Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Digitization for the Arab Image Foundation Photo Negatives collection was sponsored by an Emergency Grant from the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Abstract: This volume consists almost entirely of letters received by the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy from the senior Indian Navy officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron (acting or otherwise). Most of the letters are addressed to a named recipient and the bulk of these are addressed to Rear Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke; the remaining letters are addressed to Leeke's successor, George Greville Wellesley. The first correspondent stated as being in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron is Commodore Richard Ethersey; the second correspondent to appear in this role is Acting Commodore John William Young. Ethersey and Young are succeeded in this role by James Rennie, who is credited initially as Acting Commodore and later as Senior Naval Officer in command of the Persian Gulf Squadron. Most of the letters in this volume are from James Rennie.Some of the letters contain enclosures from other correspondents including: Major William Henry Rhodes Green; Gordon Asher, Assistant Surgeon in Medical Charge of the Honourable Company steam frigate, the
Feerooz; Commander William Beaumont Selby, Indian Navy, Commander of the Euphrates flotilla.Only one of James Rennie's letters is addressed to a recipient other than the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy. The letter in question is addressed to Robert Barclay Chapman, Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India.The letters primarily discuss the movements of vessels belonging to the Persian Gulf Squadron. A couple of letters include lists of vessels which have arrived and/or sailed from Bushire, along with details of their cargo. Several of the letters concern the Persian Gulf Squadron's involvement in the Anglo-Persian War and in the Battle of Mahomerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] in particular. Other subjects covered include: matters relating to naval officers, including appointments, examinations, resignations and deaths; the states of repair of some of the Squadron's ships; the discovery of two shoals in the Persian Gulf which do not appear in existing charts; accounts of coal reserves at Bushire, Bassadore [Bāsaʻīdū] and Muscat; the state of the pier at Bassadore.Physical description: Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 169. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the volume.
Abstract: This file consists of several telegrams discussing the migration of the Senior Naval Officer of the Persian Gulf's headquarters. The correspondence is between the Government of India, External Affairs Department, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Secretary of State for India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file consists of a single page announcing the succession of the post United States Naval Observer to the American Consulate at Aden.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 3; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Distinctive features:Title deed plan dated 8th Safar, 1363, corresponding with 3rd February 1944.Shows plot of land situated at Umm al Hasam, Manamah which was exchanged for the land situated in Ghosaibia, Manamah in order to provide space for the Royal Navy base at Jufair.Labelled and coloured for reference with measurements reported.Physical description: Materials:Pen and ink with wash on tracing clothDimensions:190 x 200 mm, on sheet 266 x 225 mm
Abstract: Distinctive features:Title deed plan dated 6th Safar, 1363, corresponding with 1st February 1944.Shows plot of land situated at Ghosaibia, Manamah which was exchanged for the land situated in Umm al Hasam, Manamah in order to provide space for the Royal Navy base at Jufair.Labelled and coloured for reference with measurements reported.Physical description: Materials:Pen and ink with wash on tracing clothDimensions:140 x 160 mm, on sheet 276 x 225 mm
Abstract: The file contains papers mainly relating to the intention of the Government of Iraq to form a small river fleet.The papers mostly consist of the following: copies of correspondence between Robert Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Archibald Clark Kerr, HM Ambassador to Iraq, and between Kerr and George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office; a copy of a letter from Sidney Hill Phillips of the [British] Admiralty to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; an India Office Political Department minute paper; and an extract from the Persian Gulf Intelligence Report, December 1935.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14; 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 2-13; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following:The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), near BahrainThe use of Masirah Bay by the Royal Navy as a port of assemblyThe proposed provision of additional facilities for aircraft at Socotra (also spelled Sokotra in the file) and Salalah in Muscat territory, for action against enemy warships (including the question of whether Britain was bound under Article 6 of the 1938 Anglo-Italian Agreement regarding certain areas in the Middle East to notify the Italian Government of the measures to be taken at Sokotra and Salalah)The proposed acquisition of permanent facilities for the Royal Air Force on Masirah Island, and the question of whether this should take place through the purchase or lease of Masirah Island from the Sultan of Muscat, or the exchange of Masirah Island for the Kuria Muria Islands, accompanied by cash compensation for the Sultan of Muscat.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Admiralty; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Commander in Chief, East Indies; the Political Agent and HM Consul, Muscat; Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat and Oman; the Government of India External Affairs Department; the Foreign Office; the Air Ministry; the Royal Air Force Middle East Headquarters; the Colonial Office; and the Treasury.The file also includes:A copy of a Foreign Office Eastern Department paper, dated 25 April 1938, regarding the Anglo-Italian Agreement regarding certain areas of the Middle EastDraft minutes of meetings between representatives of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Air Ministry, the Treasury, and the Colonial Office, held on 13 April and 8 September 1944, to discuss the proposed purchase or lease of Masirah IslandA Cabinet joint memorandum by the Air Ministry and the India Office on the proposed acquisition of Masirah Island as a permanent RAF base, dated 29 May 1945, which includes a map showing the location of Masirah Island [IOR/L/PS/12/3928, f 61], and draft versions of the memorandum.In addition, the file includes a copy of an aide memoire in Italian from the Italian Air Ministry to the Air Attaché of the British Embassy, Rome, dated 13 March 1940, of which there is a copy of an English translation.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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 483; 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 officials concerning their response to the Government of Iran's desire to establish a navy in the Persian Gulf. Topics discussed include what role the British Government should play in terms of supplying ships, personnel and training and the subsequent role of the Italian Government in this regard. Much of the later correspondence in the file relates to the specifics of Italy's involvement in supplying Iran's fledgling naval force.The file contains a limited amount of correspondence in French between Britain's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Sir Robert Henry Clive and the Iranian Minister, Abdolhossein Teymourtash.In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:'Report of Visit to Persian Gunboat "Babr" on 20th January 1935' (folios 22-23)'Precis of conversation with Lieutenant Bucconi of the Italian Navy attached to the Persian Navy', 1933 (folios 46-48)'Anglo-Persian Negotiations. Suggested sale to Persia by Great Britain of Patrol Vessels for anti-contraband work in Persian Gulf, and proposed British Naval Mission for Persia' (folios 237-248)'Persian Naval Proposals' - minutes of meetings held on the topic at the Foreign Office in 1929 (folios 292-302, 272-283).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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 311; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding measures under consideration by the British government for preventing encroachments by Japanese and other foreign vessels on Arab pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf.The correspondence is between: J P Gibson of the India Office, and T V Brennan and Lacy Baggallay of the Foreign Office; and Gibson and the Office of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file also includes a copy of a letter from Sir Trenchard Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, Simla.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 19; 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 2-18; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.