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CHAPTER I.

Introductory.

The Indian Navy and the Persian Gulf.
The first of the ships that opened British commercial intercourse with the
Persian Gulf started from the Surat factory of the East India Company. Here
ivas established a small marine, that afterwards developed into the Bombay
Marine, called since 1830 the Indian Navy% which was abolished in 1862. To
this Indian Navy we are mainly indebted for the breakdown of the Portuguese
power on the Persian Gulf, the protection of the British commerce against the
rivalry of the Dutch and the French, the suppression of piracies and the establish­
ment of maritime peace, and security of navigation by its surveys, in the Gulf.
The record of its origin and rise, its struggles and victories is given in the
exhaustive and admirable history of the Indian Navy by C. R. Low. We must
be content here with only a synopsis of the principal events in the Gulf in which
the Indian Navy figured and the surveys done by its officers in the shape of
two statements.

PERIOD I.
The early voyages and the Bombay Marine, X616-1831.

Low's History
Official publi­
Year. Events. of the Indian
cation.
Navy, volume I.
Selection from
State papers
16001800 with
Summary.
Summary.
1616 The East India Company’s ship James despatched to Jask Pages iv and v
with Kdw trd Cor.ouk and factors on a mission to Peisia by
the Surat factors.
1618 A trading vessel despatched fiom Surat to bring Persian silks Page xiv Page 29
1630 Fight between the East India Company’s ships and Portuguese Page xvi Page 31
frigates off Jask, in which the English win ultimately.
163a Capture of Ormuz by the English in co-operation with the Per­ Page ivli Page 38
sians. The East India Company’s fleet plays an important
part.
1628 Captain Swanlcy pioceeds to the Gulf with a squadron of 5 (?j) Page xx Page 47
ships carrying the Mughal Ambassador to Persia, and also the
English Ambassador Sir D. Cotton. Instructions to him to
capture Portuguese ships.
1640 A factory opened at Basrah... ... — ... Page xxi
1653 Defeat of the East India Company's fleet off Jask by the Dutch... Page xxiii ...
[Soon afterwards peace concluded with the Dutch.]
tCb4 Sir Charles Grantham. Vice-Admiral, sails in his flagship Tht Page xxviii ... Page 7a
Chatles // horn Bombay to Gombroon: but finding the Dutch
fleet in gical lorcc there returns.
*759 The French destroy an English sloop at Gombroon, and capture Summary, page Page 153
the East India Company’s factory. xlii and Select
tions, No. C.
1765-66 ... Capture o? the f.al!y and Fort Wiltiamby the Kaab.—Despatch Summary,
of a fleet against the Kaab.—The expedition a failure. xivii— USB.
Selections, No.
CL I et icq.