| Hyacinth incident | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 HMS Hyacinth | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom |
 Dubai | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Captain James Dick | Sheikh Butti bin Suhail Al Maktoum | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| HMS Hyacinth, 100 marines | Small arms | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 4 dead, 5 wounded | 37 dead | ||||||
  Dubai, Trucial States | |||||||
The Hyacinth incident was a 1910 British military action against suspected gun runners based in Dubai, then one of the Trucial States and now one of the United Arab Emirates, which resulted in street fighting between the town's citizens and British soldiers and culminated in the shelling of Dubai by HMS Hyacinth using high explosive munitions. The attack and subsequent bombardment resulted in the killing of 37 of Dubai's townspeople, as well as four dead and five wounded British servicemen.