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11. IOR/L/PS/10/443

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/443
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 10 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; Supply of Lighthouse Tender; the Nearchus'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, and waters around Kuwait, Bushire, and Bahrain. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures on the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1916
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/444
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 11-12 'Persian Gulf Lighting & Buoying & Lighthouses on Little Quoin, Tamb Islands & Shaikh Shuaib Island'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British authorities in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India, and Trinity House in London regarding the planning and construction of permanent navigation equipment in the Persian Gulf. Of note are some papers that discuss the need to establish British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (282 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/445
Title:
File 50/1914 Pt 13-14 'Persian Gulf Lighting & Buoying; DIP Action with Impts'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the planning and construction of marine navigation equipment, namely lighted buoys at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the northern Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mainly between British authorities in the Persian Gulf, The Foreign and Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1917
Extent:
1 volume (171 folios)

14. 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)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/173
Title:
PZ 5840/35 'Mohammerah Port Regulations'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the establishment of a Port Office at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and accompanying port regulations. The discussion in the volume relates to the following regulations: Accidents relating to water transport...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1935-29 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/371
Title:
PZ 2216/40 'Bahrain to be main collecting and temporary detention port in the Persian Gulf: question of responsibility'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter sent to the Secretary of State for India by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of the Political Agent in Bahrain, and a draft reply. The subject of the correspondence is a question of whether or not Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1940-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/830
Title:
Ext 3110/43 'Status of craft belonging to Arab States in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence and minutes between the Director General of Ports and Navigation, HM Consul-General at Basra, the Chancery, HM Ambassador at Baghdad and the Foreign Office, related to the status of ports in the Persian Gulf. Specifically, the correspondents are concerned with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1943-17 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2160B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2160B
Title:
Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2161
Title:
Coll 6/89 'Saudi Arabia: Approaches to Jedda Harbour. Interest of Standard Oil Co.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the California Arabian Standard Oil Company's interest in erecting storage tanks at Jedda, which would involve making improvements to the harbour's navigational facilities in the process. The file features the following correspondents: the California Arabian Standard Oil Compa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1938-21 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/2892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2892
Title:
Coll 17/30(1) ‘Iraq. Proposed additional outlet to the sea, in or near Koweit territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed construction of a port in Kuwait (Koweit) Bay, and the construction of a port in Um Qasr Creek. The papers mostly concern the following: The attitude of HM Government towards the proposal of the Government of Iraq for the extension of the Iraqi ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1938-19 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (530 folios)