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61. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 129-159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 129-159
Title:
Muscat: Wreck of the Schooner "Good Hope".
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 24 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1859-23 May 1859
Extent:
1 item (31 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/10/155/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/155/2
Title:
File 3208/1908 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Fuwairat piracy case’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to an incident taking place at Fuwairat, Qatar, in October 1909, in which a Persian vessel bound for Bahrain carrying a cargo of goats and firewood, was alleged by its nakhuda to have been deliberately scuppered on rocks by the inhabitants of Fuwairat, and the cargo then ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1912
Extent:

29 folios

63. IOR/L/PS/10/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/215
Title:
File 332/1912 'Sokotra: looting of the Kuala; Development of Socotra'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and minutes relating to the looting of the SS Kuala by inhabitants of Socotra following its grounding off the coast of the island in November 1911. Some of the correspondence is included as enclosures, sometimes in the form of printed collect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1911-Jun 1920
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/12/260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/260
Title:
PZ 6253/1938 'Shipwreck of a party of Muscat Arabs - Qn. of recovery of expenses incurred by Govt. of Italian Somaliland'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning: the shipwreck on the coast of Italian Somaliland, on 20 March 1938, of a group of Muscat Arabs on board the dhow [sailing vessel] ‘Galib’, bound for Zanzibar and the Tanganyika Territory; and the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1938-17 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/12/731

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/731
Title:
Ext 3485/42 'Destruction at Abadan of SS Suisang'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the British Consulate in Khorramshar, transmitted to the India Office by the British Legation at Tehran, on the subject of the SS Suisang, a British India Steam Navigation Company's ship which caught fire at Abadan whilst loading aviation petrol, and was sunk. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
06 May 1942-03 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

66. IOR/R/15/1/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/100
Title:
'Book 140 1843' letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, who was in charge of the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire, from August to October 1843. Later letters were received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1843-2 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

67. IOR/R/15/1/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/102
Title:
'Book 142 1844' letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, between January and June 1844. The letters contain information, guidance and instructions from the Governor in Coun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1843-27 Jun 1844
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

68. IOR/R/15/1/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/134
Title:
‘Vol 182 1852/53 Persia; Slave Trade; Muscat; Commerce; miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded by Captain Arnold Kemball. Correspondence in the volume falls under the following headings: Persia, Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1852-23 Nov 1852
Extent:
1 volume, 38 items (57 folios)

69. IOR/R/15/1/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/143
Title:
Vol 195 1854/55 Bahrain; Arab Coast and Muscat; Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume’s correspondence covers three subjects, as follows: Affairs at Bahrain (folios 2-165): the hostilities between Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain, and Shaikh Muḥammad’s estranged relatives based at Dammām, in cohort with Fayṣal ibn Turki’s forces at Al-Qaṭīf; naval ope...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1854-12 May 1855
Extent:
1 volume (389 folios, 109 items)

70. IOR/R/15/1/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157
Title:
‘Vol 224 1856/57 Bahrain; Abu Dhabi; Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah; Hamriya; Muscat and Bandar `Abbas; Slave Trade’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to a number of subjects, listed below. The principal correspondents throughout are Commander (James) Felix Jones, initially Acting Resident, then Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1855-21 Mar 1857
Extent:
2 volumes, 96 items (309 folios)