James Edward Alexander's notes dealing with the navy of the Imaum of Muscat in 1825-1826

In October 1825 arrived Alexander at Rangoon, Burma. He became a volunteer for a patrol river upwards from Rangoon to Prome. The boats with a detachment soldiers departed from the Kings' wharf.

P. 25: "We passed a thirty-six gun frigate on the stocks, building for the Imaum of Muscat, and named the Bundoolah, after the celebrated generalissimo of the Burmese: she was nearly ready for launching".

Alexander arrived in the morning of 20 April 1826 at Bombay where he visited the dock yard.

p. 70: "In the evening I visited the dock-yards, the master-builders in which, as well as the shipwrights, are all Persees, the finest and most enterprizing race in India. A large eighty-gun ship was on the stocks building for the Imaum of Muscat, who is possessed at present with the ship-building mania. Our Government allow him to build as many vessels as he pleases, as it would be an easy matter

p. 71: to take them from him in the event of a war. The docks do great credit to the engineer who constructed them. The timber used in them comes from the Malabar coast."

Source

James Edward Alexander. Travels from India to England; comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia minor, European Turkey. &c. in the years 1825-1826. London, 1827. Digitized by Google.