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51. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 540-552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 540-552
Title:
Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity, and at the Red Sea Ports
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 25 of 1853, dated 29 March 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-8. Enclosure numbers 3-5 are dated 14 to 28 March 1853. Enclosure numbe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1853- 2 Nov 1906
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/5/479, ff 192-444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/479, ff 192-444
Title:
Tehran Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 74 of 1853, dated 24 December 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 12 October to 2 December 1853. The enclosures contain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1853
Extent:
1 item (252 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/9/76/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/91
Title:
Letter from John Spencer Smith to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 17 August 1799. The letter forwards a report on the movements of French and Spanish warships for the attention of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1799-17 Aug 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/9/76/99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/99
Title:
Report on the sinking of HMS Trincomalee
Scope & Content:
An extract of a report on proceedings on board the East India Company cruiser Comet by Lieutenant James Fortescue, dated 8 October 1799. The report describes a battle with French ships, including the captured ship Pearl, en route from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bussora [Basra], during which HMS Trincom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/10/1095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1095
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 2 'PERSIAN GULF: NEGOTIATIONS 1928 HENJAM'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to British policy regarding the Gulf island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], occupied in part, on and off, by the British since the late nineteenth century. Interdepartmental correspondence refers to the establishment of a British telegraph station on the island in 1868, follo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jul 1926-25 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (962 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/10/1099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1099
Title:
File 4480/1923 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Naval Incidents: Visits of British Warships to Persian Ports: Persian Territorial Waters Bill.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office Political and Secret Department minute papers, relating to naval incidents in the Persian Gulf, and visits of British warships to Persian ports. It includes correspondence regarding the following: the Persian Government’s obje...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Nov 1923-8 May 1934
Extent:

1 volume (823 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/659
Title:
Ext 6739/41 ‘Alleged sinking of a Persian dhow by one of H.M. Ships’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small amount of correspondence on the alleged sinking of an Iranian dhow (registration plate No. L.44) by a Royal Naval vessel on 8 February 1941 off the coast of Somalia near the Port of Kismayu [Kismayo]. The particulars of the incident can be found in a translation of a me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1941-20 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/920

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/920
Title:
Ext 2103/44 'Presentation of naval sword to Shaikh of Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the presentation of a naval sword to His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain [King of Bahrain] on behalf of the Royal Navy. The initial proposal was made by Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf (Captain John Montagu Howson), to the Commander in Chief, Eastern ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1944-15 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/1414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1414
Title:
Pol Ext 8078/49 'Visit of Royal Indian Navy ships to East African ports, Seychelles, Mauritius and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to visits by the Royal Indian Navy to ports in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. The majority of the papers are exchanges between the Colonial Office in London and British officials in East Africa. The bulk of the papers convey serious British concerns about Ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1949-1 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)