[5] When Karim Khan Zand became ruler of Iran, he asked Imamate of Oman to return Persian Afsharid vessel Rahmani.

[6] William Taylor Money reported in 1811 that one of the ships built by Persians in 1738, was in the Ottoman hands and served as "the Turkish flagship at Bussorah... and when about 8 years ago she was brought into dock in Bombay for repair, her timbers were ascertained to be perfectly sound".

[17] Persians seized East Indiaman Northumberland in May 1736 in Bushehr, forcing the captain of the ship to sell it at "a great price" and turned it into a warship.

[18] The ship was in a bad shape at the time and East India Company (EIC) "took precautionary steps in order to satisfy a potential Persian claim".

[16] In October of the same year, the fleet was reinforced by purchase of two English 20-gun frigates for 8,000 tomans, one of which named Cowan[19] However, EIC records show only one ship sold.

[22] As of 1737, a Dutch source reported inventory of Afsharid navy as the following: A 1,100 tonnes Bombay-based vessel named Shawallum was purchased from its owning consortium (John Lambton, Parsi merchants Bhomanji Rustamji and Manoji Nowroji, as well as Bombay-based Shivan Set Dharam Set) and was renamed to Rahimi, serving as the new flagship of the fleet.

[26] Both Mary and Pembroke had technical problems at the time sold, the latter lacked full rigging while the former suffered from leaks in her hull and needed daily pumping.

Shortly after Elizabeth of Russia inherited the throne in December 1771, Persia asked for a loan of ten Russian Navy ships for deployment in Nader's Dagestan campaign.

[33] In 1743, Nader Shah appointed English merchant John Elton as the superintendent of naval shipbuilding in northern Iran, and bestowed him the title Jamal Beig.