Abstract: This volume contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office Political and Secret Department minute papers, relating to naval incidents in the Persian Gulf, and visits of British warships to Persian ports.It includes correspondence regarding the following: the Persian Government’s objection to British shipping, including HM Ships, calling at Persian ports without notice; the reporting of movements of British warships in the Persian Gulf; the treatment of HM ships in Persian ports, including Persian quarantine and customs procedure at Henjam and Abadan; incidents which took place on the occasions of the visits of HM Ships
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Crocusto Abadan and Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas] respectively; the Persian draft bill regarding territorial waters; discussions between the Admiralty and the Foreign Office concerning the drafting of an article to regulate visits of British warships to Persian ports, for inclusion in a General Treaty between Britain and Persia; and new regulations imposed by the Persian Government in connection with the landing of officers and crews and of visits of vessels to Persian ports.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Foreign Office (including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain); HM Minister, Tehran (Sir Percy Lorraine, Sir Robert Henry Clive, and Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, successively); HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran; the Admiralty; the Colonial Office; the Minister of Court, Persia (Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Taimourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh, also spelled Teymourtache in the correspondence]); the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; and the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.The file includes several documents in French, including: correspondence between Sir R H Clive and Taimourtache; copies of documents entitled ‘Projet de Loi portant Réglement des Conditions d’Admission des Bateaux étrangers dans les Eaux persanes’ (Draft Law Regulating the Conditions of Admission of Foreign Vessels in Persian Waters) ‘Traduction de l'Instruction adressée par l'Administration centrale de l'Hygiène à ses Fonctionnaires au golfe Persique’ (Translation of the instructions sent by the Public Health Department to its officials in the Persian Gulf) and ‘La Quarantaine à Henjam’ (Quarantine in Henjam); correspondence between HM Minister, Tehran, and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs; letters from the Director of Customs, Bushire, to HM Consul, Bushire; and articles of draft General Treaty with Persia.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 825; 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 present in parallel between ff 114-119; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This volume contains papers relating to the policy of HM Government in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations between the British and Persian [Iranian] Governments for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia.Part 8 mostly concerns the question of whether Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast Shaikhdoms should become formal British protectorates. Part 11 concerns the policy of HM Government in the Persian Gulf in relation to the treaty negotiations.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 291; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to communications between British authorities in the Persian Gulf.The papers mainly concern the following: the sharing of telegraphic communications between the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident at Bushire, the British Legation at Tehran, and the Government of India; and the channel of communication to be adopted when air matters were under discussion between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Air Officer Commanding in Iraq.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Admiralty; the Foreign Office; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Colonial Office; and the Air Ministry. This part also includes internal correspondence between India Office officials.Physical description: 1 item (94 folios)
Abstract: The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to political control in the Persian Gulf and Middle East, specifically the division of responsibility for this region between the India Office and the Government of India, the Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office.It includes papers relating to the following recommendations of Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff, made in an Air Staff Memorandum dated 8 May 1928: that the responsibilities of the Colonial Office should be extended to include Koweit [Kuwait], the Trucial Chiefs, and all political questions concerning the countries contiguous with Arabia; that one department of the Government, with the Air Ministry as advisers on air matters, should be made responsible for political and administrative action in Arabia, or at least in Iraq, Aden and Transjordan; and that the India Office and the Government of India should consider relieving themselves of their direct political and administrative responsibilities connected with Arabia. The related papers include those relating to the counter-proposal of the Government of India that a degree of the control removed from them following the report of the Masterton-Smith Committee of 1921 should be restored, and that they should now resume the position in the Gulf that they held before the First World War with regard to Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait, Muscat and the Trucial Chiefs.The file also includes papers concerning the following:The proposals of Sir John Cadman (Chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Iraq Petroleum Company) in a letter to the Prime Minister of August 1929 that control of the Middle East should be centralised under a single department of HM GovernmentLord Trenchard’s motion in the House of Lords of 20 May 1931 to ask whether HM Government would make a statement concerning an enquiry into the unification of control and policy in the Middle EastLord Lamington’s motion of 27 April 1932 to ask HM Government whether the desirability of having the affairs of the Arabic speaking peoples of Arabia, Egypt and the Sudan being dealt with by one Government Office had been consideredLord Lloyd’s motion of 21 March 1935 to call attention to the economic and political situation in the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; Hastings Lionel Ismay, Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Foreign Office; and the Colonial Office. Other correspondents include: the Air Ministry; the Admiralty Military Branch; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Lord Trenchard; and John Cadman.Other papers in the file include India Office internal correspondence, India Office Political Department minute papers, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, extracts from minutes of the House of Lords, and the following:Notes by the India Office for the Sub-Committee on Political Control of the Committee of Imperial Defence Persian Gulf Sub-Committee, entitled ‘De Facto Position as Regards Political Arrangements in the Persian Gulf’ and ‘Distribution of (British) Administrative Responsibility in the Persian Gulf’Draft minutes of the 249th meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence on 14 July 1930Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 381; 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 present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Residency in the Persian Gulf, and Trinity House in London about lighting and buoying operations in the Gulf near the Shatt al Arab waterway. Most of the correspondence relates to the placement of maritime lighting indicators to facilitate the navigation of the northern reaches of the Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 357; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the construction and maintenance of buoying and lighting facilities in the Persian Gulf, primarily for the Quoin Island Lighthouse. The letters are exchanges between the Government of India and British Authorities in the Persian Gulf, and mainly discuss the cost and logistical arrangements for the construction of the permanent navigation equipment in the Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 210; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the planning and construction of marine navigation equipment, namely lighted buoys at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the northern Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mainly between British authorities in the Persian Gulf, The Foreign and Political Department in India and the India Office in London.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 173; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British authorities in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India, and Trinity House in London regarding the planning and construction of permanent navigation equipment in the Persian Gulf. Of note are some papers that discuss the need to establish British rather than Persian or Turkish buoys and lighthouses so as to ensure the dominance of British shipping and Naval power.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 284; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the buoying of navigation routes and shipping lines in the Persian Gulf. The papers discuss the costs, logistical requirements and standardisation of lighting and marking of buoys in the Gulf. The file contains a variety of discussions by the various parties involved in maintaining the Persian Gulf's maritime navigation infrastructure.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 313; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures of the new navigation aids for ships. A minority of the papers document some geo-political concerns regarding the presence of Turkish ships in the Persian Gulf, and the Ottoman State's possible intention to maintain a permanent presence in the Gulf.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 196; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the instalment and maintenance of lighting and other navigation facilities in the Persian Gulf, and particularly around the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, and waters around Kuwait, Bushire, and Bahrain. Most of the papers pertain to the capital expenditures on the new navigation aids for ships.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 233; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains letters relating to the construction of a lighthouse depot on Abadan Island, in Persia. The papers are exchanges between British authorities in the Persian Gulf, Trinity House in London, and the British Government of India. The bulk of the papers relate to the replacement of the former site of the depot for its new location at Fao at the mouth of the Shatt al Arab waterway.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 131; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.