Coll 6/88 'Intelligence: Military Report on Arabia (C.B. 1892).'

Content

This file consists of two parts. The first part (folios 1-9) begins with a 'state of report' document for an Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division report entitled 'Arabia, Intelligence Report'; the 'state report' concerns the updating of the report in October 1941, and it includes a list of maps, plans and photographs that are contained in the report. There then follows a small amount of correspondence between 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. , War Office, and General Staff (India) officials regarding the supply of an earlier issue of the report, dated 1939.

The second part of the file consists of the actual report, entitled 'C.B. 1892 (X) (10/41) Arabia Intelligence Report', dated October 1941, with appended maps, plans and photographs relating to Arabian Peninsula ports. The report is divided into four sections (six sections are listed in the table of contents, which lists sections one and three, most of section two, and one part of section five, as 'not issued', i.e. not printed in this edition of the report).

The first section to appear in the report is entitled 'Section II: Strategy and Tactics'; parts 1 and 3-6 of this section have been omitted, leaving part 2, which has the heading 'Possible Lines on which War Plans would be Framed'.

The next section, 'Section IV: Geography and Topography', provides an overview of the geography and topography of the Arabian Peninsula, including information about climate, transport facilities (including a table of landing grounds and seaplane anchorages), and communications.

The third section, 'Section V: Base Facilities and Maintenance of the Fleet' (from which part one has been omitted), provides a summary of principal commercial dockyards and repair bases, locations for fuel storage, supplies and storage of ammunition, fixed coastal defences, and aircraft.

The final section of the report, 'Section VI: Ports, Anchorages and Their Defences', proceeds through a number of Gulf ports in alphabetical order (i.e. Akaba, Bahrain, Doha, Hodeida and Ras Kethib, Jedda, Kamaran, Kuwait, Mukalla, and Muscat), describing each place's port facilities, anchorages and defences, as well as providing other information relating to matters such as government, commerce, water supply, transport and communications.

Enclosed with the maps and plans is a symbols chart, which lists some of the symbols used in the maps and plans.

Extent and format

1 file (63 folios)

It is grouped into

Map of the Arabian Peninsula

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 40

'MAP OF ARABIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 41

Map of the Arabian Peninsula

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 42

Map of the Arabian Peninsula

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 43

'ARABIA: GENERAL MAP SHOWING COMMUNICATIONS, LANDING GROUNDS ETC.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 44

'HODEIDA. View from S.E.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 45

'FUWWAH LANDING GROUND'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 46

'MUKALLA AND ENVIRONS'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 47

'MUKALLA WHARF'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 48

'MUKALLA. Dhow Anchorage.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 49 1

'MUKALLA. View from S.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 49 2

'AKABA (Transjordan)'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 50 1

'SHIHAIR'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 50 2

'SHARMA'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 51

'RAIDAH AND DISTRICT'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 52

'DOHA (AL BIDA) HARBOUR'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 53

'SALALAH.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 54 1

'SALALAH AND LANDING GROUND.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 54 2

'MURBAT BAY'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 55

'MURBAT. View from S.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 56 1

'KHOR RORI. View from N.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 56 2

'BAHRAIN ISLAND'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 57

'MANAMAH: PLAN OF PORT AND TOWN.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 58

'KHOR KALIYA: PLAN OF NAVAL BASE'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 59

'KHOR KAWI: PLAN OF NAVAL BASE'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 60

'KHOR KAWI – Looking South.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 61 1

'General view of buildings.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 61 2

'Pier and part of Beach.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 61 3

'KUWAIT'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 62

'GULF OF OM ĀN: MUSCAT & AL MATRAH'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 63

'JEDDA: PLAN OF PORT'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 64

Arrangement

The Arabia Intelligence Report contains a table of contents. The maps, plans and photographs, which are listed below the table of contents, appear after the main text of the report.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The file is formed of two parts. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover of the first part at 1 and terminates at the inside back cover of the second part at 65; 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.

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/L/PS/12/2160B

Former external reference(s)

Coll 6/88

History of this record

Date(s)

Feb 1932-7 Feb 1942 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

AnchorageLanding placesAerial photographsPlansMapsNaval intelligenceTopographyHarboursPhotographs

Places

Arabian Peninsula

People & organisations

Admiralty War Staff, Naval Intelligence Division

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