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5701. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 121
Title:
WEST INDIA ISLANDS AND CARIBBEAN SEA. SHEET I. COMPRISING FLORIDA STRAIT, BAHAMA ISLANDS AND GREATER ANTILLES. Compiled from most recent surveys. 1876. With corrections to 1937.
Scope & Content:
Published at the Admiralty, London, 3 July 1876. New editions and corrections listed to 1947. Soundings listed in fathoms. Settlements, roads, hydrology, and relief indicated. Letter from the Admiralty to the Colonial Office dated 24 March 1947 (folio 119) relates to this map.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:

1 map

5702. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 173
Title:
ASIA. PERSIAN GULF
Scope & Content:
Hydrographic Office map showing the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, with a number of inset maps (including Doha and Abu Dhabi), and views of the coast and islands from the sea. Compiled from surveys by Captain John Michael Guy and Captain George Barnes Brucks, 1821-29, and by Commander Charles Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 map

5703. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 175
Title:
Map of Kuwait Bay
Scope & Content:
Part of a chart showing the extent of the territorial waters of Kuwait Bay. The map gives the area of Kuwait Bay as 215 square miles calculated on a line X-Y indicated on the map by a blue dotted line. A letter from the Admiralty dated 26 September 1946 to the India Office (folio 174) relates ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946
Extent:
1 map

5704. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 327
Title:
Map of Kuwait Bay
Scope & Content:
Part of a chart showing the extent of the territorial waters of Kuwait Bay. The map gives the area of Kuwait Bay as 215 square miles calculated on a line X-Y indicated on the map. A letter from the Admiralty dated 12 June 1940 to the India Office (folio 326) relates to this map. Scale not giv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 map

5705. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 365
Title:
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939
Extent:
1 map

5706. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 366
Title:
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939
Extent:
1 map

5707. IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924, f 367
Title:
Map Showing the Boundary of an Area outside Kuwait Territorial Waters
Scope & Content:
Part of chart 2837B used to indicate an area outside the limit of Kuwait territorial waters (by means of a red line drawn on the map). Scale 1 inch = 27 miles. Correspondence from the Kuwait Oil Company to the India Office, dated July 1939, including a copy of a letter from Frank Holmes, the L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939
Extent:
1 map

5708. IOR/L/PS/12/3925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3925
Title:
Coll 30/187 'Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf States.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the application to the Persian Gulf of amended prize jurisdiction in the run-up to, and following the outbreak of, the Second World War. Prize law related to the capture of enemy ships and goods during wartime. The Prize Act, 1939 extended prize law to aircraft also. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1939-21 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

5709. IOR/L/PS/12/3926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3926
Title:
Coll 30/188 'Kuwait: Mining for Sulphur by Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and a new company, the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited (formed from American interests in the Kuwait Oil Company), to explore for deposits of sulphur in Kuwait. Sulphur was u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1940-28 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

5710. IOR/L/PS/12/3927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3927
Title:
Coll 30/190 'Bahrein: Qn. of the institution of a Bahrein "Order".'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns two issues ('Qn.' stands for 'question' in the file title): (1) the award by Pope Pius XII of a papal decoration (the Grand Cross of the Order of St Sylvester) to Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler of Bahrain; and (2) the decision of Shaikh ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4 Mar 1940-26 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

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