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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Socotra, Arabian Sea

1. IOR/F/4/2124/100252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2124/100252
Title:
‘Socotra. An Arab vessel with one hundred and twenty five pilgrims on board founders near the island of -.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, a political letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Arthur Malet, Political Agent in Katteewar [Kathiawar]; Edward Lyon, Chairman of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1844-13 Oct 1845
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2391/128019

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2391/128019
Title:
‘Aden. Wreck of the Ship “Mary Florence” off Cape Guardafui – Vol: 1’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Short; and Archibald Spens, Senior Magistrate of Police, Bombay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1850-30 Aug 1850
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/A/III

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/III
Title:
Dragon: Fragment of Journal, William Keeling
Scope & Content:
The volume is part of the Marine Department Records Ships' Journals. It contains fragments of the first leaf of Captain William Keeling's journal composed in 1607 on board of the Dragon. The fragment covers the ship's outward voyage from the Downs and Plymouth. The Dragon made a voyage from Engl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1607-17 Apr 1607
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR/A/VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/VIII
Title:
Hector: Fragment of Hawkins' journal
Scope & Content:
Fragment Journal of part of a journey on the third voyage of the East India Company on the Hector from Dellisha [Qalansiyah], a port town on the north coast of Socotra, to Surett [Surat], under Captain William Hawkins. The Journal consists of daily entries recording navigational information in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1608-19 Aug 1608
Extent:
1 volume (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/MAR/A/X

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/X
Title:
Journal kept on the Trades Increase and Peppercorn ships by Thomas Love with notes on Downton's homeward voyage
Scope & Content:
Part of a journal kept by Thomas Love on the sixth voyage of the East India Company. The journal covers the voyages of the East India Company ships Trades Increase and Peppercorn from the Downs to Mocha and back (Captains Sir Henry Middleton and Nicholas Downton respectively, 4 April 1610-19 Nov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1610-14 Jun 1613
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

6. IOR/L/MAR/A/XX

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/A/XX
Title:
Clove: Journals on Clove (21 Feb 1617-15 Jun 1617, John Munden), Hector (28 Feb 1614-13 Jun 1615, John Munden, mate) and New Year's Gift (30 Jun 1614-16 Oct 1614, George Downton?)
Scope & Content:
Journal of the voyage of the Hector, Solomon, and New Year’s Gift from England to Bantam [Banten], Java, 28 February 1613 [New Style date 28 February 1614] to 15 June 1617, written by John Munden of the Hector ship. The journal contains daily entries with monthly columns. There are brief entries...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1614-15 Jun 1617
Extent:
1 volume (38 folios)

7. IOR/L/MAR/B/544-I

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/544-I
Title:
Nassau: Journal
Scope & Content:
The journal of the East India Company ship Nassau is part of the Marine Department Records, Ships’ Journals. Inscribed: ‘This is my original Journal in my own hand writing Arthur Gore Witness J. Holland’. The logbook records the observations during the Nassau’s voyage from England towards India/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1781-30 Sep 1785
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/215
Title:
File 332/1912 'Sokotra: looting of the Kuala; Development of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and minutes relating to the looting of the SS Kuala by inhabitants of Socotra following its grounding off the coast of the island in November 1911. Some of the correspondence is included as enclosures, sometimes in the form of printed collect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1911-Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/1460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1460
Title:
Coll 1/24 'Aden Protectorate: status of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the status of Socotra [Suquṭrā], and a visit made by the Resident to the island and to the eastern borders of the Aden Protectorate. Papers dated 1926 consist of a text of the following questions asked by Viscount Sandon in the House of Commons: whether any Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1926-4 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (47 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1466
Title:
Coll 1/30 'Aden Protectorate: extension of the limit of the Red Sea Patrol to include the Gulf of Aden, Socotra and British Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding a suggestion by the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) that the limits of the Red Sea Patrol be extended to include the whole of the Gulf of Aden. The file includes correspondence received from the Board of the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, and the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1933-13 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)