2-979-559 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Persian Expedition - Island of Kishni, Harbour of Bunder [Bandar] Abbas, Fleet at Anchor, Persian Coast, 1857. Sketch '...by an officer, in the Bushire Roads, showing part of what occurred during the attack and capture of Bushire... taken while the Semiramis was entering the harbour of Bunder Abbas. The H.E.I.C. [Honourable East India Company] steam-frigates Feroze and Ajdha are the vessels with steam up. There were about thirty ships, including transports, lying at anchor in this harbour before they started for their destination - Bushire [Bushehr]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.