File 5/6 Flying of Persian Flag by Foreign Ships Entering Persian Ports
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This file contains a letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, and Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, British Political Agent at Bahrain, and encloses correspondence with the British Vice-Consul at Mohammerah ...
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the Residency Agent at Sharjah; and representatives of Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited. These papers concern the practice of merchants' vessels, for...
File 5/23 Visits of U.S. Naval Vessels to the Persian Gulf
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This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, British Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the Commonwealth Relations Office, London; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; Captain ...
File 6/11 Shaikh Ahmad ibn Obaid of Heryan [Henjam] (Uncle of Shaikh of Dubai)
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The file relates to consultations and enquiries by British officials following the arrest of Sheikh Ahmad ibn Obaid of Henjam by the Persian Government. The Sheikh of Dubai, nephew of Sheikh Ahmad, wished to go Bandar Abbas to investigate the affair, but the British were keen to prevent his goin...
The volume’s correspondence and other papers relate to the construction of air facilities along the Arab coast of the Gulf, and as such is a continuation of volumes IOR/R/15/2/263-265. The principal correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel T...
‘File 7/23 Emergency landing grounds at T.C. [Trucial Coast]’
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The file’s contents relate to the maintenance and continued use of Royal Air Force (RAF) emergency landing grounds along the Arab coast of the Gulf, and in particular those at Abu Dhabi, Bani Yas island [Şīr Banī Yās] and Doha. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in B...
The contents of the file relate to a proposal (folio 1B) made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield) to the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) that a monthly fee be paid by the RAF to allow their vehicles to cross the Manama-Muharraq causeway, in...
File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1948 Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency and the Trucial Coast, as well as the reports themselves. The correspondence is between the Political Agent and representatives of institutions active in B...
File 8/8 VIII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1949
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1949 Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency and the Trucial Coast, including the reports themselves. The correspondence is between the Political Agent and representatives of institutions active in Ba...
File 10/9 BAPCO-ARAMCO OIL PIPE LINE FROM MAINLAND TO BAHRAIN
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Resident at Bahrain, the Political Agent at Bushire, Bahrain Petroleum Limited (BAPCO) and California Arabian Standard Oil Company (ARAMCO) on a new refinery to be built in Saudi Arabia and on an oil pipe line to be built from ...
