[Oman-L] Ahmed Bin Na'umann's Voyage to US in "Al Sultanah" in 1840

[Joachim Duester]

Dear all,
Dr. Abdulla al-Harrasi sent the following, highly informative posting to the list regarding the ship's name. I have to apologize to him that for some technical deficiencies of this list his original posting got rejected.
Best regards
Joachim Duester


From: "Abdulla Al-Harrasi" 
To: "News and questions about Oman (Sultanate of Oman)" <oman-l at oman.org>


Dear all,

Forgive me for this intrusion, but I would like to clarify an important issue related to the ship's name. There is a common mistake that the name of the Omani ship that visited New York in 1840 is  "Sultanah". This seems to be wrong. I have done a good research on this topic and have found out that the ship's correct name is السلطاني in Arabic or "Sultani" or "Sultanee" in English.

Here are some original sources which talked about that visit to New York; some of them are published in 1840:

In New York

1. Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register
edited by Samuel Hazard
Contributor Samuel Hazard
Published by s.n., 1840

You can access it HERE
http://books.google.com/books?id=42YTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA317&dq=Sultani+Muscat+ship&ei=iOk0Sa2aGZWszASaoei3DQ

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
edited by Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William B. Dana, Isaac Smith Homans
Published by F. Hunt, 1840

You can access it HERE
http://books.google.com/books?id=HV5JAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=Sultanee+New+York+Imaum&as_brr=3&ei=Z-o0SY6PI4LmygTSx4jbCw


Debate in the Senate

Even in the senate debate in Monday, May 25, 1840, and in Secretary of State John Forsyth's letter to the senate, the ship is referred to as Sultanee.

This is documented in the following source:

Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and Seatons' Annals of Congress, from Their Register of Debates, and from the Official Reported Debates by John C. Rives
By United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton
Published by D. Appleton, 1860

You can access HERE
http://books.google.com/books?id=YMU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA141&dq=Sultanee+New+York+Imaum&as_brr=3&ei=Z-o0SY6PI4LmygTSx4jbCw#PPA140,M1


Back Home

And you can even read "Arrival out of the Sultanee" from New York on December 7, 1840 in the following book:

The African Repository
By American Colonization Society
Published by American colonization society., 1841
http://books.google.com/books?id=01qCe4EOu7AC&pg=PA156&vq=Sultanee&dq=Sultanee&as_brr=3&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0#PPA156,M1

Hope this clarification is of benefit,

Dr. Abdulla Al-Harrasi
Muscat