Venice broke diplomatic relations with Portugal and started to look at ways to counter its intervention in the Indian Ocean, sending an ambassador to the Egyptian court.

[7] Since the Mamluks only had little in terms of naval power, timber had to be provided from the Black Sea in order to build the ships, about half of which was intercepted by the Hospitallers of St. John in Rhodes, so that only a fraction of the planned fleet could be assembled at Suez.

[5] The timber was then brought overland on camel back, and assembled at Suez under the supervision of Venetian shipwrights.

The Mamluks sailed into Chaul and fought for two days inconclusively with the Portuguese, unable to board their ships.

Amir Hussain returned to the port of Diu, but from that point abandoned any further initiative on the Indian coast, his ships becoming derelict and his crews dispersing.