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IOR/R/15/6/459
- Record Id:
- 040-000242964
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000242469
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000881.0x0000ea
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076237121.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/6/459
- Title:
- File 17/7 Boat for the use of the Political Agent, Muscat
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains correspondence and documents, primarily invoices and receipts, concerning the supply of sailing vessels and related parts to the Political Agency in Muscat. Much of this correspondence relates to the purchase of a Montagu whaler boat (generally referred to in the papers erroneously as a 'Montague Whaler'), and to the purchase of replacement parts for the boat in the years that followed. The vessel was required as a replacement for the Political Agency's rowing boat, which had been wrecked in a storm.
Correspondence towards the rear of the volume discusses the supply of a new boat for the Political Agency in Muscat to use for the duration of the Second World War and the construction of a new shed in which to store the Montagu whaler. Also enclosed are a number of replies to an advertisement in the Times of India, regarding the purchase of a replacement motor for the whaler, which was placed by Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban, the Political Agent in Muscat.
The principal correspondents in the volume are officials from the Political Agency in Muscat, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Naval Store Officer of Her Majesty's Indian Marine in Bombay [Mumbai] and a number of private naval and timber contractors. The volume also contains a limited amount of correspondence between the Political Agency in Muscat and officials of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman that is in Arabic (accompanied by English translations).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000242469
037-000242557
038-000242958
040-000242964 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/6 : Political Agency, Muscat
IOR/R/15/6/70-472 : Muscat Agency, Subject Files
IOR/R/15/6/454-463 : File 17: Government Property
IOR/R/15/6/459 : File 17/7 Boat for the use of the Political Agent, Muscat - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0006]/036-000242469[0003]/037-000242557[0018]/038-000242958[0006]/040-000242964
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (237 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000881.0x0000ea
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1925
- End Date:
- 1943
- Date Range:
- 18 Feb 1925-19 Apr 1943
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 239; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 8-223; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Former External References:
- File 17/7
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)