DUBAI - AN OVERVIEW

The captain gave the order to abandon ship but two lifeboats capsized plus a 2nd explosion happened. A flotilla of small boats from Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain picked up survivors, but 238 on the 819 persons on board were shed while in the catastrophe.[47]The "great storm" of 1908 struck the pearling boats of Dubai plus the coastal emir