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51. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/10/115/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/3
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 8 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf - Seizure of French dhows "Musafa" and "Fath-el-Khair".'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence relates to complaints made by Abraham Elbaz (agent for Antoine Goguyer, a French arms merchant at Muscat) that his dhow Fath-el-Khair was being interfered with by HM's vessels causing him to suffer substantial financial losses. The correspondence also discusses negotiations t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jan 1911-4 Aug 1911
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/10/134/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/134/2
Title:
File 395/1908 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Katif; Disturbances in 1908'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 consists of correspondence and memoranda relating to disturbances at Katif [Al-Qaṭīf] and the surrounding area. The correspondence is between the Government of India, Foreign Office, Admiralty, and India Office. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the Political Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1908-Nov 1908
Extent:
1 item (73 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/10/196/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/196/4
Title:
File 4327/1911 Part 4 'Turco-Italian War: Red Sea Blockade'
Scope & Content:
Part four consists of correspondence relating to an Italian blockade of parts of the Red Sea coast of present-day Saudi Arabia. Several matters are covered by the correspondence: the classification of Turkish grain ships as contraband of war by the Italians; the Italian blockade of Hodeidah [Ḥud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1911-Mar 1912
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/10/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/465
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 5 ‘German War. Turkey. Hodeida consuls incident’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the incarceration by Turkish authorities of the British Vice-Consul at Hodeida (also spelt Hodeidah) [Al-Ḥudaydah], George Alexander Richardson, Richardson’s wife, Mary Richardson, and the French Vice-Consul at Hodeida, Monsieur Roux, in the wake of the destruction of a Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-16 Apr 1917
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

57. 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)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/2125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2125
Title:
Coll 6/58 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Most of the correspondence is focussed on British policy in response to the Saudi-Yemeni conflict. Related matters that feature in the correspondence include the following: Reports in March 1934 that peace negotiations between Saud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1914-31 May 1934
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

59. IOR/R/15/1/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/42
Title:
'Book No. 49'
Scope & Content:
The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1827-11 Feb 1836
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

60. IOR/R/15/1/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/70
Title:
Book 96: Letters Inward 1837
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent during 1837 to Captain Samuel Hennell, the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf. It primarily concerns the operations of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; the movement of ships, the transfer of officers, and the payment of allowances. Major topics cov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1837-14 Aug 1837
Extent:
1 file, (44 folios)