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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM's Indian Navy, 1830-1863

1. IOR/F/4/676/18677

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/676/18677
Title:
‘Survey of the Western Shore of the Persian Gulph’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a Marine and Forest Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Henry Meriton, Superintendent of Marine; the East India Company Court of D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1809-29 Aug 1821
Extent:
1 item (67 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/1435/56727

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1435/56727
Title:
‘In three Volumes. Vol: 2. Affairs of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, extracts from the Government of Bombay Political Consultations. It is the second in a series of three items on general affairs in the Persian Gulf (the others are: IOR/F/4/1435/56726 a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1831-31 Dec 1833
Extent:

1 item (286 folios)

3. IOR/F/4/2181/106074

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2181/106074
Title:
‘Persian Gulf & Red Sea Naval Squadron. Proposed removal of the – from Political Control & the advisability of their being joined under one command – Vol: 20’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It is the twentieth in a series of twenty items o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1845-22 Jul 1846
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

4. IOR/F/4/2477/139058

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2477/139058
Title:
‘Forwarding specimens of the Zoology of Mesopotamia collected by Commander Jones of the Indian Navy.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Commander Stephen Lushington, Commander in Chief of the Indian Navy. The item concerns zoologic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1851-27 Feb 1852
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

5. IOR/L/MAR/C/909

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/909
Title:
Miscellaneous Papers.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a collection of miscellaneous East India Company (and India Office) papers on 'Marine' matters, including correspondence, memoranda, committee papers, minutes, lists, notes, and extracts. The papers cover: Indian Navy (IN) matters (including constitution and government of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1786-1860
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 5-191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 5-191
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 3
Scope & Content:
The enclosures cover the following: the instructions of the Political Agent in Sindh Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pottinger to the officers of the Indian Navy surveying the Indus River; the chart of the Indus prepared by Lieutenant Thomas Carless of the Indian Navy, and his observations on the diffic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1836
Extent:
187 folios

7. IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 194-204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 194-204
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 4 (Not included in the Volume)
Scope & Content:
The enclosures (not included in the volume) cover the following: demand by Maharaja Ranjit Singh for tribute from the Amirs of Hyderabad, Mirpur and Khairpur in Sindh; the confirmation of the capture, by the troops of Ranjit Singh, of Mir Bahram Khan Mazari’s capital Rojhan; the three kharitas fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1836
Extent:
11 folios

8. IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 391-525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 391-525
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf and Arabian coastline, chiefly British attempts to avert potential conflicts between Arab maritime rulers, the disruption of trade with India, acts of ‘piracy’, and the undermining of British influence in the area. The papers nota...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1838-May 1839
Extent:
1 item (134 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/55
Title:
Vol 70, 71: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters received at Bushire from William Sowden Collinson, the Commodore of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, stationed at Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū], and the Government of Bombay. The correspondence pertains to political affairs along the Arab Gulf coast, particularly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1830-20 Dec 1830
Extent:
1 volume, 8 items (38 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/60
Title:
Vol 78: Miscellaneous Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. The principal correspondents are the following: Commodore William Sowden Collinson, Commander of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; Charles N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1832-24 Sep 1832
Extent:
1 volume (28 folios)