IOR/L/PS/12/3777

This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning an incident in which a Kuwaiti vessel named Fath-ul-Khair was stopped and searched by a Government of Iran war vessel off of the coastline of Bushire.

The majority of the correspondence in the file is between officials at the British Legation in Tehran, the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Political Residency and the India Office. It also contains correspondence between British officials and the Government of Iran and two letters from the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah to the Political Agency in Kuwait concerning the incident.

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

• 'Complaints against Persia in respect of "Dhow Incidents" in Persian Gulf' (folios 3-4)
• 'Cases of interference with vessels or violation of territory belonging to the Arab protégés of His Majesty's Government in the Persian Gulf by Persian Warships or Customs Authorities' (folios 11-12)
• 'Note on the position of the Kuwaiti dhow forming the subject of Bushire despatch no. 27.B of June 16th, 1933' (folio 33)
• 'Translation of a complaint of the Master of the Kuwait "Indiaman" (Bum) "Fath al Khair", No. 145, by name Bilal al Saqar to His Excellency the Shaikh of Kuwait' (folios 43-44).

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.