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49. ‘Seizure of the country ship Sulimanny while navigating under a British pass and colours by HM’s sloop Favorite for carrying on an illegal traffic in slaves. Application received from the Pacha of Bagdad requesting a restitution of the vessel and property could not be complied with’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai].The item relates to the seizure of a ship, the Sulimanny, accused of involvement in the slave trade, and the request of the Pacha [Governor] of Bagdad [Baghdad] that the property on board the ship be returned to the merchants in Bussorah [Basra] to whom it belongs. The item also contains an extract relating to the preparations of the Imam of Muscat to lead a force against Bahrain.Correspondents include: William Bruce, Resident at Bushire; Claudius James Rich, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia; and the Pacha of Bagdad.The title page (f 5) of the item contains the following references: ‘Political No. 4, 1819/20, Draft 100’ and ‘Examiner’s Office July 1818’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at 5, and terminates at 17, 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 volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
50. ‘File B/12 SEIZURE OF A RAS-AL-KHAIMAH BOAT AT SIRRI ISLAND’
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- Abstract: The file begins with correspondence in 1935 reporting the seizure of a dhow belonging to nakuda Salim bin Abdullah, a subject of Ras al Khaimah, by a large group of Arab inhabitants of Sirri Island, led by Ubaid bin Khalfan al Aqrubi. As a result of their enquiries, the British authorities in the Persian Gulf conclude that the seizure of the Ras al Khaimah dhow at Sirri Island in November 1935 was an act of retaliation by the islanders against the intervention of Shaikh Sultan bin Salim [Al Qasimi, Shaikh Sultan bin Salim] the Ruler of Ras al Khaimah some years earlier, in a dispute over inheritance involving one of his subjects, who was a relative and beneficiary of the estate of the deceased wife of Ubaid bin Khalfan al Aqrubi. The main correspondents investigating the incident are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, both the Political Agent and the Assistant Political Agent at Bahrain, and the Residency Agent at Sharjah whose reports are in Arabic as well as in English. Their correspondence includes both Arabic and English copies of letters and a statement made by Shaikh Sultan bin Salim the Ruler of Ras al Khaimah, and also of a witness statement made by the nakuda Salim bin Abdullah. The file ends with correspondence in 1936 relating to the settlement of the disputed inheritance and the return of the seized dhow to its owner, with the assistance of the Iranian authorities. Included in the latter correspondence are letters exchanged between officials at the British Legation in Tehran and both the Foreign Office and India Office in London, as well as a letter (in English translation) from the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs at Tehran, regarding the attitude of the British Government towards the Iranian Government’s claim to sovereignty over Sirri Island.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 79; 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 3-69; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
51. 'File 1/A/23 I Activities of the Persian Navy'
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- Abstract: The file concerns the seizure of, or interference with, Arab merchant vessels (dhows, jolly-boats, booms) by ships of the Iranian Navy, and the Iranian (often referred to as the Persian) authorities. The pretext was generally the prevention of smuggling.The correspondence is mainly between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; and the Residency Agent, Sharjah. There is also some correspondence from Gulf rulers. Enclosed or forwarded correspondence includes correspondence from the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf (SNOPG); HM Minister, Tehran; the Political Agent, Kuwait; the India Office; the Foreign Office; and other British officials in the region.The papers include: reports of individual cases of seizure of boats from Kuwait, Dubai, Sharjah, Muscat, Bahrain, and elsewhere, including statements by crew members, and naval messages issued by the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; activities of the Iranian Navy gunboats Palangand Babr; British emphasis on the need for Gulf rulers to ensure that their subjects were carrying the correct registration papers and flying their national flag, November 1933 and September 1934, and to report cases of interference as quickly as possible, November 1934 - March 1935; discussion by British officials of the Iranian right of search, March 1937; the recommendation that the Rulers of Muscat, Kuwait and Bahrain should withdraw certain rights of search conferred on the Persian Government in 1898 and 1900, and that such rights should be allowed solely to British naval vessels, July - August 1937; and the implications of the seizure at Khorramshahr of a Bahrain dhow flying the Bahrain flag, in view of the Persian claim to Bahrain, September - November 1937. The dates given refer to main, chronologically-filed items of correspondence, which may include enclosures of an earlier date.The Arabic language content of the file consists of approximately twenty-five individual items of correspondence, with English translations (mainly letters from the Political Resident; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Residency Agent, Sharjah; and Gulf rulers). There are also approximately three items of correspondence in Persian (with English translations).The date range gives the covering dates of the main items of correspondence. The earliest dated document is an enclosure to the first item of correspondence, dated 8 April 1933.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 256; 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 4-251; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in same position as the main sequence.
52. Political No. 13 of 1874, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Capture by HMS Nimbleof Two Dhows on Suspicion of their being Engaged in the Slave Trade
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 16 January 1874 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 10 February 1874, forwarding copies of papers, including letters from the Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, relating to the capture by HMS Nimbleof two dhows on suspicion of their being engaged in the trade in enslaved persons.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 129, and terminates at f 133, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 129a, f 130a, and f 132a.
53. Coll 30/187 'Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf States.'
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- Abstract: The file concerns the application to the Persian Gulf of amended prize jurisdiction in the run-up to, and following the outbreak of, the Second World War. Prize law related to the capture of enemy ships and goods during wartime. The Prize Act, 1939 extended prize law to aircraft also.The papers include: a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, concerning special measures in the Persian Gulf on the outbreak of war, April 1939, including comments on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Muscat and Oman, and the states that would automatically be at war on the side of the United Kingdom (Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Trucial Coast); copies of the Prize Act, 1939, and the Prize Courts Order in Council, 1939; India Office correspondence and minutes; correspondence from the Government of India; the special position of Muscat and Oman in terms of prize jurisdiction (e.g. folio 16); and a copy of the Reprisals Restricting German Commerce Order in Council, 1939.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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 109; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
54. File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’
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- Abstract: Papers relating to trade between Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Great Britain, in the wake of Britain’s military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and Baghdad; enquiries made to the British Government by British firms asking if they may resume trade to and from Mesopotamia; enquiries relating to goods seized and condemned by the Prize Court; the resumption of trading at Baghdad by a number of firms ‘approved’ by the British Government’s Board of Trade; enquiries by commercial firms relating to goods looted or destroyed during the military invasion of Mesopotamia. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; Henry Fountain of the Commercial Department of the Board of Trade.The file includes a single item of correspondence in French: a copy of a telegram from the Persian Consul General in Baghdad (f 144).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 inside back cover with 189; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
55. File 3104/1915 Pt 8 ‘Mesopotamia – Trade; Prize Court Proceedings re s.s. "Albistan" &c’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to the Prize Court proceedings of the SS Albistanand SS Avristan.Most of the papers relate to the case of the Albistan,which sailed from Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in October 1914 (prior to war being declared between Britain and the Ottoman Empire), arriving in London in December 1914. In January 1915 the Albistan’scargo, consisting of goods shipped from Baghdad, was seized by the Admiralty as enemy property. The file comprises correspondence between government officials, including the Foreign Office and HM’s Procurator General (Prize Department) at the Treasury, and some of the key claimants and their legal representatives in the case. These include the firms M Samuel & Company and Frederick Huth & Company, both of which were represented by Waltons & Company. The file includes details of the proceedings, as reported in Lloyd’s Liston 27 February 1917 (ff 160-161), and a copy of the judgement made at the High Court of Justice, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, dated 17 May 1918 (ff 51-54).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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 161; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.