Nakhoda Hamad bin Salem bin Abdullah Ba Alawi

Nakhoda Hamad bin Salem bin Abdullah Ba Alawi: born in the Omani city of Sur in 1925 and died on 16/11/2000. He did not own a ship of his own but was a nakhoda working for shipowners, having served with each of:

1 = the ship of the sons of Abboud (a sambuk).

2 = Al Hashimi, a sambuk owned by Alawi bin Saleh Al Shihab.

3 = the ship of the Al Hairi family, the sons of Hamad bin Najim Al Ghailani, of the ghanja type.

4 = he then worked as a nakhoda on the ships of the people of the north — the Arabs of Iran on the Arab Gulf coast — for eight years, among them Abdullah bin Hassan.

Reference: Hammoud bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Ghailani — Maritime History and Shipbuilding in the Omani City of Sur — Arabic Press — 2006