IOR/L/PS/12/3765

This file contains correspondence regarding the Persian Gulf Lighting Service. Specifically, this correspondence discusses transferring responsibility for this service from the Government of India to the British Government, a proposal to construct a light house at Ras al-Hadd in Oman, the abolition of a number of beacons in the region, issues that arose around lighting in the Gulf after Britain's occupation of Iran in 1941 and other related topics.

The majority of the correspondence is between British Government officials at the Ministry of Transport, the Political Residency in Bushire (Bahrain post-1947), the Foreign Office, the Government of India's External Affairs Department, the India Office and the Admiralty. The file also contains a limited amount of correspondence between British Government officials and commercial entities including the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Bahrain Petroleum Company.

In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following documents:

• 'Persian Gulf Lighting Service. Proposals by Ministry of Transport for Future Organisation' (folio 5)
• 'Note on proposed transfer of Control of the Persian Gulf Lighting Service from the Government of India to His Majesty's Government' (folios 30-32)
• 'Statement of Assets of the Persian Gulf Lighting Service Fund' (folios 136-137)
• 'Persian coast, Lighthouses, Light Vessels [sic] and Light Buoys. Meeting in Assistant Hydrographer's Room A.M. Wednesday 19th March, 1947' (folio 197)
• 'List of Navigational Aids Maintained by the Persian Gulf Lighting Service and Others in the Persian Gulf' (folio 214)
• 'Memorandum on Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf' India Office, 1912 (folios 242-250)
• 'Lighting and Buoying in the Persian Gulf' minutes of meeting at Foreign Office, 1946 (folios 254-257)
• 'Note prepared by the Engineer-in-Chief, Lighthouse Dept. on Post-war improvement of lighting in the Persian Gulf' (folios 313-323)
• Scheme for the post-war development of the Persian Gulf Lighting Service prepared by the Port Director, Basra (folios 331-337).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.