In 1550, the Ottoman governor of Basra captured Qatif after having bribed part of the garrison of its fort, and upon arriving with a fleet, the fort surrendered while its Hormuzi governor retreated to Hormuz, which was controlled by the Portuguese.

When the Portuguese governor of India Afonso de Noronha received news at Goa that the Ottomans had captured Qatif and were encroaching on the Persian Gulf, he dispatched Dom António de Noronha to the Persian Gulf with 1,200 men and a fleet of 7 galleons and 12 oarships, tasked with expelling the Turks.

[4] From Hormuz Dom António sent Manuel de Vasconcelos ahead with the oarships to scout Qatif and sever its communications with Ottoman Basra.

[5] Before long the Portuguese had dug trenches, set artillery batteries and began battering the forts walls.

Seeing no way to resist, at the end of eight days the garrison fled under the darkness of the night, the last being detected by the Portuguese and killed.