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31. IOR/L/PS/12/1186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1186
Title:
Ext 8046/46 'Proposed Iraqi merchant shipping line'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a proposal made by the Hanna Sheikh River Transport Company to open an Iraqi shipping line. The message is relayed by Sir George Clinton Pelham (British Embassy in Iraq, Baghdad) to Archibald William David (British Consul, Basra). Subsequent corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1946-21 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/3413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3413
Title:
Coll 28/17 ‘Persia; Diaries; Kerman Consular 1931–1939.’
Scope & Content:
Printed and typewritten monthly reports submitted by the British Consul, or Acting/Officiating Consul at Kerman (George Alexander Richardson; Abdul Alim L K; Major Cecil Henning Lincoln; Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Falconer). The reports cover affairs in the Persian [Iranian] province of Ke...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1931-31 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (533 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/3741

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3741
Title:
Coll 30/27 'Persian Gulf: Shipping, Steamer Services from Karachi to Bahrein, Lingah, etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding freight charges, ports of call and other administrative matters related to shipping routes in - and through - the Persian Gulf. Specific matters discussed include a request by Kalat State for the British India Steam Navigati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Aug 1931-31 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/12/3789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3789
Title:
Coll 30/72 'Foreign Shipping in: Inauguration of regular steamship service from Italy by the Lloyd Triestino Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the introduction of a 'subsidised' shipping service into the Persian Gulf by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino. The Foreign Office viewed the development with concern, at a time of increasing international interest in the Persian Gulf. The papers cover: summary of f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1933-31 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/12/3790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3790
Title:
Coll 30/73 'German activities in the Gulf (inc Hansa line)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns various German activities in the Persian Gulf, principally the presence in the Gulf of German shipping, which was operated by the Hansa Line. The Foreign Office wished 'to discourage, as far as possible, German penetration in the Persian Gulf' (folio 65). The papers cover: lis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1934-26 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/12/3820

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3820
Title:
Coll 30/101 'Henjam: Efforts of Deputy Governor Henjam to compel all boats to carry registration numbers.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an order from the Deputy Governor, Henjam (acting on the instructions of the Government of Persia) that all vessels in Henjam (including British naval vessels flying the white ensign and using the Royal Indian Navy depot there) should be registered and numbered. The papers in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1934-4 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B27/4
Title:
A Note to the Vice-Consul in Tehran Proposing a British Protectorate on the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Aden
Scope & Content:
A handwritten note from [Arthur William Moore?] to the Vice-Consul in Tehran, Harry Lionel Churchill, in which the author suggests that the British formally declare a Protectorate over a portion of the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden recently evacuated by the Egyptians. However, he warns again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1886
Extent:

4 folios

38. IOR/L/PS/18/B411

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B411
Title:
Note on Trade in the Persian Gulf (Communicated by the Board of Trade)
Scope & Content:
Note on trade in the Persian Gulf by the Board of Trade, divided into the following sections: a) General (revised to 26 July 1928); b) Koweit [Kuwait] and Muscat (revised to 26 July 1928); c) The position of British Trade in the Gulf (to 30 June 1928). Section 'a' discusses the counterba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/18/B412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B412
Title:
Persian Coasting Trade (Communicated by the Board of Trade)
Scope & Content:
Memorandum concerning treaty rights of British ships in Persia. It covers the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1920 and its repercussions on the coasting trade; it highlights how other powers that have treaties with Great Britain have the right to partake in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

40. IOR/L/PS/20/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/71
Title:
Report on the British Indian Commercial Mission to South-Eastern Persia during 1904-1905. By A H Gleadowe-Newcomen.
Scope & Content:
Report by Arthur Hills Gleadowe-Newcomen, FRGS, FSA, President of the Commercial Mission to Persia. Submitted to the Government of India, and the Committees of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, Cawnpore [Kānpur], and the Indian Tea Cess, Calcutta [Kolkata]. Publication statement: Calcutta: G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (86 folios)