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

51. IOR/L/PS/12/2100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2100
Title:
Coll 6/34 'Yemen: Oil and Mining Concessions in. Messrs Mitchell and Boucher. Activities of Mr E.R. Bailey. Petroleum Concessions Ltd: Survey of Kamaran.'
Scope & Content:
This file largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office correspondence relating to oil and mining concessions in Yemen. Matters discussed in the correspondence include the following: Details of a concession for the exploitation of oil and other minerals, reported to have been...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1932-23 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/12/2113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2113
Title:
Coll 6/46 'Salutes in Hejaz Nejd.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns personal salutes given by British naval ships to dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence, largely between officials of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, begins with discussion about the number of gun salutes that should be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1928-5 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/12/2120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2120
Title:
Coll 6/53 'Red Sea: The Hanish Islands.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns the sovereignty status of the Hanish Islands, as well as that of other islands in the Lower Red Sea. It documents concerns held by the British Government that the Italian Government is in the process of attempting to establish some kind of informal control over certa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
2 Oct 1928-12 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/12/2121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2121
Title:
Coll 6/54 'Saudi-Arabia: Limits of Saudi Arabian territorial waters.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the delimitation of Saudi Arabia's territorial waters. It documents reservations held by the British regarding the Saudi Government's claim that its territorial waters extend as far as four miles from the shore (as opposed to the three-mile limit favoured by the British). The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1932-8 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/2125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2125
Title:
Coll 6/58 'Asir: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Most of the correspondence is focussed on British policy in response to the Saudi-Yemeni conflict. Related matters that feature in the correspondence include the following: Reports in March 1934 that peace negotiations between Saud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1914-31 May 1934
Extent:
1 volume (449 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/2130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2130
Title:
Coll 6/63 'SOUTH EASTERN ARABIA AND QATAR BOUNDARIES.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia and the southern boundary of Qatar. Much of the correspondence discusses the legal and international position of what is referred to as the 'blue line' (the frontier which marked the Ottoman Government's renunciation of its claims to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Jan 1923-12 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 volume (374 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/12/2160A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2160A
Title:
Coll 6/88 'Arabia Intelligence Report. C.B. 1892 (No. 7).'
Scope & Content:
This file refers to an Admiralty report entitled 'Arabia Intelligence Report'. The file records the India Office's receipt of a copy of the report in October 1938; it contains a supply note and a notification slip with brief details regarding the extent of the report, which according to the noti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1938-21 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/2182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2182
Title:
Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provision...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (591 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/2186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2186
Title:
Coll 7/18 'Persian Gulf: Saluting gun for Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait]'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the supply of a three-pounder saluting gun for the Shaikh of Kuwait's motor dhow, to be supplied from Admiralty stores. Details of costs and transport arrangements are provided. The correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Admiralty, and the Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1932-23 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/2189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2189
Title:
Coll 7/21 'Persian Gulf: Arms Traffic Proclamation and Notification of 1898, by the rulers of Muscat, Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait]'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and British concerns over the rights of Britain and Persia [Iran] to search ships and dhows of the Trucial Coast states within territorial waters. The file opens with a communication from the Political Resident in the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-31 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)