47 In themorning of 13February 1935, Sharjahwas enjoying a calmmorning, after the passing of the north-eastern storm which had prevented many wooden sail boats from sailing in the Gulf. About noon time, a Tishshalah, a wooden boat, arrived from Great Tunb island. The owner of the boat was a Tunb local, and the boat had 29 men on board from the town of Khamir, on the Persian Coast. They had escaped the Iranian obligatory military service there. Their original boat, in which they had escaped, had arrived to Great Tunb island earlier on 9 February 1935. Fortunately for them, this was before the storm hit the area. The wind started as north-eastern, then became southern, then western before it turned north-eastern again. The Khamir people’s boat itself was shipwrecked in the storm that followed, and its crew was rescued by four wooden boats which had taken refuge in the island. The escapees stayed on Great Tunb island for 6 days without shelter, food or money to pay for the journey to Sharjah until the island’s locals transferred them free of charge on board their boats. One of those boats belonged to Muhammad bin Khalifah; the boat’s pilot was Dhiyab bin Ahmad. Both were from Sharjah. The pilot had gone to the island to bring stones for the building of a house in Dubai belonging to Mr Hussain Imad, the secretary of the Political Agent. At 10.30 AM on Tuesday, 5 March 1935, the HMS Fowey arrived in Sharjah, and the translator on board disembarked and headed for Sharjah Fort. He returned with Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, Ruler of
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