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1. IOR/L/PS/10/155/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/155/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Fuwairat piracy case’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to an incident taking place at Fuwairat, Qatar, in October 1909, in which a Persian vessel bound for Bahrain carrying a cargo of goats and firewood, was alleged by its nakhuda to have been deliberately scuppered on rocks by the inhabitants of Fuwairat, and the cargo then ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1912
Extent:

29 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/10/156/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/156/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: acts of piracy by Ahmed bin Selman near Katif [Turkish discourtesy to commander of HMS “Lapwing” at Katif]’
Scope & Content:
Part 4 contains correspondence relating to attacks against Bahrain pearling dhows, committed by members of the Beni Hajir tribe and led by an individual named Ahmed bin Selman, in the waters around Bahrain and the Turkish administered territories of Katif [Al-Qaṭīf] and El Katr [Qatar]. The part...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Mar 1901-12 Aug 1908
Extent:

178 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1188
Title:
File 5/6 DECLARATION OF GENERAL AVERAGE ON ACCOUNT OF S.S."BARENFELS" HAVING BEEN FOUNDERED NEAR FESHT AL DHIJBAL.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the decision of the agents of the German Hansa Line ship SS Barenfels to declare 'general average' after the vessel ran aground at the Fesht al Djibal (a reef off the east coast of Bahrain). (The location is spelled Fesht al Dhijbal in the title of the file). General average is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1929-21 Jan 1930
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)