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

1. IOR/L/PS/10/466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/466
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 6 ‘German War. Turkey. Jeddah. Food Supplies’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the impact of war between Britain and Turkey upon shipping, food supplies and travellers on Hajj pilgrimage, along the Red Sea coast of Arabia (including the Hedjaz [Hejaz] and Yemen), and the wider Arab region. Subjects covered include: Reports of food shortages in the Hedjaz ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Dec 1914-11 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (226 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/674
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic - Convention'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the Arms Traffic Convention (1919). The papers include: The final text of the Arms Traffic Convention signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, containing the names of the signatory states, 10 September-23 October 1919; the opinions of the French and British governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Oct 1919-20 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (343 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1186
Title:
Ext 8046/46 'Proposed Iraqi merchant shipping line'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a proposal made by the Hanna Sheikh River Transport Company to open an Iraqi shipping line. The message is relayed by Sir George Clinton Pelham (British Embassy in Iraq, Baghdad) to Archibald William David (British Consul, Basra). Subsequent corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1946-21 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3789
Title:
Coll 30/72 'Foreign Shipping in: Inauguration of regular steamship service from Italy by the Lloyd Triestino Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the introduction of a 'subsidised' shipping service into the Persian Gulf by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino. The Foreign Office viewed the development with concern, at a time of increasing international interest in the Persian Gulf. The papers cover: summary of f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1933-31 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/296
Title:
File 8/98 III Arms and Ammunition for Sultan
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition by the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence discusses arrangements for the shipping of arms and ammunition supplied by the War Office. Included are details of types of weapons ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1949-11 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (71 folios)