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From The Asiatic Annual Register for the Year 1804 Grammont! many thanks for that, and to mention AAR In 1807 I have found: 7 Oct "Other accounts say that the French government have presented the Imaum of Muscat With a ship, and a pecuniary indemnifaction , but of very inconsiderable value"

"The Countries And Tribes Of The Persian Gulf Volume 2" Colonel S.B.Miles RAHMANI - frigate mentioned 1775 SALIH -. frigate of 50 guns mentioned 1780 Imam’s frigate Salih , of 50 guns, laden with goods from a British Indian port to Busra. With a prize crew on board the Salih was sent to S...

Omani Ships 1810-1872 SOL LIVERPOOL (Bombay 1826) 1776bm 74 guns 590 men. . Presented to William IV 9.03.1836 Frigates CAROLINE (Bombay 1814) 575bm 36 guns ?? men. 1856 Muscat Navy. Still operated 1861. HAMMAYUN SHAH ()Damaun 1817) 604 tons 36 guns. 1850s lost in Gulf of Bengel SHAH ALLUM (Bombay 18...

RAHMANI was a corvette of 725bm tons and 24 guns built in Cochin in 1833. One of the best ships of the Sultan of Muscat

CURLEW was a brig built at Muscat c 1830. Pierced for 12 guns, mainly carried only 3-9 guns.

Not strictly on the topic, John! I think that we should expand the subject to complete era of sailing navy of Oman/Muscat/Zanzibar, ie ca 1650-1872, as there aare really no any comprehensive works on the subject. Omany Navy was from the begining very important naval power in Indian Ocean. In 1880s ...

Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' In 1799 Saiyid Sultan of Masqat, not without encouragement from the Persian governor of Shiraz, declared war against the ''Utub of Bahrain; this he did ostensibly on the ground of their refusing to recognise a tax...

Please note that the Oman navy was divided in 1856.
Most of the ships were transferred to Zanzibar.
Only three ships including frigate CAROLINE and RAHMANI were left.
Thye were also officially in 1861 transferred to Zanzibar.
RAHMANI was sold 1875 in Bombay for RS10,000.

Recently was published a book Oman: A Maritime History. (Studies on Ibadism and Oman) Abdulrahman Al Salimi & Eric Staples (eds), (Studies on Ibadism and Oman). Hildesheim, Zürich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2016. 254 pp., illustrations, notes, contributor biographies. ISBN 978-3-487-15390-...

The Ship of the Line LIVERPOOL was named after the sailing frigate LIVERPOOL (built 1814) which was sold y the Royal Navy to Imam on 16 April 1822, and on 6.08.1822 sailed from Bombay as Imaum 40-gun ship under British captain Thomas Skine for Muscat, returned from sea 10.08.1822, sailed again 17.09...

Renville & Grammont ! Many thanks for your research, but I have asked of 1650-1725 of Omani Navy not of XIX xcentury , which is relatively good know. In any case the Omani Navy was never really researched and doumented. Muscat was portuguese till 1650, when was taken by Imam of Oman. In 1669 the...