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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

111. IOR/L/PS/20/130, f 43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/130, f 43
Title:
Sketch of APPROACHES TO KUWEIT HARBOUR AND SHATT AL ARAB
Scope & Content:
The sketch map shows approaches to Kuwait [Kuwait] Harbour and Shatt Al Arab. An Admiralty sea map, it states it is compiled from various authorities, and is found in the volume 'Report and Proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Persian Gulf', 1911....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 map

112. 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)

113. IOR/L/PS/20/FO39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO39
Title:
'TRAFFIC IN ARMS IN THE PERSIAN GULF, &c. 1880-98 & 1899-99'.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of two publications: ‘Part I. Correspondence respecting Trade in Arms in Persia, Muscat, &c. 1880-1898’ ‘Part II. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1898-99.’ These publications were printed for the use of the Foreig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 May 1880-22 Dec 1899
Extent:
1 volume (273 folios)

114. IOR/L/PS/20/FO40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO40
Title:
'TRAFFIC IN ARMS IN THE PERSIAN GULF, &c. 1900-02'.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of three publications: ‘Part III. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1900.’ ‘Part IV. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1901.’ ‘Part V. Further Correspondence respecting t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Jan 1900-31 Dec 1902
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)

115. IOR/L/PS/20/FO41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO41
Title:
'TRAFFIC IN ARMS IN THE PERSIAN GULF, &c. 1903-1907'.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of four publications: ‘Part VI. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1903.’ ‘Part VII. Further Correspondence respecting the Traffic in Arms in the Persian Gulf, &c. 1904.’ ‘Part I. Correspondence respecting Arms and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Dec 1902-31 Dec 1907
Extent:
1 volume (350 folios)

116. IOR/R/15/1/389-390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/389-390
Title:
File 33: Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:
The two surviving Naval and Marine files in the records of the Political Residency, Bushire both relate to the Royal Navy base at Jufair in Bahrain. The first file records the Admiralty decision to close the naval base at Henjam [Hengam] Island and to establish a new base at Jufair, with later pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-1944
Extent:
2 files (87 folios)

117. IOR/R/15/1/639

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/639
Title:
File 86/1 II (D 78) Kuwait Oil. Eastern and General Syndicate
Scope & Content:
The volume continues on from IOR/R/15/1/638 in discussing a proposed Oil Concession for Kuwait which is negotiated by Major Frank Holmes on behalf of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited. The correspondence focuses on a proposed clause in the draft concession agreement, known as the 'Nati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1931-30 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (239 folios)

118. IOR/R/15/1/640

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/640
Title:
File 86/1 III (D 81) Kuwait Oil. Eastern and General Syndicate
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the draft oil concession agreements presented to the Shaikh of Kuwait (Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ) by the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (A.P.O.C.). The correspondence focuses particularly on the individual c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1932-31 Jan 1933
Extent:
1 volume (190 folios)

119. IOR/R/15/1/642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/642
Title:
File 86/1 VI (D 97) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume relates to three main areas of discussion: The Kuwait Oil Company's negotiations with the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, for the granting of an oil concession in Kuwait. Included within the volume are copies of both the draft concession agreement, in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

120. IOR/R/15/1/647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/647
Title:
'D.158. 86/1 - xi KUWAIT OIL'
Scope & Content:
The file primarily focuses on the progress being made by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in drilling for oil in Kuwait, including establishing drills at new sites and the discovery of oil at the Burgan site in February 1938. Later correspondence relates to various topics, as follows: the work and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1937-30 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)