In earlier note on this weblog I referred to a description made by James Edward Alexander’s while visiting the dock yard at Bombay. Here he saw the building of a 80-gun ship for the Imaum, later to be launched that year. She was in advance called Imaum, presented as a gift to the British crown and renamed Liverpool. I found a reference in The Asiatic Journal dealing with her predecessor. “Imam of Muscat’s Marine. We are informed that the Imam has sent the Liverpool to Bombay for the purpose of being broken up, as she is rapidly decaying. His Highness, we believe, intend« requesting permission from Government to construct another vessel, in the Bombay Dock-yard, nearly after the same model, though somewhat larger. He appears very desirous of keeping up his marine force, which has become rather formidable; at least it is so in the estimation of the native tribes on the Arabian coast; and this is an object which he has been always desirous of attaining, as it gives a security to his power in the possessions held by him on the coast of Africa, from whence about one-fourth of his revenue is derived,- [Bom. Cour. Dec. 15.]”.
Source
The Asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its dependencies, volume 19, p. 849. London, 1825.
Source
The Asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its dependencies, volume 19, p. 849. London, 1825.
