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	HMS Ocean (1805)
		Meanwhile Russia and France had signed the Treaty of Tilsit[?] which Collingwood understood to mean that the Russian ships would come under French control so he escorted Seniavin from Corfu to the Straits of Gibraltar, being prepared to destroy them rather than let them fall into enemy hands.
		She was later with the Mediterranean squadron until paid off on May 15, 1830.
		After that, she served variously as harbour duty flagship and guardship at Sheerness[?] until 1848 when she became Flagship, Nore.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Ocean_(1805).html (495 words)

	Royal Naval History - HMS Ambuscade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was a flightdeck full of ammunition to replenish the magazines at Gibraltar, emptied by the first wave of the Task Force in their hurried departure.
		We arrived at Gibraltar on Easter Monday 11 April for 3 weeks Guardship duties, to be followed by work up and a hectic programme around UK, saturated by the dearth of ships left by the operation in the South Atlantic.
		Guardship we were, but predictably we soon got orders to go further south to Ascension Island, working up with Portland staff on the way and quickly adopting warlike habits.
	www.royal-navy.org /admin/content/view/29/103 (333 words)

	NELEUS - Artículo en línea de la información acerca de NELEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In order that the lad might have more practice than could be obtained on a harbour ship, his uncle sent him to the West Indies in a merchant vessel, and on his return gave him constant employment in boat work on the river.
		Gibraltar on the 3oth of April, Nelson was detached on the 2nd of May into the Mediterranean, with three line-ofbattle ships and five frigates, to discover the aim of the Toulon armament.
		In the meantime the frigates attached to his command had returned to Gibraltar, in the erroneous belief that the liners would be taken there to make good the damage suffered in the gale.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /es/NAN_NEW/NELEUS.html (8278 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, G. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From Gibraltar she sailed for Madeira and during the 2nd and 3rd of August gave chase to a brig, suspected of being a pirate.
		The crew of GIBRALTAR, expressing a desire to sail to the westward, took possession of the ship and ran her under the sterns of the others, cheering them in the hope that the other crews would join them.
		GIBRALTAR was with Lord GAMBIER in the attack on the French fleet in the Basque roads during April 1809.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /G.HTM (19694 words)

	Rothesay Class Anti Submarine Frigates (Type 12 Modified)
		They also served as guardships at Gibraltar, the West Indies, the Far East and other locations ‘flying the flag’ and providing a credible deterrent.
		In October 1967 Brighton was the first warship to become Gibraltar Guardship.
		In 1982 her flight deck was restored for helicopter operations once again, in anticipation of her new role as Gibraltar gaurdship.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/Frigates/rothesay.htm (2766 words)

	Panorama, Gibraltar's Online Daily, Gibraltar news
		Gibraltar has its own Government, of which I am the Chief Minister, and to the extent that we do not enjoy a full measure of self Government, the Government powers that are not exercised in Gibraltar by the Gibraltar Government are exercised by the Government of our Administrating Power, the United Kingdom.
		Yet it is clear that this policy towards Gibraltar is a flagrant breach of Resolution 2625 (XXV), which says all Peoples have the right to freely determine their political status without external interference and that every state has the duty to respect this right in accordance with the Charter.
		The population of Barbary macaques 'Macaca sylvanus' in Gibraltar is thriving.
	www.panorama.gi /archive/030602/updates.htm (15038 words)

	HMS Ajax (F114) at AllExperts
		In 1970, Ajax became the Gibraltar guardship, a required deployment at that time due to the tense fears of invasion by General Franco.
		In 1977, Ajax underwent a refit at Devonport Dockyard.
		She underwent further deployments that culminated in the highlight of her final year in 1985, when she escorted the HMY Britannia, which had a number of the Royal Family on a tour of Italy.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_ajax_(f114).htm (435 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Remembering Hood - Excerpt from "Flagship Hood, ...
		We were supposed to escort her to Gibraltar, but no one seemed to have the slightest idea of what action to take if her captain refused.
		There were no pursuers as we swept westerly towards Gibraltar, and the chance was taken to make a fifteen-inch full charge practice shoot, which revealed that the rifling of two guns was defective.
		The Hood was anti-aircraft guardship for the fleet, and our gunners complained that they were required to man the four-inch armament for two hours at dusk and for another two at dawn.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/remember/tedflagship.htm (22628 words)

	Artemis
		After reaching Ponta Delgada, Azores, the next day, Artemis served as guardship for the harbor on 14 December and conducted target practice beyond the three-mile limit on the 17th and 18th before leaving the Azores on the final leg of the voyage to Leixoes, with SC-65 astern once more.
		Artemis continued to escort convoys between Gibraltar and North Africa into mid-March: convoys BG-12 (20 to 24 February), GB-16 (2 to 6 March), and BG-17 (12 to 17 March) before Lt. Comdr.
		Artemis then operated between Gibraltar, Algiers, and Oran thorugh mid-May, visiting Oran for the second time during that period, embarking five survivors of the torpedoed British merchantman SS Mavisbrook for passage to Gibraltar.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a12/artemis-i.htm (2897 words)

	South African Navy - Unlikely Ambassadors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On their way to South Africa, they visited Gibraltar, Las Palmas, Sierra Leone, Lagos, Luanda and Walvis Bay; however, as they were not yet official South African warships, this particular sea voyage is not regarded as a South African flag-showing cruise.
		From 13 January 1973, SAS Tafelberg once again served as guardship for the Cape-to-Rio yacht race, but once again, the ship could not visit Rio de Janeiro; rather, it was permitted to call on Buenos Aires (and then returned to Simon's Town on 14 March).
		It is insightful that a small Navy such as the SAN was able simultaneously to deploy two (albeit small) task forces, comprising various types of ships, in two different parts of the world to participate in exercises and to show the South African flag.
	www.navy.mil.za /about_us/history/ambassadors.htm (8852 words)

	USS Sellstrom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On 13 December, the escort vessel departed Charleston and proceeded to Norfolk, arriving on the 15th.
		On 31 January, Task Force 63 stood into the Straits of Gibraltar, turned over the escort of their convoy to British control, and set course to Casablanca, French Morocco.
		She remained in the harbor, doing some patrolling, until 4 February, when she got underway for Gibraltar to pick up another convoy en route to Chesapeake Bay.
	www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://dates/Navy/DE/sellstrom.html (934 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Montrose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Powered by gas turbine and diesel-electric engines, the ship is designed to create as little disturbance as possible - her vertical surfaces are sloped at seven degrees to minimise radar reflection, and corners are rounded, while a 'hull bubble' principle reduces the noise of her propulsion system.
		Her first operational deployment was to the cooler seas of the South Atlantic as Falklands Guardship in mid-1996, which saw the first sea-going deployment of a Mk 8 Lynx helicopter.
		In 1998 she was back to the Falklands, and undertook exercises off the United States, while in 1999 she was part of the Normandy Landings commemorations, sailing under the new Pegasus Bridge.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/montrose.asp (435 words)

	pmchron0.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was one of four, the others being the Defiant, Warspite, and Rupert, constructed to the same design during the reign of William III (1688-1702).
		A Council of War was held on her decks off Toulon in 1707; and it may be that the painting commemorates that occasion, as the Union flag indicates the presence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, in this case Sir Clowdisley Shovell.
		Between 1722 and 1725 Captain Balchen was in command of the Ipswich guardship at Spithead and in October 1727 went in the Monmouth as part of a reinforcement for Sir Charles Wager's support of Gibraltar, then besieged by Spain.
	www.cichw.net /pmchron0.html (1511 words)

	Chapter-11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		JULY 9th: Arrival to Gibraltar of a supply convoy including CV HMS Furious carrying 60 hurricanes fighters (of which 30 in crates).
		Late in the night, the Gibraltar Force "H", with HMS Renown, MN Dunkerque and Strasbourg, 3 cruisers and 8 destroyers, and Ark-Royal for air cover.
		Emile-Bertin enters Gibraltar early in the morning, having maintained nearly 33kts during all her way from Malta.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-11.htm (9168 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003g Surface vessels (Post 1945) > Frigates (Steam powered) > British ...
		The following year, Gurkha became the Gibraltar Guardship and in March 1984, Gurkha was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Indonesia.
		In 1969, Nubian was guardship for the trans-Atlantic air race, which was designed to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alcock and Brown's non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the UK.
		Later that year, Tartar, while deployed to the West Indies as guardship, began a search for the wreckage of a Cubana DC8-40 passenger plane, which was lost off Barbados after a bomb onboard had exploded.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/photolibrary/index.php?cat=873 (2213 words)

	NELSON'S HARDY AND HIS WIFE: The Education of a Sailor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He served with Roberts, transferring with him to the Seaford (a name to be intimately connected with his family), until April, '83, when he remained on shore for a time and returned to school, to Milton Abbas Grammar School, according to local legend.
		Although in January, '84, his name reappears as captain's servant on the Carnatic guardship, there is reason to believe that his shore education was not interrupted.
		Before the year ended Commodore Nelson hoisted his broad pendant aboard the Minerve at Gibraltar, and was able to study at close quarters the character and conduct of that promising young officer, Lieut.
	www.kategallison.com /hardy/I.HTM (3424 words)

	The Falklands Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They were to penetrate the colony's defences - preferably by swimming the one mile from the La Lineá docks to the Gibraltar dockyard - and attack the oil storage depot, the Admiralty magazine, shipping, including the Gibraltar guardship, the frigate HMS Ariadne, which was known to be regularly bcrthed in the dock.
		Messages were flashed from London both to the governor of Gibraltar, General William Jackson, and to the governors and commanders-in-chief of.
		Precautions had already been taken in Gibraltar, largely because the colonial authorities had been warned - ironically, in the circumstances - of a possible Spanish attack aimed at recovering the peninsula during the confusion of the Falklands operations.
	www.gibnet.com /texts/falkwar.htm (922 words)

	Falklands-Malvinas :: View topic - The New Gibraltar Constitution
		I have just returned from a few days in Madrid where I was able to enjoy, not for the first time, (or the last I hope) the wonders of that city and its environs built so beautifully on the blood, sweat, tears and very lives of the people of its once eternal empire.
		To the detriment of not only Gibraltar's disabled but also any other country's disabled citizen who happen to be using Gibraltar's airport.
		Gibraltar as their Chief Minister recently stated, “does not belong to them” Of course he is referring the UK and he is absolutely correct in saying so.
	www.falklands-malvinas.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=713 (5415 words)

	Sir John Balchen
		Between the years 1722 and 1725 he commanded the Ipswich guardship at Spithead, and in February 1725-6 was again appointed to the Monmouth, and again went for the then yearly cruise up the Baltic, in 1726 with Sir Charles Wager, and in 1727 with Sir John Norris.
		Rochambeau was unable to oppose a force such as Balchen commanded; he drew back to Cadiz, whilst Balchen convoyed the store-ships to Gibraltar, saw them safely through the straits, and started on the return voyage.
		In the chops of the Channel his fleet was caught in a violent storm, on 3 Oct.; the ships were dispersed, but, more or less damaged, some dismasted, some leaking badly, all got into Plymouth or Spithead, with the exception of the Victory.
	bernt6.tripod.com /sirjohn.htm (1502 words)

	These Are The Voyages...
		After Lieutenant Shaw, due to ill health, was relieved by Lieutenant Andrew Sterett, Enterprise sailed to the Mediterranean, raising Gibraltar on 26 June 1801, where she was to join other U.S. warships in writing a bright and enduring page in American naval history.
		During that period she fought (15 August 1806) a brief engagement off Gibraltar with a group of Spanish gunboats who attacked her but were driven off.
		The brig reached Wilmington, North Carolina, on 9 March 1814, then passed the remainder of the war as a guardship off Charleston, South Carolina.
	ussenterprise.blogspot.com (1597 words)

	Enterprise
		Enterprise next sailed to the Mediterranean, raising Gibraltar on 26 June 1801, where she was to join other U.S. warships in writing a bright and enduring page in American naval history.
		Enterprise was compelled to jettison most of her guns in order to outsail her superior antagonist.
		The brig reached Wilmington, N.C., on 9 March 1814, then passed the remainder of the war as a guardship off Charleston, S.C. Enterprise served one more short tour in the Mediterranean (July-November 1815), then cruised the northeastern seaboard until November 1817.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/e4/enterprise-iii.htm (682 words)

	Solebay\ship history
		Before the work-up was complete the war with Japan ended and she was reassigned to the Home Fleet, as Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla.
		On the way back to the UK she stopped for a “rabbit” run at Gibraltar (Alan Deevy, a telegraphist, remembers everyone buying bananas because these had not been seen in the UK for five years).
		After this came a spell as German Waters Guardship, visiting Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Kiel, Flensburg and Hamburg, followed by “showing the flag” around the coast.
	www.tosd.demon.co.uk /history.htm (1035 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Navy relies on speed to counter terrorists
		Scimitar and its sister craft Sabre form part of the newly revived and reinforced Gibraltar Patrol Boat Squadron, a key element of the Navy's response to the terrorist threat in the region.
		There is also a specialist diving unit to check that the harbour is clear of mines.
		Until last year, the Armed Forces had been winding down their post-Cold War presence, removing the Gibraltar guardship, reducing the RAF establishment and withdrawing the British infantry battalion.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/03/wgib103.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/03/ixworld.html (322 words)

	Tribal Class General Purpose Frigates (Type 81)
		They also served as guardship at Gibraltar, the West Indies, the Far East and other locations ‘flying the flag’ and providing a credible deterrent.
		In Spring 1983 she underwent a further refit at Portsmouth before becoming Gibraltar Guardship.
		In 1969 Nubian became Guardship for the Transatlantic Air Race held for the 50th Anniversary of the first Atlantic flight by Alcock and Brown.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/Frigates/tribal.htm (1597 words)

	Colville
		In 1727 he served at Gibraltar during the siege of that fortress, and was there in 1735, when he was promoted to a company in the same regiment.
		He subsequently got the command of the Northumberland, a guardship at Plymouth, on board of which he went to America under Admiral Boscawen in 1755.
		In 1747 he was at the battle of Lafeldt, and in 1751 accompanied his regiment to Gibraltar.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/nation/colville.htm (6668 words)

	USS Sellstrom
		On 13 January 1944 she departed Norfolk as a unit of Task Force 63 bound for Gibraltar.
		Her operations consisted of routine patrols and serving as a guardship vessel for flights over the northern Japanese island chain.
		She also served as a station vessel for the record non-stop flight of three B-29s from Tokyo to Washington, DC.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/DE255_Sellstrom.html (1105 words)

	Statement on the Defence Estimates 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MT 1.16: The Security of Gibraltar - The Government is responsible for the defence and internal security of Gibraltar.
		MT 1.22: Reinforcement of the Cyprus SBAs, Gibraltar, Ascension Island, the Falklands and South Georgia, Diego Garcia, and Hong Kong - The Government is committed to the stability, security and defence of the Dependent Territories, including, if necessary, the restoration and maintenance of law and order.
		None of the resident forces for Military Tasks 1.15 to 1.20 are capable of meeting all possible contingencies and could therefore require reinforcement.
	www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/mod/defence/anxa.htm (3304 words)

	Maitland Extracts
		During the cruise she captured 10 vessels, one was destroyed at Port Maurice and she assisted at the capture of 3 others.
		From September 1804 she spent an unproductive 3 months cruising in the Adriatic and from December 1804 to April 1805 she was employed protecting the Levant trade and escorted a large convoy from the eastern Mediterranean to Gibraltar.
		BICKERTON, when mutineers took possession of GIBRALTAR and ran her under the sterns of the other vessels, cheering them, in the hope that the crews would join.
	www.antonymaitland.com /maitextr.htm (16116 words)

	Statement on the Defence Estimates 1996
		During three amphibious exercises in 1995, the Royal Navy made good progress with the development of a specialist capability in NATO by which a hydrographic survey can be completed in four to six hours to provide safe access to hitherto uncharted beaches for heavy-lift amphibious shipping.
		In July 1995, the West Indies Guardship, HMS Southampton, and her support ship, RFA Oakleaf, were diverted from their programme in response to a request from the Governor of Montserrat, a British Dependent Territory, to provide assistance following volcanic activity on the island.
		A small number of personnel were also sent from the British Military Advisory Training Team based in Barbados to help the Governor prepare for a possible evacuation and establish an emergency evacuation centre on the north of the island.
	www.fas.org /news/uk/mod96/ch2a.htm (2462 words)

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