‘File 28/2 War. Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf states’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘File 28/2 War. Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf states’
- Date:
- 1939/1943
- Description:
- Abstract: The file comprises copies of official notices and correspondence relating to prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf (the capture of enemy vessels and cargo) during the Second World War, based on the understanding, as described in a letter from the Political Resident to his Agents, dated 16 November 1939, that, ‘as Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States are on the side of Great Britain the Crown has the right to exercise prize jurisdiction in these States’ (ff 2-3).The file includes:two printed copies of a booklet entitled Provisional Rules and Orders, 1939: Prize Courts: Order in Council dated September 2, 1939. Made under Section 3 of the Prize Courts Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. C. 39)(ff 6-59, ff 61-114);a printed copy of an Order in Council entitled Reprisals for restricting German Commerce, dated 27 November 1939 (ff 117-118), and a press statement, issued by the Press Section of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, dated 28 November 1939, relating to the issue of the Order in Council (f 120);correspondence relating to a Danish tanker, the Eleonora Maersk(also spelt Elonora Maerskand Eleanora Mearsk) which arrived in Bahrain from Iran, in April 1940. In a letter to the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior) the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) stated that the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf has received instructions from the East Indies Commander-in-Chief that the vessel should be sent to Karachi, presumably as prize (ff 121-124);a Department of Commerce notification, dated 31 August 1940, stating that measures taken against German shipping can now be applied to Italian shipping (f 131);communications relating to prize procedure in respect of Finland, Hungary, Rumania [Romania] and Japan (ff 139-142).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 146; 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 2-6, f 60, and ff 119-143, the intermediate folios being skipped; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: two printed booklets are present in the file (see ff 6-59 and ff 61-114); these booklets each have their own original printed pagination sequence. The file notes at the back of the file (144-145) have also been paginated using pencil.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Naval prizes
Second World War (1939-1945)
Eleonora Maersk, Danish tanker - Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000044_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000044_en
IOR/R/15/2/675
IOR/R/15/2/675