Author
the Director of Customs and Port Officer
Publication Date
16 Dec 1929-21 Jan 1930 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
38
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1188
Record ID
vdc_100000000241.0x00035b
Library Location
British Library:
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
Records and
Private Papers
Documents collected in a private capacity.
Date
16 Dec 1929-21 Jan 1930 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file concerns the decision of the agents of the German Hansa Line ship SS
Barenfels
to declare 'general average' after the vessel ran aground at the Fesht al Djibal (a reef off the east coast of Bahrain). (The location is spelled Fesht al Dhijbal in the title of the file). General average is a legal principle of maritime law according to which all parties in a sea venture proportionally share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency. Following the declaration of general average, a number of local merchants in Bahrain who had cargo on the
Barelfels
refused to make the required 5% payment on the invoice value of the ship's cargo or to sign the general average bond, and made various complaints against the agents. The file contains correspondence between the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis deGrenier); the agents of the Hansa Line, Mohamed Sharif H. Kutbuddin Awazi and Company, Bahrain; and local merchants.
The Arabic language content of the file is largely confined to a bilingual notice in English and Arabic issued by the Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain on folio 4.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office files: 5/6
