[3] Captain Álvaro da Silveira was more successful: Taking the route towards Al-Qatif, he was able to approach Bahrain from the west rather than east, and thus trick the Turks into believing his fleet were friendly reinforcements sent from Basra.

Taking advantage of morning haze, Álvaro da Silveira was able to surprise and capture the Ottoman fleet, thus trapping the Turks on the island.

Dom António de Noronha even commissioned the chief-architect Inofre de Carvalho, by chance then conducting renovations in the fortress of Hormuz, to build a very large war-wagon, armed with artillery pieces: [...] a wooden machine on high wheels, on top of which some men would fight and put there some pieces of artillery, for Dom António de Noronha determined to take this machine forwards, so the Turks would break against it the fury of their first volley of arquebusery[5]Eventually, an outbreak of plague befell the Turks and Portuguese, causing great losses on both sides, and the Turks offered terms.

[6] Dom Ántónio de Noronha permitted that the Turks be ferried back to Al-Qatif on November 6, in exchange for relinquishing their weapons and paying an indemnity of 12,000 cruzados or one million akçes, which they agreed.

[7] The Ottomans would only make another attempt against the Portuguese 21 years later, when admiral Mir Ali Beg commanded a small fleet to the east-African coast in 1580.