 1858 and 1859. There is a title page within the volume stating : 'Head IX. Subject 2, Part 1. Resident's Tour. Reports fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1858-30 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)