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1. IOR/R/15/2/1368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1368
Title:
‘File 12/1 Casaulties – Rules for Boats approaching steamers etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to incidents and accidents involving steamers at Bahrain, including: boats approaching steamers before they have anchored (ff 4-5); an accident leading to the death of a sailor on board SS Bandra (ff 6-7); instances of steamers running aground on sand b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1926-1 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1369
Title:
‘File 12/2 Accident between S.S. “Bandra” and a Dhow on the 12th August 1929, in the Bahrain Harbour.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, statements and other papers related to a collision which took place on 12 August 1929, twelve miles off the coast of Bahrain, between a steamer, the SS Bandra, operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN), and a dhow, working on the pearl banks...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1929-13 May 1930
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1371
Title:
‘File 12/4 I.E.T.S [Indo-European Telegraph Ship] “Patrick Stewart” ran ashore near “Fasht Adbal [Fasht ad Dībal]’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and telegrams relating to the running aground on 14 March 1927 of the Indo-European Telegraph Ship Patrick Stewart, on sandbanks to the east of the Bahrain islands, referred to as Fasht Adbal or Fasht ad dbal [Fasht ad Dībal]. The file includes: copies of teleg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1927-6 May 1927
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1372
Title:
‘File 12/5 Wrecks of sailing boats and vessels in the sea and salvages’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, statements made by nakhudas, bills and receipts, all related to incidents in which native vessels were wrecked or damaged in the Persian Gulf (and chiefly in the waters around Bahrain) usually as a result either of storms or collision with another vessel. The co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
17 Nov 1929-12 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (282 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1373

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1373
Title:
‘File 12/5 II Accidents involving country craft’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to incidents involving local cargo vessels, frequently referred to as country craft, travelling through the Persian Gulf, usually between ports in Iraq, Iran and India. The incidents referred to include the sinking and running aground o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1945-4 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (153 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1374
Title:
‘File 12/6 Marine Note of Protest’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the raising of notes of protest by various parties, in response to damage sustained to vessels at sea, or loss of cargo from vessels while at sea. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Master of the SS Begum, O G Rowland Jones; the Chief Local...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1931-14 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1384
Title:
‘File 12/14 Shipping. Miscellaneous accidents between dhows and steamers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence concerning three cases involving dhows, as follows: correspondence relating to a collision between a Bahrain-registered dhow and an Anglo-Iranian Oil Company tug at Khorramshahr in November 1943. Much of the follow-up correspondence concerns the seizure by the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
13 Nov 1943-23 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1386

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1386
Title:
‘File 12/16 Merchant Shipping Acts and instructions to Consuls’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of instructions to British Consuls, in the form of letters, printed circulars, notices and forms, issued by the Ministry of Transport (or the Ministry of War Transport during the Second World War) and relating to merchant shipping, including regulations and government p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1931-25 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)