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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Shipping Place Basra, Asia

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/131
Title:
Summary of correspondence relative to the administration of the Port of Basrah and measures for the control of the shipping traffic in Mesopotamia.
Scope & Content:
This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1919. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 11 December 1915 to 14 August 1916 between the officers of the Government of India and the Director-General of Port Administration and Riv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (66 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/132
Title:
Shipping and congestion of stores at Basrah
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to details of shipping and congestion of storeships at Basrah for the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, published by the Quarter Master General, Simlah, in 1916. The information is divided into two sections: shipping and congestion of storeships at Basrah and is annotated ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/133
Title:
Summary of correspondence relative to surveying operations and river conservancy in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1916. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 10 February 1915 to 16 May 1916 between the officers of the Government of India, the Director of the Royal India Marine and the Director...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (48 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/R/15/2/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/698
Title:
‘File 28/12 Establishment of Contraband Control Centre’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the transport and trade in contraband goods through the Gulf during the Second World War, with particular reference to the trade in goods of enemy origin or destination. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Res...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1939-4 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (125 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1990
Title:
‘Transport requirements; Truck for office’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the shipment from Basra to Bahrain of a Dodge truck for use by the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, and the shipment in the opposite direction of a Hudson saloon car. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Public Relations Officer in Basra (M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1945-13 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)