[Oman-L] Oman-L Digest, Vol 36, Issue 3

Sun Dec 16 04:10:08 UTC 2007

Re : Sultanah

There are some informations on the voyage [ gifts brought to NY and
specifications of the ship like number of cannon and load, in the book "Oman
in history"] .
CBO made a commemorative coin about 10 years ago so they might have images .
If you go to Min of Info, for sure they saved a copy of that book .
Maybe you need to do more searches in loco .

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>   1. Ahmed Bin Na'umann's Voyage to US in "Al Sultanah" in 1840
>      (Christopher Southcombe)
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> From: Christopher Southcombe <sou29 at emirates.net.ae>
> Subject: [Oman-L] Ahmed Bin Na'umann's Voyage to US in "Al Sultanah"
>        in 1840
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> Greetings,
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> I  would like to make a general request for information about Ahmed
> Bin Na'umann's voyage to New York in "Al Sultanah" in 1840.
>
> I am a marine artist-historian.  I have been commissioned to paint a
> large mural for His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Al Said.  This mural will
> be an atlas of the world and is to depict the major voyages of
> historical importance and interest in Oman's maritime past, including
> detailed images of the ships.   One voyage in particular is of
> special importance and interest. In 1840 the then ruler of Oman,
> Sultan Sa'id bin Sultan Al Bu-Sa'id, sent his envoy, His Excellency
> Ahmed bin Na'uman, on a state visit to New York to meet President Van
> Buren.   This was the first state visit of any ambassador from Oman
> to the United States.    The voyage was made in the sailing ship "Al
> Sultanah" and was an event of particular importance in Omani maritime
> history.
>
> I have discovered very little information here in Oman about this
> voyage and the ship, except that there is now a model of the ship,
> "Al Sultanah", on display in the new Museum of the Land of
> Frankincence in Salalah.  Although of European design she was built
> in the Mazagon Dockyard in Bombay in 1833.   She arrived in New York
> in 1840, having taken only 87 days on passage from Zanzibar -
> particularly fast passage.
>
> The model shows her square-rigged on the main and foremasts only,
> with only a gaff rigged "spanker" on the mizzen and no square-rig
> yards.   It is thought that "Al Sultanah" was later converted to a
> barque, as the model shows, with the yards stripped from the mizzen,
> but she was originally built as a 3-masted sailing ship and I'm
> fairly sure that she was still square-rigged on the mizzen when she
> arrived in New York.   That would appear to be so from Edward
> Mooney's portrait of Ahmed Bin Na'umann, painted during that visit,
> which appears on p.182 in the book "Oman - a Searing Nation".   He
> has painted "Al Sultanah" in the background in his portrait of Ahmed
> Bin Na'uman, and although there is little discernible detail there
> are clearly three square-rig yards on the mizzen.
>
> I must depict the ship as she was during her voyage to the United
> States in 1840.   I have discovered that the American diplomat
> Hermann Frederik Eilts, who served many years in the Middle East,
> wrote a book, published in 1962, about this voyage.  The book and
> subsequent reprints are out of print and I haven't been able to
> locate a copy.   Mr Eilts died last year, so I cannot contact him.
>
> The American pictorial-historian E.Harper Johnson wrote and
> illustrated a book entitled "Oman A Pictorial Resuscitation" which
> was published by the Ministry of Information in 1997.  Unfortunately
> I believe that Harper Johnson is also no longer with us.
>
> I would like to ask if any "OMAN-L" subscribers might have any
> information about this voyage, the ship, or any reference sources, or
> have old copies of either of these books they are prepared to
> sell.   I believe that somewhere there is a record of a photograph of
> the ship having been published in a New York newspaper, but I cannot
> track it down.  Photography was certainly in its infancy in those
> days, barely out its 'teens', but it is quite likely that a
> photograph of such a visit would exist.   Any help please?
>
> Christopher Southcombe
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