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21. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449
Title:
‘The Flotilla on the River Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 17 November-29 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the withdrawal of the steam flotilla on the Euphrates and the trans...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113
Title:
Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects. Folios 85-97 cover a complaint fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1852
Extent:
1 item (33 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 165-167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 165-167
Title:
Turkish Arabia: Renewal of Rights of Navigation on the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers by British Vessels
Scope & Content:
Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 14 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosure is dated 27 February 1861. Received 20 May 1861. The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a translation ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1861
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/41/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41/1
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2 ‘Mohammerah: Karun navigation’
Scope & Content:
This part is concerned with the Persian Transport Company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, and their managing agents Messrs Lynch. In particular, it relates to the provision of a subsidy by the Foreign Office to the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for its steamer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1906-28 Jun 1915
Extent:

1 item (342 folios)

25. IOR/L/PS/10/88/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/1
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia:- Euphrates + Tigris S. N. Co.; Mail contract’
Scope & Content:
Part 1 of the volume comprises correspondence relating to, as well as draft copies of (ff 325-327, ff 338-341, ff 384-386) an indenture for the renewal of the concession agreed between the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (ETSNC) and the British Government, for the conveyance of mai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1905
Extent:

1 item (72 folios)

26. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/10/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/272
Title:
File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

29. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

30. IOR/L/PS/10/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/804
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVER CRAFT (1919.)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia, exchanged between 9 May and 20 December 1919, after the conclusion of the First World War. It contains material relating to: The centralisation of the disposal of all small miscellaneous craft in the Ministry of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-20 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)