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| Picture No | 10221780 |
| Date | 9 May 1874 |
| Description | Bombardment of Fort Masnaah, Gulf of Oman, 1874. |
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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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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 9 May 1874. p. 446. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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