IOR/R/15/2/701

The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the issue of ship’s warrants and other shipping regulations applicable to oil tankers passing through Bahrain during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (Milton H Lipp; Roger Anthony Kennedy; Ward P Anderson) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban).

The file includes:

• two signed statements by the Chief Local Representative (Lipp) relating to restrictions on BAPCO tankers calling at certain ports unless provided with a Navicert by the appropriate British authority (ff 2-4, ff 5-7);
• throughout the file, copies of temporary ship warrants issued at Bahrain, and returned to the Political Agent by the Chief Local Representative of BAPCO. Each warrant indicates the name of the vessel, the flag under which it flies, its gross registered tonnage, and its owners or charter, and is signed and dated by the Political Agent;
• copies of temporary warrants and documentation issued by other authorities: the Commissioner of Customs for Kenya and Uganda (f 17); and His Majesty’s Consul at Port Said (f 31);
• other correspondence relating to ship’s warrants, including requests for the renewal of warrants, and ships without warrants requiring facilities at Bahrain;
• a note from the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway) to the Chief Local Representative of BAPCO, dated 24 March 1946, stating that all ship warrants which have been extended for the duration of the war will remain valid until such time as the ship warrant scheme is discontinued (f 75).