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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Royal Navy, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, 1865-1941

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2961

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2961
Title:
Coll 20/9 'Muscat: Procedure when Sultan visits H. M. Ships'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence that discusses changes to the East Indies Station Order Book that concern visits by the Sultan of Muscat to British ships. The changes relate to the differentiation between official and informal visits and the protocol to be used for both. The correspondents inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1932-30 Aug 1932
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/49
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Command...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 697-699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/264, ff 697-699
Title:
Jurisdiction of the Maritime Truce
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 32 of 1870, dated 27 May 1870, containing an enclosure dated 9 February 1870. The enclosure consists of a copy of a letter from Commodore Leopold George Heath, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies St...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1870
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B85
Title:
Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of a series of letters (and their various enclosures) between Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, Commander of HMS Octavia and the following individuals: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox; Britain's Agent in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Chu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1869
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/475
Title:
PZ 584/41 'Omani fear of an invasion.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent and HM Consul, Muscat, to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, which is forwarded to Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Departme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Oct 1940-6 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2189
Title:
Coll 7/21 'Persian Gulf: Arms Traffic Proclamation and Notification of 1898, by the rulers of Muscat, Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait]'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and British concerns over the rights of Britain and Persia [Iran] to search ships and dhows of the Trucial Coast states within territorial waters. The file opens with a communication from the Political Resident in the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-31 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/113
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 4 'Arms Traffic: Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1909-1911).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1909-1 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1503
Title:
Coll 1/65 'Defence of Aden: general precautionary measures in view of Italo-Ethiopian situation; food supplies'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly) and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, regarding arrangements to supply Aden with food during times of war. Reilly also requests that an additional Police Officer be posted at Aden during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Oct 1935-11 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/114
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 5 'Arms Traffic:- Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1912-1920).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to suppress arms trafficking. The blockade continued through 1912 and 1913 before being ended in 1914. The volume also includes correspondence between representatives of the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1912-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (301 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/236
Title:
File 868/1912 Pt 2 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and a press cutting relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: negotiations between the United Kingdom and France over possible trade-offs in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (215 folios)