'File 8/23 III Cargo Returns'

Content

The file consists of fortnightly reports on ships entering and departing the port of Bahrain between June 1944 and August 1948. Each report is compiled by the Director of Customs and Port Officer and comes in the form of a table with the following information:

• name of ship;
• nationality of ship;
• name of owners;
• date of arrival;
• date of departure;
• number of packages landed at Bahrain (in tonnes);
• number of packages transhipped to the mainland (in tonnes);
• quantity (in tonnes) and nature of cargo shipped from Bahrain (including goods from mainland transhipped at Bahrain);
• destination.

Included within the file is correspondence between the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the Director of Customs and Port Officer. This is mostly concerned with the exclusion of figures on petroleum products in the reports, which was viewed as a security risk during the Second World War. From May 1947 these figures were reintroduced. From July 1947 they were included as separate statements to those on general cargo.

Folios 144-53 are internal office notes.

Extent and format

1 file (152 folios)

Arrangement

The file is arranged chronologically.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 154; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-63; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/324

Former external reference(s)

File 8/23 III

History of this record

Date(s)

2 Jul 1944-17 Aug 1948 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ShippingReports

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