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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Steamships

1. IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 4-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 4-27
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1838, dated 7 February 1838. The enclosures are dated 17 July-29 November 1837. The item relates to Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and cov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1838
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112
Title:
'Notes on Memo. Submitted on Iron Steam Vessels'.
Scope & Content:
Copy of a memorandum regarding the unsuitability of iron steam vessels for use on the Euphrates and Indus rivers. (With a note in pencil, by unknown author, criticizing the tone of the memorandum and asking for another opinion).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c May 1839
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 300-322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 300-322
Title:
Sending Iron Steamers on Board the Urania for Service on the Euphrates and Tigris
Scope & Content:
The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 123 of 1839, dated 20 November 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee on the subject of sending iron steamers from England on board the merchant ship Urania for service on the rivers Eup...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1839
Extent:
1 item (23 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448
Title:
The Indus steam flotilla, Scinde and Luss, Afghanistan and Bussora
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 38 of 1840, dated 22 June 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-90 and are dated 10 August 1839 to 22 June 1840. Enclosure numbers 4, 6-8, 10, 12-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1840
Extent:
1 item (249 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia
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 54 of 1840, dated 23 July 1840. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-107. There is a note on folio 745 stating that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1840
Extent:
1 item (278 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27
Title:
Euphrates Expedition
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 89 of 1840, dated 30 October 1840. The enclosure consists of a memorandum by John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444
Title:
Euphrates Flotilla
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 136 of 1842, dated 29 November 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 7 October to 30 November 1842. They consist of papers, mainly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1842
Extent:
1 item (30 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 203-211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 203-211
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 35 of 1856, dated 10 May 1856. The enclosure is dated 20 March 1856. The enclosure comprises a copy of a despatch from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1856
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 516-532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/695, ff 516-532
Title:
‘Persian Gulf: Relative to the establishment of a more frequent Steam Communication between Bushire and Bombay’
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 46 of 15 December 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 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1859-15 Dec 1859
Extent:
1 item (17 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/88/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/2
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 2 ‘Mesopotamia:- Navigation of Tigris + Euphrates; Euphrates + Tigris Steam Navigation Co; Hamidieh Co.’
Scope & Content:
Part 2 of the volume is comprised of copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed merger of the Turkish-Government-operated Hamidieh Steamship Company and the British company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Lynch Company, ETSNC). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)