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11. IOR/L/PS/12/2971

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2971
Title:
Coll 20/15 'Muscat: Infringement of Muscat territorial waters by Persian vessels'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning reports of a Persian warship operating in Muscat territorial waters. The vessel was seen off Khassab, Oman. Much of the correspondence discusses what grounds exist for a British protest to the Persian Government over the incident, with reference to international law and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1933-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (98 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3792

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3792
Title:
Coll 30/75 'Anglo-Persian Relations: Persian claims to Arab Littoral. Persian Govt. question right of H.M. Govt. to make official representations on behalf of Arab Rulers.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns relations between the governments of the United Kingdom and Persia (also referred to as Iran), specifically in terms of relations between Persia and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf that were under British protection. The file mainly contains correspondence from British Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jun 1918-26 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 file (394 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/3794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3794
Title:
Coll 30/77 'Koweit: Persian interference with Koweiti dhows.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns reports of interference with Kuwaiti dhows by Iranian (also referred to as Persian) customs and naval authorities. The papers contain witness statements, letters of protest by the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait], reports, discussion of the incidents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1934-28 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/3796

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3796
Title:
Coll 30/79 'Persian claim to 10 mile limit for Persian territorial waters.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the extent of territorial waters claimed by the Government of Persia (also referred to as Iran). The British Government held that in the absence of international agreement, three miles was the extent of territorial waters, but the Persian Government claimed distances of up to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Jan 1929-3 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (229 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/3806B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3806B
Title:
Coll 30/87(2) Part II 'Qatar: Oil Concession - P.C.L.'s Operations.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) (and its subsidiary Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited) in Qatar. Of particular importance in the file is the issue of the division of the sea bed for drilling operations between PCL's concession, and that of the Bahrain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1945-13 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (296 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/3815

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3815
Title:
Coll 30/95 'Persian regulations governing visits of foreign warships to Persian ports.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns regulations issued by the Government of Iran (generally referred to in the papers as Persia) governing the passage of foreign warships through Iranian territorial waters, and visits by foreign warships to Iranian ports. The papers include reports from HM Minister, Tehran; the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Jul 1934-1 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file, in two parts (232 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/3819

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3819
Title:
Coll 30/100 'Bahrain. (Persian claim to,): Geneva Arms Traffic Convention of 1925:- Reservation of the United States Senate to its ratification'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the attaching of a reservation by the United States Senate to its ratification of the Geneva Arms Traffic Convention of 1925 [the Geneva Protocol]. The reservation stated that adherence to the treaty should not be construed as denying any right of sovereignty of the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1934-25 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (71 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/3924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924
Title:
Coll 30/186 'Oil: Koweit Territorial Waters. Jurisdiction over the sub-soil beneath the sea. Off-Shore Oil in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the interest of the Kuwait Oil Company in exploring for submarine oil deposits beyond the limits of Kuwait's territorial waters, and the issue of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf generally, in the light of the United States Government's proclamation of 1945 concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1939-12 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (366 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/18/B135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B135
Title:
Memorandum on the Use of the French Flag by Subjects of the Sultan of Maskat
Scope & Content:
This file is a memorandum concerning the use of the French flag by dhows belonging to subjects of the Sultan of Maskat [Muscat]. The memorandum is divided up as follows: Abstract of correspondence 1891-92; 1894-96; 1897-99; 1900; 1901; Summary; Extent to which French jurisdiction has been clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/1/636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/636
Title:
File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, His Majesty's Consul at Geneva (in French), the Political Resident at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the settling of the dispute between Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1933-13 Jul 1939
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)