| Battle off Mukah | |||||||
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| Part of Piracy in Asia and Pirate attacks in Borneo | |||||||
 A map of Sarawak showing the location of the naval battle off Mukah in 1862. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Raj of Sarawak | Moro Pirates | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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John Brooke | unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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1 steamer 1 gunboat | 6 prahus | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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~1 killed ~2 wounded 1 steamer damaged 1 gunboat damaged |
~100 killed or wounded 4 prahus sunk 1 prahu damaged | ||||||
The Battle off Mukah was a naval engagement fought in May 1862 between boats of the Sarawak and pirates.[2] After the kidnapping of Sarawakian citizens some time before, two small gunboats encountered the pirates off Mukah on the northern coast of Borneo. In an unusual action, the Rajah Muda, Captain John Brooke, then the heir apparent to be White Rajah of Sarawak, led his force in the defeat of six pirate ships and the rescue of captured civilians.[3]
- ^ The Sarawak Government Almanac. 1997.
- ^ L.V.Helms (1882), Pioneering in the Far East (Chapter VI., pp.212-3)
- ^ Harriette McDougall (1882). "Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak (Chapter XVI. Illanun Pirates)". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. & J. B. Young. London, New York: Project Canterbury, Anglican History. Retrieved 16 February 2016.