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IOR/L/PS/12/2160B

Record Id:

040-000557181

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

037-000557080

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x0002bb

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100042758420.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/L/PS/12/2160B

Title:

Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'

Scope & Content:

This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps, plans and photographs that are contained in the report. There then follows a small amount of correspondence between India Office, War Office, and General Staff (India) officials regarding the supply of an earlier issue of the report, dated 1939.

The second part of the file consists of the actual report, entitled 'C.B. 1892 (X) (10/41) Arabia Intelligence Report', dated October 1941, with appended maps, plans and photographs relating to Arabian Peninsula ports. The report is divided into four sections (six sections are listed in the table of contents, which lists sections one and three, most of section two, and one part of section five, as 'not issued', i.e. not printed in this edition of the report).

The first section to appear in the report is entitled 'Section II: Strategy and Tactics'; parts 1 and 3-6 of this section have been omitted, leaving part 2, which has the heading 'Possible Lines on which War Plans would be Framed'.

The next section, 'Section IV: Geography and Topography', provides an overview of the geography and topography of the Arabian Peninsula, including information about climate, transport facilities (including a table of landing grounds and seaplane anchorages), and communications.

The third section, 'Section V: Base Facilities and Maintenance of the Fleet' (from which part one has been omitted), provides a summary of principal commercial dockyards and repair bases, locations for fuel storage, supplies and storage of ammunition, fixed coastal defences, and aircraft.

The final section of the report, 'Section VI: Ports, Anchorages and Their Defences', proceeds through a number of Gulf ports in alphabetical order (i.e. Akaba, Bahrain, Doha, Hodeida and Ras Kethib, Jedda, Kamaran, Kuwait, Mukalla, and Muscat), describing each place's port facilities, anchorages and defences, as well as providing other information relating to matters such as government, commerce, water supply, transport and communications.

Enclosed with the maps and plans is a symbols chart, which lists some of the symbols used in the maps and plans.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000557080
040-000557181

Is part of:

IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/2061-2170 : Political (External) Collection 6: Arabia

IOR/L/PS/12/2160B : Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0007]/037-000557080[0101]/040-000557181

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file (63 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000555.0x0002bb

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1932

End Date:

1942

Date Range:

Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: The file is formed of two parts. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover of the first part at 1 and terminates at the inside back cover of the second part at 65; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Former External References:

Coll 6/88

Arrangement:

The Arabia Intelligence Report contains a table of contents. The maps, plans and photographs, which are listed below the table of contents, appear after the main text of the report.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)

Names:

Admiralty War Staff, Naval Intelligence Division, 1912-1964

Subjects:

Aerial photographs
Anchorage
Harbours
Landing places
Maps
Naval intelligence
Photographs
Plans
Topography

Places:

Arabian Peninsula, Asia