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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, 1861-1960 Place Basra, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/333
Title:
File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/462
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning diplomatic tensions between the British and Ottoman Governments at the outset of the First World War, including social unrest and military/naval movements in Baghdad, Basra, and the Shatt al-Arab. The volume’s papers were produced prior to the Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1914-25 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/804
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVER CRAFT (1919.)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia, exchanged between 9 May and 20 December 1919, after the conclusion of the First World War. It contains material relating to: The centralisation of the disposal of all small miscellaneous craft in the Ministry of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-20 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)