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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, 1822-1971 Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 100-237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 100-237
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 126 of 1842, dated 31 October 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-47 and are dated 1 September to 29 October 1842. There is no abstract of conten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1842
Extent:
1 item (138 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1099
Title:
File 4480/1923 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Naval Incidents: Visits of British Warships to Persian Ports: Persian Territorial Waters Bill.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office Political and Secret Department minute papers, relating to naval incidents in the Persian Gulf, and visits of British warships to Persian ports. It includes correspondence regarding the following: the Persian Government’s obje...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Nov 1923-8 May 1934
Extent:

1 volume (823 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1267
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Tamb. (and Abu Musa)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the ownership and sovereignty of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa (and Little Tamb and Sirri) in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. The papers mainly consist of correspondence and India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1928-29 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (535 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2198
Title:
Coll 7/29 'Persian Gulf: gun running into Persia; reconditioning of Persian patrol craft seized by HMG in 1941 during operations; postwar rehabilitation of Persian Navy'
Scope & Content:
Extensive correspondence regarding the trafficking of arms to Persia [Iran], the resumption of arms and (to a lesser extent) slave trafficking in the Gulf of Oman, and the reconstitution of the Persian Navy following the Second World War (1939-1945). The file opens with reports of arms being sm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1934-20 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (307 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2209

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2209
Title:
Coll 7/40 'Persia: carrying of arms by Persian authorities while escorting prisoners on British boats'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding British India Steamship Navigation Company regulations that armed Persian [Iranian] Officers should give up their weapons when transporting prisoners on vessels flying the British flag. The correspondence dated 1930 concerns the arrest of Sirdar Din Mohamed of Dashtyari...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jul 1930-24 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)