'Corr. re: Visits of Foreign Warships to Bahrain'

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Correspondence discusses visits of foreign warships to Bahrain. Topics discussed include:

• Visit in 1935 of French warship "Bougainville" with Admiral Rivet on board and protocol in terms of gun salutes, uniforms worn, and programme of exchange of calls and dinner arrangements. Includes hand-written note (folio 20A) in French from Rear-Admiral Rive, arrangements for delivery of fish and vegetables to the warship, and a report on the visit. Also notes from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave to Colonel Loch about three pictures (not in file) of the French man-of-war by local artists.
• Arrangements for a visit of a French sloop "d'Iberville" in 1937 calling at Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat and Aden. The vessel carried a hydroplane and flew the flag of Rear-Admiral Fernet commanding la Division Navale du Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. . Correspondence includes the list of attendees for a party at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. the seating plan of the dinner party for Contre-Amiral Fernet (folio 96). Correspondence discusses how to avoid an unarranged visit to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Arrangements were made for Rear-Amiral Fernet to go round the Bahrain Petroleum Company oil field.
• Arrangements for a visit in 1939 of the French sloop "d'Iberville" with Rear-Admiral Carpentier, Commandant la Division Navale du Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. .

Correspondents include: Colonel G. Loch, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; 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; Assistant 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; Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifah, Ruler of Bahrain; Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; Rear-Admiral Rivent, Commandant la Division Navale du Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. ; 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. , Kuwait; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser, Bahrain Government; C W Baxter, Foreign Office, London; M J Clauson, 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. , London; J S Black, Chief Local Representative, The Bahrain Petroleum Company; Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain.

Extent and format

1 volume (161 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.

Written in

English, Arabic and French in Latin and Arabic 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/15/2/1104

Former external reference(s)

English Office Files: 3/20

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Feb 1935-17 Feb 1939 (CE, Gregorian)

People & organisations

French Navy

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