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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject River navigation Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/272
Title:
File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/804
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVER CRAFT (1919.)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia, exchanged between 9 May and 20 December 1919, after the conclusion of the First World War. It contains material relating to: The centralisation of the disposal of all small miscellaneous craft in the Ministry of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-20 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3802

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3802
Title:
Coll 30/86(1) 'PERSIA. RELATIONS WITH IRAQ. SHATT-EL-ARAB: INTERNATIONALISATION OF, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONSERVANCY BOARD.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the drafting of a convention to establish a Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab). The papers include: negotiations with the governments of Iraq and Persia [Iran]; the involvement of British shipowners in discussions; numerous drafts o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jul 1932-10 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 volume (592 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3803
Title:
Coll 30/86(2) 'Persia. Relations with Iraq. Shatt-el-Arab: Internationalisation of, and establishment of a Conservancy Board.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over a convention to establish a Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab) between the governments of Iraq, Iran (also referred to as Persia), and the United Kingdom. The convention had two main objects: (1) to provide for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1935-22 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 volume (468 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3804
Title:
Coll 30/86(3) 'PERSIA. Relations with Iraq: Shatt-el-Arab. Establishment of an International Conservancy Board.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the possibility of establishing an international Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab) between the governments of Iraq, Iran (also referred to as Persia), and the United Kingdom. The board was intended to ensure the efficient maintenan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1937-5 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (329 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B75
Title:
Memorandum as to the Right of British Ships of War to go up the Tigris and Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the rights of British Ships of War to sail on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a simplified map of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Shatt el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] and the nort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1883
Extent:

1 volume (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B76
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Claim of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to use Barges on those Rivers as a matter of "right"
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the right of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to sail their barges on those rivers, written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a summary of negotiations between the British and Ottoman Governments and as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (8 folios)