by John Marshall

“ In 1820, the Topaze was sent to the Persian Gulph, for the purpose of obtaining redress for injuries which the British interests had suffered from the officers of the Imaun of Senna. She arrived off Mocha accompanied by several of the Hon. East India Company’s cruisers, and a bomb vessel, on the 3d Dec, and Captain Lumley, finding that the agent on the part of the British Government had previously used every means in his power without effect, immediately resolved on bombarding the place. ”

“ Lieutenants William Moriarty and Charles Mayson Moncreiffe Wright, Messrs, Robert Ward and William Stephens (Admiralty midshipmen) , and sixteen sailors and marines wounded. The Hon. Company’s cruisers had four killed, eight wounded, and three burnt by the explosion of the mines. ”