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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/10/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/82
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 2 'Bahrain: status; British protection of Bahrainis; Persian claim to sovereignty'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, and minutes relating to the question over the status of subjects of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates) when in Persia and Turkish Arabia. The correspondence is mostly between the India Office and the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1905-Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1098

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1098
Title:
File 4480/1923 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Ownership of the Shatt-el-Arab’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the right of navigation in the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab). It includes correspondence relating to the following: the alignment of the Perso-Iraq frontier at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab; the right of Persian [Iranian] vessels ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 May 1928-28 Nov 1930
Extent:

1 volume (362 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/113
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 4 'Arms Traffic: Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1909-1911).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1909-1 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/994

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/994
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 5-5A 'OIL QATAR AND MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume is comprised of two parts (IOR/L/PS/10/994/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/994/2) and contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Qatar and Oman. IOR/L/PS/10/994/1 consists of memoranda, letters, and corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1933
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/410
Title:
File 3654/1913 ‘Pts 1.2.&3. PERSIA:- ADMIRALTY OIL COMMISSION’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1, 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persia – Admiralty Oil Commission’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/1) concerns the Admiralty Oil Commission, which is also referred to as Admiral Slade’s Committee. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/2) concerns the Admiralty’s contract with the Anglo-Persian O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1918
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/114
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 5 'Arms Traffic:- Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1912-1920).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to suppress arms trafficking. The blockade continued through 1912 and 1913 before being ended in 1914. The volume also includes correspondence between representatives of the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1912-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (301 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1095
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 2 'PERSIAN GULF: NEGOTIATIONS 1928 HENJAM'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to British policy regarding the Gulf island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], occupied in part, on and off, by the British since the late nineteenth century. Interdepartmental correspondence refers to the establishment of a British telegraph station on the island in 1868, follo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jul 1926-25 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (962 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/485

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/485
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 8 'German War: Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the plan for the British occupation of Bushire. The volume covers: Measures to be taken at the Persian Gulf Ports in case of armed intervention against Persia, issued by the Admiralty to the Commander-in-C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1915-5 Nov 1915
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)