Author
the Strick & Ellerman Line
Publication Date
1 Mar 1936-29 Mar 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
67
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1382
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x000075
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
1 Mar 1936-29 Mar 1950 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file comprises miscellaneous correspondence concerning shipping in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, including:
in March 1936, an enquiry from the Director of the Bahrain Customs House concerning the visit of the SS
Arabistan
to Muscat in February 1936 (ff 3-6);
in June 1936, a notice issued at Bahrain by the Strick & Ellerman Line, announcing that they are unable to accept Dubai cargo with transhipment at other ports (ff 9-11);
correspondence dated April 1938 relating to the Ruler of Qatar’s introduction of dues on sailing boats in Qatar ports, and the response of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the introduction of these dues, in light of their reliance on imports of fresh water from Bahrain (ff 14-19);
correspondence dated April 1939 relating to an enquiry from the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
at Mukalla [Al-Mukallā] of the whereabouts of a
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
carrying forty passengers, feared lost at sea (ff 20-23);
correspondence dated 1942 relating to a Government of India notice concerning measures to prevent the overloading of vessels, in order to prevent the jettisoning of valuable cargo at sea (ff 24-26);
correspondence dated August 1944 relating to efforts by a Tehran-based company to obtain a port manifest from Dubai, for a vessel that departed from Dubai to Khorramshahr in July 1943 (ff 29-36);
a letter relating to several incidents taking place in 1948, in which Arab dhows were boarded by an Iranian naval garrison near Kharg Island [Jazīreh-ye Khārk], which confiscated large amounts of money from the Arab
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
crews (f 40). Follow-up correspondence related to compensation payments made against these incidents can be found in IOR/R/15/2/1373;
correspondence dated from February 1949 relating to a complaint made by a subject of Umm al Qaiwain [Umm al-Qaywayn] against the Iranian authorities at Bushire, after the confiscation of rifles and a sword from his
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
. Subsequent Government correspondence concerns the usefulness of an arms permit system on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
(ff 41-47);
correspondence dated August 1949 relating to the Government of Bahrain’s refusal to give an individual named Tayeb Konji the authority to act as a shipping agent, due to his lack of experience (ff 49-42).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 61-68) mirror the chronological arrangement.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office: File 12/12
