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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, 1861-1960 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/366/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366/2
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf and Arabistan: German competition'
Scope & Content:
This is part two (of two) of a larger volume IOR/L/PS/10/366; it concerns increasing German competition experienced by British firms trading in the Persian Gulf region, and contains discussion between British officials as to possible action to strengthen the latter. Specific issues predominant...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1913-1 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 item (195 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/803
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Disposal of River Craft E.T.S.N.Co. claim re “Khalifa”.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers on the petition of the ETSN Co [Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited] for compensation, following the seizure of their stock of coal and the steamships Khalifah and Ishtar by Ottoman authorities in August and November 1914, and their subsequent capture a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1917-13 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/805

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/805
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 3-4 ‘Mesopotamia: Disposal of Rivercraft (1920/21)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains material relating to the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia from December 1919 to January 1921. The volume is separated into two parts: Part 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Disposal of River Craft’ (IOR/L/PS/10/805/1) Part 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVERCRAFT’(IOR/L/PS/10/805/2). Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1919-6 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (584 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1072/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1072/2
Title:
File 2853/1922 Pt 2 'Persia: German Trade Activity. Intrusion of German competition in S. Persian Trade & Persian Gulf Shipping. Complaints against Mespot-Persia Corporation.'
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to German trade activity in Persia [Iran], and in particular the 'intrusion' of German competition in south Persian trade and Persian Gulf shipping, assisted by the provision of subsidy by the Government of Germany. Topics discussed include the resumption of tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1924-30 Sep 1924
Extent:
1 item (73 folios)