IOR/R/15/2/227

This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, British Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the Commonwealth Relations Office, London; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; Captain T R Frederick of the USS Rendova; Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary; Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah; and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī.

The correspondence concerns visits of United States Naval ships to the Persian Gulf between 1947 and in 1949, including U.S.S. Toledo (May 1947); U.S.S. Valley Forge (March 1948); U.S.S. Rendova and U.S.S. C H Roan (May 1948); USS Greenwich Bay, USS Carpellotti and USS Siboney (August 1948); and USS Maury (November 1949). There are details the United States Naval Task Force in the Persian Gulf and its photographic survey activities, as well as United States Navy relations with the British Agency and Residency at Bahrain, the Sheikhs of Bahrain and Qatar, Arab merchants, and the European and American communities in the Persian Gulf.