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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Maritime transport Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/5/228, ff 380-415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/228, ff 380-415
Title:
Persian Gulf Expeditionary Force Preparations
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a secret despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secret Committee, Number 45 of 1856, dated 22 September 1856. The enclosures are numbered 3-24 and are dated 26 August-17 September 1856. The enclosures comprise ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1856
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 306-444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 306-444
Title:
Proceedings and Dispatches, Aden 1839
Scope & Content:
The item consists primarily of correspondence with notes, reports and memoranda dated between 10 July and 2 September 1839; it relates to Aden during the first month after its capture by the British. The papers cover the following: a request for weights and measures at the Custom House at Aden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1839-2 Sep 1839
Extent:
1 item (138 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 450-635

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 450-635
Title:
Proceedings and Despatches, Karrack, 1839
Scope & Content:
The item consists primarily of correspondence with enclosures, notes, reports and memoranda dated between 1 August 1839 and 10 September 1839. It covers the first month after the British occupation of Karrack [Khārk/Kharg]. Most significant are those regarding: mercantile affairs; the movement ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1839-10 Sep 1839
Extent:
1 item (186 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 202-224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 202-224
Title:
Persian Gulf, His Highness Omer Pasha: Relative to the request of - for a Steamer to convey him from Bussorah to Suez.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 28 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1859-23 May 1859
Extent:
1 item (23 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 235-240

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 235-240
Title:
Persian Gulf, Derya Beggee: Relative to the visit of the - to Warrack in HM's Steam Ship Punjaub.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 30 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1858-23 May 1859
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 516-532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 516-532
Title:
‘Persian Gulf: Relative to the establishment of a more frequent Steam Communication between Bushire and Bombay’
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 46 of 15 December 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1859-15 Dec 1859
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/438

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/438
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying; General Arrangements'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures of the new navigation aids for ships. A minority of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1912
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/439

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/439
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 2-3 'Persian Gulf Lighting and Buoying Misc Papers'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the buoying of navigation routes and shipping lines in the Persian Gulf. The papers discuss the costs, logistical requirements and standardisation of lighting and marking of buoys in the Gulf. The file contains a variety of discussions by the various parties ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1920
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/440

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/440
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: Lights and Buoys; Expenditure'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the construction and maintenance of buoying and lighting facilities in the Persian Gulf, primarily for the Quoin Island Lighthouse. The letters are exchanges between the Government of India and British Authorities in the Persian Gulf, and mainly discuss the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1922
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/441

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/441
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 5,6,7, & 8 'Persian Gulf Buoying and Lighting'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Residency in the Persian Gulf, and Trinity House in London about lighting and buoying operations in the Gulf near the Shatt al Arab waterway. Most of the correspondence relates to the placement of maritime lighting indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1916
Extent:
1 volume (355 folios)