‘File 12/13 Shipping. Agents for foreign steamship companies’

Content

The file comprises correspondence relating to foreign shipping companies operating at Bahrain, and agents representing foreign shipping companies operating at Bahrain. Correspondents in the file include: 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. at Bahrain (chiefly Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo [Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kānū]; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); the Director of Customs at Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier).

The file includes:

• correspondence dated 1936 relating to an application made by Hajy Muhammad Tayeb Khunji to act as a shipping agent for the Japanese Mitsui Bussan Kaisha company’s steamship line at Bahrain, rejected in favour of an application made by Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo (ff 3-6);
• correspondence dated 1936 relating to a request by the Norwegian Gunnar M Nielsen Shipping Company, for the names of shipbrokers, stevedores, pilots and other port-related operatives at Bahrain (ff 7-9);
• correspondence dated 1942 relating to Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo’s appointment as shipping agent for the Netherlands Shipping Committee (time chartered by the British Ministry of War Transport), including the Political Agent’s and Bahrain Government Adviser’s questioning of Kanoo’s experience for the role (ff 10-16);
• a copy of a Bahrain Government notice, dated 24 October 1932, stating that no one is permitted to become an agent for shipping at Bahrain, without first obtaining the permission of the Bahrain Government (f 15);
• a letter from Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo to the Director of Customs at Bahrain, dated 23 September 1950, informing that he has been appointed agent for vessels owned by the Alexandria Navigation Company (f 17).

Extent and format

1 file (19 folios)

Arrangement

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 18-20) mirror the chronological arrangement.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 21; 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/R/15/2/1383

Former external reference(s)

English Office: File 12/13

History of this record

Date(s)

24 Oct 1932-23 Sep 1950 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Shipping agents

People & organisations

Adviser to the Government of BahrainDirector of Customs and Port OfficerYusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo

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