What Portuguese warships were in Mormugao Harbor during the Calcutta Light Horse raid?
Short answerA destroyer or patrol boat is tentatively recalled, but no ship is identified and any deliberate accommodation remains a suggestion.
NotesThe Portuguese naval presence at Mormugao is tentatively recalled as a destroyer or patrol boat, with no exact vessel identified. Portuguese willingness to stay out of Britain's way is offered as an explanation for the limited interference with the raid. The use of old alliance provisions to permit British access to the Azores supplies a comparison for diplomatic accommodation. The imagined exchange about a patrol crew attending a party ashore is a joke illustrating that suggestion, not evidence of an agreed arrangement at Mormugao. Collusion is explicitly left unclaimed.