Sultanah is back to Oman

Sultanah

 

Sultanah is a top rate museum standard ship model  made by the Portuguese ship model maker Carlos Montalvão for the permanent collection of  The National Museum – Sultanate of Oman.

 

The hull, masting and fittings are made of Swiss steamed pear wood and African ebony.  

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No paint is used, just natural wood. The hull is coopered under the waterline. The metal fittings are made of brass, the canons were casted in an light metal alloy and the rigging is made of cotton. 

 

The real ship  was built in India in 1833 at the Bombay Dockyards by order of Sultan Sayyid Said. She took the first Omani ambassador, Ahmed bin Na’aman al Ka’abi, to the United States in 1840, leaving Muscat on 23 December 1839 on a commercial and diplomatic journey. She made a swift voyage of 87 days round the Cape of Good Hope loaded with several goods like dates, Persian carpets, coffee, ivory and gifts to the American president Van Buren. She left New York on the early August of 1840, back to Oman.

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 Sultanah  was the pride of Sultan Sayyid Said bin Sultan al Busaidi, Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar ’s fleet.  She is still very famous in the Sultanate  and considered by the Omanis as national symbol, an icon of the friendship between Oman and the United States.

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 Sultanah’s  dimensions  were approx. 37 metres for extreme length and  8,50 m for extreme breadth. Fully rigged she had around 54 meters long and 37 meters height. The model has 2,15 meters long and 1,70 meters high. 

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 The auxiliary boats are still under construction.

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SULTANAH IS WAITING FOR YOU AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM - SULTANATE OF OMAN