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11. IOR/L/PS/12/3928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:
Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (482 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/18/B42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B42
Title:
Memorandum by Lieutenant-General J. W. Schneider, C.B.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum from Sir John William Schneider, Politcal Resident at Aden, on British interests in Socotra. It includes opinions on Lieutenant-Colonel Kitchener's misapprehensions with regards to British influence at Socotra [Suquṭrā]; discusses the treaty or agreement concl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1886
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

13. IOR/R/15/1/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/176
Title:
'Book No 271' [Resident's Tour: Reports for 1858 and 1859]
Scope & Content:
The volume contains official tour reports of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, with supporting correspondence and papers, for the years 1858 and 1859. There is a title page within the volume stating : 'Head IX. Subject 2, Part 1. Resident's Tour. Reports fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1858-30 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/6/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/86
Title:
File 2/10 1 II. AVIATION. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (1) Reconnaissance of Basrah, Aden, Muscat, Masirah, Murbat, Sauqrah Bay Etc. AIR ROUTE.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the Air Staff Intelligence, Air Headquarters, Baghdad’s request for information to be obtained from Muscat regarding the possible establishment of a subsidiary air route from Iraq to India via the Arabian side of the Gulf. The required information wa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1926-22 Dec 1931
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

15. IOR/X/3630/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3630/13
Title:
‘A Trigonometrical Survey of Socotra by Lieut.ts S.B. Haines and I.R. Wellsted assisted by Lieut. I.P. Sanders and Mess.rs Rennie Cruttenden & Fleming Mids.n, Indian Navy. Engraved by R. Bateman, 72 Long Acre’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Honourable East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the Socotra Island compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1835
Extent:
1 map