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1. IOR/R/15/1/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/161
Title:
Vol 246: Squadron, Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This volume consists almost entirely of letters received by the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy from the senior Indian Navy officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron (acting or otherwise). Most of the letters are addressed to a named recipient and the bulk of these are addressed to R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1857-2 Dec 1857
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/389-390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/389-390
Title:
File 33: Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:
The two surviving Naval and Marine files in the records of the Political Residency, Bushire both relate to the Royal Navy base at Jufair in Bahrain. The first file records the Admiralty decision to close the naval base at Henjam [Hengam] Island and to establish a new base at Jufair, with later pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-1944
Extent:
2 files (87 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/211-228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/211-228
Title:
File 5 Naval and Marine
Scope & Content:
The Naval and Marine files of the Political Agency, Bahrain contain files concerning: ports and anchorages at Bahrain; movements of British naval ship and non-military ships in the Persian Gulf; visits of United States naval vessels to Bahrain; lighting and buoying; the establishment of the Jufai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1932-1949
Extent:
18 files (901 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/341
Title:
File 8/50 Staff Officer (Intelligence) East Indies: Periodic Newsletter
Scope & Content:
The file contains periodic newsletters written by J E M Ruffer, Staff Officer (Intelligence) at the East Indies Station, Naval Headquarters, Trincomalee. Present within the file are newsletter numbers 1-5 issued between 13 May and 9 October 1948 on an approximately monthly basis. Each newsletter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1948-9 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/164
Title:
File 2/11 Formation of an Iraqi river fleet
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the India Office and the British Embassy in Basra on the formation of a small river fleet in Iraq to protect the Shatt al-Arab waterway during the Second World War. The papers cover the size and armament of the fleet of six boats, the projected cost of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Mar 1936-20 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/316
Title:
File 13/7 'Japanese Trawlers for the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding measures under consideration by the British government for preventing encroachments by Japanese and other foreign vessels on Arab pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is between: J P Gibson of the India Office, and T V Brennan and La...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1938-20 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/59 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/59 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
'File XXXVI Ceremonials, Honours and Rewards’
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series file XXXVI Ceremonials, Honours and Rewards consists of one volume: XXXVI/1. The correspondence in this sub-sub-series is regarding the question of the relative rank of Royal Navy Commanders and Foreign Consuls in the Gulf for special occasions such as Durbars, processions and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1873-1926
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/376
Title:
File 11/27 Assistance to Political Officers in the Persian Gulf (Defence)
Scope & Content:
This file contains a copy of a memorandum from the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain to the Political Agencies in Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait concerning the circumstances in which Royal Navy ships could be called upon to render assistance to political officers in the Persian Gulf (folios 2-3). Als...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1948-7 Sep 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)