Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, 1874

Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, by two vessels of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Rifleman and H.M.S. Philomel and the Hugh Rose, a vessel from the Bombay Marine service. This engagement took place on 27 March 1874. The fort belonged to Syud Tourkie, the Sultan of Muscat, but had been seized by a rebel chief Ibrahim bin Kais whose followers had plundered the goods of some British subjects at Masnaah

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