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1. IOR/R/15/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/5
Title:
Vol 5 Letters inward and outward
Scope & Content:
Most of the letters in this file are written by Mirza Mehedy Ally Khaun [Mirza Mahdi 'Ali Khan Bahadur], who was the Native Agent at Bushire from October 1798 to January 1803, although there are also a significant number of letters received by him. Other correspondents include: Samuel Manesty, Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1801-14 Feb 1803
Extent:
1 volume, 79 items (56 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/136
Title:
Vol 183 1853/54 Residency in the Persian Gulf, Persia and Persian Coast
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence to and from Arnold Burrowes Kemball, the Resident in the Persian Gulf. The correspondents include Justin Sheil (Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia) the Governor of Bushire and George Robinson (the Commander of the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
6 Jan 1853-15 Dec 1853
Extent:
1 file (174 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/137
Title:
‘Vol 184 1853/54 Commerce; Accounts and General’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to a number of different subjects. The principal correspondents are Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Topics covered by the file include: Import d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1853-14 Dec 1853
Extent:
1 file (44 folios, 13 items)

4. IOR/R/15/2/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/170
Title:
File 1/A/48 II Food Control
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the implementation in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of the Civil Requirements Programme Middle East. The programme was a Ministry of War Transport initiative to assess the likely civil import needs of the Middle East in view of pressure on available shipping, and the difficul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1941-1 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/2/324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/324
Title:
File 8/23 III Cargo Returns
Scope & Content:
The file consists of fortnightly reports on ships entering and departing the port of Bahrain between June 1944 and August 1948. Each report is compiled by the Director of Customs and Port Officer and comes in the form of a table with the following information: name of ship; nationality of ship; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1944-17 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (152 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/539
Title:
File 14/4 Visits of Japanese representatives and agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, memoranda, and correspondence relating to the visits and treatment of Japanese and Italian subjects and agents in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire, the British Ministry at Jeddah, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1936-4 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/551-556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/551-556
Title:
File 16 Shipping
Scope & Content:
The 'Shipping' files consist of six surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s, about the passage of shipping in the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; and the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1946
Extent:
6 files (700 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/650
Title:
FLYING OF FLAGS BY COMPANIES AND PRIVATE PERSONS IN BAHRAIN.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the request from African and Eastern (Near East) Limited to Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent, Bahrain, to fly the shipping company's house flag over their office when there is a ship in port. The Political Agent inquired to the Political Resident Persian Gulf, who ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1948-1 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/668

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/668
Title:
‘File 28/1 O Prevention from sailing of Swedish, Finnish, etc. craft’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises two secret telegrams, sent by the C-in-C (Commander-in-Chief), E.I. (East Indies Station), both dated 29 April 1940. The first (f 2) states that ‘All Swedish, Finnish, Latvian and Estonian ships in British Ports and bound for Scandinavian, Danish or Baltic Ports should by some ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)