File 9/5 Naval & Shipping: Facilities for Royal Navy at Muscat Sultanate
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the establishment and maintenance of naval facilities within the territories of the Muscat Sultanate. Proposals for the following facilities are covered by the file: an examination service at Khassab for ships entering the Persian Gulf; a small station ...
File 11/34 III Muscat War Subsidy and Defence of Arab Side of Gulf
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This volume contains correspondence concerning arrangements for the defence of Muscat (with occasional references to other locations in the Gulf more broadly, including Kuwait). Much of this correspondence relates to the details of a financial 'war subsidy' paid to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman,...
File 12/1 I CABLE & WIRELESS LTD: September 1935 - Oct 1941.
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The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: the introduction by the Company of a cable running direct from Karachi to Muscat, and from Muscat to Bushire, and the enlargement of the cable station at Muscat, 1935; the issuing of a licence to the C...
File 12/4 TELEGRAMS SENT FROM SALALAH BY SULTAN OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE
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The file concerns the procedure for the transmission of, and payment for, telegrams sent from Salalah [Şalālah] by Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat and Oman, or his representative there. The papers show that in June 1947 the Royal Air Force (RAF) agreed to ...
File 5/191 Kidnapping of Baluchis and Indians on the Mekran Coast and exporting them for sale at Oman and Trucial Coast
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The volume contains correspondence between various British Government officials in the Persian Gulf, who were responding to a perceived increase in the trade of slaves across the Gulf of Oman, from the Baluchistan coast to the Batinah and Trucial coasts on the Arabian Peninsula. A significant pr...
'File 5/198 II, 199, 200 Kidnapping of persons on the Trucial Coast; purchase and export of slaves from the Trucial Coast; Saudi Government's regulations on the slave traffic'
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The contents of subject file 5/198 II relate to four kidnapping and slave trade incidents that occurred on the Trucial Coast between 1938 and 1941. In one incident (folios 8-22), the boat of the suspected trader, used to transport slaves, had its rudder and sail removed by the Shaikh of Dubai's ...
File 4/23 A Advices from A.G.C.R., New Delhi, of changes of officers empowered to sign authorities for payment
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The file contains advice letters from the Office of the Accountant General, Central Revenues (AGCR), New Delhi, to the Political Agency, Bahrain, containing specimen signatures of those accounts officers of the AGCR who were empowered to sign authorities for payments issuing from the Office, and...
File 36/48 II Applications for Assistance to Export Miscellaneous Articles from U.K. & U.S.A.
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This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to the importation of a number of different goods including toiletries, clothes and gramophones ...
The file comprises a letter from Ernest Vincent Packer, Manager for Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior) enclosing a copy of the concession agreement signed with Shaikh Aḥmad bin rāshid Āl Mu'alla ( of Umm-al-Qawain [...
The file relates to the award of titles and honours, principally to Gulf rulers, but also to Bahraini citizens and members of staff of the Political Agency, Bahrain. The correspondence is mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the India Offi...
