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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Arms control Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/10/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/32
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa & Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the first of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The several correspondents include officials at the Foreign Office, the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Jul 1902-22 Dec 1906
Extent:

1 volume (286 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/33
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the second of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Oct 1902-23 Dec 1908
Extent:

1 volume (266 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/34
Title:
File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
Scope & Content:
This volume is the third of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The main correspondents are ministers and officials at the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/113
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 4 'Arms Traffic: Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1909-1911).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1909-1 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/114
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 5 'Arms Traffic:- Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1912-1920).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to suppress arms trafficking. The blockade continued through 1912 and 1913 before being ended in 1914. The volume also includes correspondence between representatives of the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1912-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (301 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/116
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 10 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf. Prize Money for captures in Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the award of prize money to the officers and crews of British Naval vessels that had seized dhows containing arms and ammunition in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the values to be assigned to different types of arms and ammunition, and the decision b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1908-24 Sep 1915
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)