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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Shatt al Arab, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3711

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3711
Title:
Coll 30/4 'Shatt-El-Arab Conservancy Board Convention'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence between British officials regarding negotiations with the Governments of Iraq and Persia to establish a board to improve and maintain the conservancy of the Shatt el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] waterway. The primary correspondents in the file are officials from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Feb 1931-11 Aug 1932
Extent:
1 volume (692 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/438

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/438
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying; General Arrangements'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures of the new navigation aids for ships. A minority of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1912
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/272
Title:
File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/443

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/443
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 10 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; Supply of Lighthouse Tender; the Nearchus'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, and waters around Kuwait, Bushire, and Bahrain. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures on the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1916
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/441

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/441
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 5,6,7, & 8 'Persian Gulf Buoying and Lighting'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Residency in the Persian Gulf, and Trinity House in London about lighting and buoying operations in the Gulf near the Shatt al Arab waterway. Most of the correspondence relates to the placement of maritime lighting indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1916
Extent:
1 volume (355 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/366/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366/1
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Anglo-German Commercial Competition'
Scope & Content:
This is part one (of two) of a larger volume IOR/L/PS/10/366; it concerns increasing German competition experienced by British firms trading in the Persian Gulf region, and contains discussion between British officials as to possible action to strengthen the latter. Specific issues predominant...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1912-24 December 1913
Extent:

1 item (135 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3756
Title:
Coll 30/43 'Persian Gulf: Lighting & Buoying Service in: G/I's Contribution to the Lighting Fund etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains lists of light dues (charges levied on ships for the maintenance of lighthouses and other navigation aids) owed by Admiralty vessels for entering or leaving the Shatt al-Arab. In addition to these lists, the file contains related correspondence between British officials in Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1933-16 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (181 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/FO25, f 88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/FO25, f 88
Title:
‘Sketch of APPROACHES TO KUWEIT HARBOUR AND SHATT AL ARAB’
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of six maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/FO25. It is an Admiralty sea map and shows the approaches to Kuweit [Kuwait] Harbour and the Shatt Al Arab. It indicates heights above water springs, depth soundings, different types of lights and buoys, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 map sheet

9. IOR/L/PS/10/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/305
Title:
File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3400, f 736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3400, f 736
Title:
Map of the border region between Iraq and Persia
Scope & Content:
Pencil sketch showing the border region between Iraq and Persia [Iran]. The map indicates the Karun and Bahmanshir rivers, the coastline of the Persian Gulf and the Shatt al-Arab, and the towns of Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], and Basrah [Basra]. A red pencil line indicates the border...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 map