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Subject Marine navigation Digitised Content No Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 89622

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89622
Title:
Naval log books and journals
Scope & Content:
The collection comprises one folder of official naval correspondence, 1703-1914, and seven illustrated log books and journals, pertaining to British naval officers Francis Gerald St John (1869-1947) and Stratford Allan Gerald St John (1911-2001) on service in the China Seas, the Caribbean, the Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1703-1931
Extent:
1 folder and 7 volumes

2. IOR/L/MAR/A/X

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/X
Title:
Journal kept on the Trades Increase and Peppercorn ships by Thomas Love with notes on Downton's homeward voyage
Scope & Content:
Part of a journal kept by Thomas Love on the sixth voyage of the East India Company. The journal covers the voyages of the East India Company ships Trades Increase and Peppercorn from the Downs to Mocha and back (Captains Sir Henry Middleton and Nicholas Downton respectively, 4 April 1610-19 Nov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1610-14 Jun 1613
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/A/XXXIX

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/XXXIX
Title:
Royal James: Journal
Scope & Content:
Journal of the East India Company ship Royall James [Royal James] kept by Robertt Ffox [Robert Fox] from England to Surratt [Surat, also written in the journal as Surrat], and back to England between 27 March 1624 and 12 October 1626 (Captains John Weddell and Richard Swanley). The journal emplo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1624-7 Oct 1626
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR/C/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/3
Title:
'Abstracts of ship’s journals preserved in the India Office (1610-1623)'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains handwritten abstracts of journals of the Seventh, Tenth, Second Joint Stock, Fifth Joint Stock, and Seventh Joint Stock voyages of the East India Company, dating from 1610 to 1624, which had been preserved in the India Office. The volume is undated. It includes a tabular i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1877-1947
Extent:

1 volume (162 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 257-263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/478, ff 257-263
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 59 of 1853, dated 28 September 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 4-14 September 1853. A note in red ink indicates that number...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1853
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/E77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E77
Title:
'RED SEA AND GULF OF ADEN PILOT SIXTH EDITION, 1909.'
Scope & Content:
The sixth edition of an official publication entitled Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, produced by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty and dated 1909. At the front of the volume are: A ‘Notice to Mariners’, containing instructions for sailors on approaching British and British Imperial port...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:

1 volume (331 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/98
Title:
1/C Vol: V Miscellaneous.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, printed reports, memoranda, and notes, relating to miscellaneous topics concerning the Kuwait Agency from August to December 1924. The discussion in the volume relates to the following topics: Ikhwan raids, 1924 Proposed land mail serv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1924-27 Dec 1924
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)