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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Flags Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/25
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 1 'Muscat Arbitration. (1904-08).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses a dispute between the British and French Government’s over the use of French flags on Muscat dhows and individuals dhow owners from Muscat claiming to be protégés of France owing to their vessels being registered as French. The two governments agreed in October 1904 for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1906
Extent:
1 volume (385 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/26
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 2 'Muscat Arbitration. (1906-09).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, notes, reports, and memoranda regarding the question of the settlement of the French flag dispute between the British and French governments following the award of the arbitration tribunal at The Hague on the question of the grant of the French fla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 May 1904-16 Apr 1909
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1211
Title:
Ext 1952/47 'Supply of stores and stationery to Persian Gulf posts'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters, telegrams and notes between officials acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, London, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding the requesting of supplies of stores, stationery and flags for the Residency and Agency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1947-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3470B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3470B
Title:
Coll 28/64 ‘Persia. Flying of Flags in. Persian Regulations re. flying of flags by foreign merchant vessels in Persian Ports.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the introduction of regulations by the Imperial Persian (Iranian) Navy relating to the flying of the Persian flag by foreign merchant vessels in Persian ports. The correspondence covers: the new regulations and their implications for British commercial interests such as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1930-27 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (141 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3760

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3760
Title:
Coll 30/46 'Persian Gulf, Salutes in'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to matters of protocol in the Persian Gulf including gun salutes, flags and uniforms. The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials at the Admiralty, the Ministry of Transport, the Foreign Office and the Political Residency....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1929-3 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (302 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3829

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3829
Title:
Coll 30/106 'Anglo-Persian Relations: Bushire flag incident, 1934.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an incident at Bushire on 26 November 1934, in which an allegedly drunk Persian naval officer ordered a British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN) tender, the Garmsir, to haul down the red ensign. The officer was said to have accompanied the order with threats, and to have s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1934-25 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/61
Title:
File XXII/5 Distinctive Flag for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises hand written letters, notes, typed correspondence and printed reports relating to the proposed adoption of a distinctive Kuwait flag and certificates of nationality for marine craft belonging to Shaikh Mobarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] or his subjects. Further disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-24 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/329

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/329
Title:
File 9/27 Naval & Shipping: Right of foreign vessels to fly British flag when chartered by British subjects
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between officials at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade concerning what rights foreign vessels chartered by British subjects have to fly the British flag. The correspondence is forwarded to the Political Agency, Muscat, by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)