FO 371/157049
Inquiry into loss of UK merchant ship Dara in Persian Gulf, 1961
This file contains correspondence relating to:
Passenger list from the Dara [enclosed] (11)
Draft of Part I of R E Knowles and A C Manson's report on the explosion [enclosed]; Part II of the report [enclosed] (13, 18)
Possibility of Scotland Yard being brought into the investigations, including a letter to the Home Office (14)
Suggestion that the Treasury Solicitor should brief the police officers investigating the criminal aspects of the incident and a brief for the press (15)
Request from the Ministry of Transport to the Treasury for authority to bear the cost of the proposed p