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1. IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 505-567

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 505-567
Title:
Affairs of the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 41 of 1846, dated 15 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to affairs of the Persian Gulf. Contents relate to: hostilities with local tribes off the southern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1846
Extent:
1 item (63 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 568-594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 568-594
Title:
Passage of the Nitocris from the Euphrates to Bombay
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 42 of 1846, dated 15 April 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence relating to the passage of the steam vessel Nitocris from the river Euphrates to Bombay [Mumbai]. This item...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1846
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/69
Title:
File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
Scope & Content:
The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/659/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/4
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1D 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Shaikh Shuaib lighthouse; Kais Island lightship'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing two subjects: 1) re-erecting and improving the lighthouse and buoying at Shaikh Shuaib after the First World War and 2) various issues relating to lightships on Kais Island, specifically the following light vessels: Calc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1917-15 Apr 1926
Extent:
1 item (213 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/659/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/5
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1E 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Jask lighthouse'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the erection of a lighthouse at Jask, a useful point for ships when making entrance into the Persian Gulf. Related matters of discussion include the following: a statement of expenditure of material and increasing pric...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1918-26 Oct 1926
Extent:
1 item (53 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/659/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/659/6
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 1F 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buyoning. Rent of Kais Island light vessel'
Scope & Content:
This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the removal and the rent of the lightship called Shindi, located at Kais Island, Persian Gulf. Related matters of discussion include the following: the renting of the lightship until the erection of a lighthouse at Sheik...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1923-8 Mar 1924
Extent:
1 item (35 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B195
Title:
Navigation on the rivers of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file provides an account of the navigation of the rivers of Mesopotamia from 1640, with a series of extracts from despatches, letters, reports, a diary, a treaty, and an order. It details agreements between England and Turkey; the movements of British steamers within the region; the question...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B318
Title:
Mesopotamia: disposal of rivercraft
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a document which outlines the results of an inter-departmental conference held at the India Office in April 1919 to discuss the question of the disposal of surplus river craft in Mesopotamia which are no longer needed by the military.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)