Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2349/123808. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Acting Governor of Muskat [Muscat]. It is the twenty-second in a series of twenty-four items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The incursions of Sheik Syf ben Humood [Sayyid Sayf bin Hamūd Āl Bū Sa‘īd] onto Syed Soweynee’s territoryThe ambitions of Sheik Sultan ben Sugger [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Sharjah and Ra’s al-Khaymah] to attack Khor Fakawn [Khawr Fakkan, also written as Khai Fakawn], Kulla [Kalba], and Shinas [also written as Shiras]The circumstances under which Muscat gained control of Khor Fakawn from Sultan ben Sugger.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 334 of 1850’, ‘Coll[ection] 4’, and ‘Collection No 2 of No 1’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 405, and terminates at f 413 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Hajee Jassem [Ḥājjī Jāsim], British Agent at Bahrein [Bahrain]; and Moollah Houssein [Mullā Ḥusayn], British Agent at Shargah [Sharjah]. It is the sixth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns:The history and actions of Suheil ben Ateish [Suhayl bin ‘Uṭaysh], a ‘pirate’ accused of seizing a vessel from Bahrein and taking its cargo and four enslaved members of the crew, and the attempts of Sheik Saeed bin Tahnoon of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi] to capture himAn attempt by Saeed bin Tahnoon to mediate between Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat and Saad ben Mutluk [Sa‘d bin Muṭlaq], an agent of Ameer Fysul [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]The intention of Sheik Sultan ben Sugger of Rasul Khyma [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī of Ra’s al-Khaymah] to attack Khor Fakaun [Khawr Fakkan], held by the Governor of MuscatThe murder of Sinan ben Suleyman [Sinān bin Sulaymān] by Saad ben MutlukThe deterioration of the friendship between Sheik Abdullah ben Rashid of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā of Umm al-Qaywayn] and Sheik Mukhtoom of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh of Dubai].The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 70, and terminates at f 89 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2376/126162. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Commodore John Porter, Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of fifteen items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns Porter’s report of his cruise around the Persian Gulf, including relations between the shaikhs of Debaye [Dubai], Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and Bhrymee [Al Buraymi], and the future intentions of Fisal bin Turky [Amīr Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd]. The item also mentions an enslaved man who ran away from an Aboothabee boat, and two Joasmee [al-Qawāsim] boats which were forced by bad weather to put in at Khor Fakaun [Khawr Fakkan] and subsequently detained there by forces belonging to the Imam of Muscat.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 745 of 1850’, and ‘Coll[ection] No 5’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 65, and terminates at f 69 as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to enemy submarine activity in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman throughout the War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban; Edward Birkbeck Wakefield; Major Tom Hickinbotham); the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast (POTC: Captain Roy Douglas Metcalfe; Captain Maurice O’Connor Tandy); and the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG: Commodore Cosmo Moray Graham; Commodore Charles Ford Hammill).The file includes:various reports of sightings of enemy submarines (f 4, f 14, ff 48-52);the ramming and sinking of the Italian submarine
Galvaniby HMS
Falmouth, off the Oman coast in June 1940 (f 2);correspondence and memoranda relating to the import from India into Bahrain and the Trucial Coast of distilled water, which might indicate the possible presence in the area of an enemy submarine (distilled water being required for repairs to submarine batteries) (ff 5-10). Government of India correspondence raises concerns over distilled water imports into Bahrain by Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo [Khalīl Ibrāhīm Kānū], though the Political Agent writes that Kanoo imports his water for car servicing and is above suspicion (ff 16-17). Further imports of distilled water into Bahrain and the Trucial Coast are closely monitored (ff 19-24, f 30);reports of a heavy explosion off the coast of Kalba in January 1941, with fresh oil seen on the sea shortly thereafter (ff 25-26);a note on enemy submarine activity off the Mekran [Makran] coast, prepared by H K Dawson Shepherd of the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq (CICI), dated 14 February 1943, with details on: German and Japanese interests in Persia; German agents in Persia; reports of a German submarine landing arms at Jask; the possibility of U-Boats making contact with the Persian coast (ff 33-34);investigation into the background of a resident of Khor Fakkan [Khawr Fakkān] in November 1943, believed to have pro-Axis sympathies, and whose presence at Khor Fakkan is considered suspicious in light of the sinking of a submarine off the coast of Khor Fakkan (f 37). A report by the POTC reveals that no pro-Axis connections or suspicious activities have been discovered (ff 35-36, f 43);a request by the SNOPG, 17 November 1943, to investigate the Danish employees of a fish canning factory at Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], some of whom may hold pro-German sympathies (f 39).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 58; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-53; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. Paginated: the file notes at the back (ff 54-57) have been paginated using pencil.