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A
Admiralty Labour Section 74, 75
Adventure, HMS 23, 24
Aetna (bomb), HMS 83
Agamemnon (64), HMS (1781) 83
agents victualler and victualling agents
instructions for 56
responsibilities of 56–7
salary of 60
victuallers to the fleet 63
Victualling Board, see Victualling Board
see also Bolton, Thomas; Brown, Nicholas; Cutforth, James; Ford, Richard; Heatley, David; St Michel, Balthazar; Vaughan, ?; Wilkie, Patrick; Wills, William; Yeo, James
Alexandria Dockyard 73
working party of final year apprentices (1941) 74
Algeçiras, Bay of 10
British attack on (1727) 36
hospitals at (1726) 32
magazine at (1726) 32
Algiers: Barbary regency 11, 12
Allin, Sir Thomas 23
Ann transport (1800) 62
Antigua: water collection at 84
Aranjuez, Convention of 52
army, British
regiments
Bissett’s regiment 32
25th Foot 42
29th Foot 42
72nd Foot 39
73rd Foot 38
battalions
Clayton’s 35
Guards 35
Artois, Charles Philippe, Comte d’ 41
Assistance transport (1800) 61
Atkins, Samuel 27
describes Gibraltar (1682) 23
Ayde, General Sir John 67
Aylmer, Matthew 20
B
Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald 67
Baden-Powell, George 67
Baker, John, commands Sallee squadron 13
Baltimore (Co. Cork): attacked by Barbary corsairs 9
Barbary Coast: relations with Britain after the Treaty of Utrecht 32
Barlow, Robert, senior naval officer at Gibraltar (1804) 59
Beckman, Martin, Tangier Master Engineer: on the advantages of Gibraltar 24
Belleisle (74), HMS (1795) 83
Bellerophon (74), HMS (1786) 83
Bellona (74), HMS (1760) 59
Bentham, Samuel 86
Berwick (70), HMS (1723) 34
Beverley, John
master attendant at Gibraltar 24
master attendant at Tangier 21, 22
Bideford: attacked by Barbary corsairs 9
Bideford (20), HMS (1718) 13, 15
bills of exchange 56
Black, John, ‘The Background to the Establishment of a Naval Dockyard at Gibraltar Following the Naval Defence Act of 1889’ 65–71
Blake, Sir Robert, General-at-Sea 19
Bolton, Thomas 59
Bombay Dockyard 66, 67, 69
Boreas transport (1800) 62
Borthwick, Captain Richard 21, 22
Boscawen, Admiral Edward 16
Bo(r)schetti, Gian (or Juan) Maria 57, 58, 84, 86
Bourbon, Louis Henri, Duc de 41
Bowles, Phineas: storekeeper and muster master at Tangier 24, 26, 27
Brassey, Thomas, 1st Earl 67
Breen, Kenneth, ‘Gibraltar: Pivot of Naval Strategy in 1781’ 47–54
Brest 49, 50
Brilliant (28), HMS (1789) 39, 41
Brisbane, John: secretary of the Admiralty 22, 23, 24
Bristol, HMS 22, 23
Broderick, Vice Admiral Thomas 16
Brown, Nicholas: agent victualler to the fleet 56, 63
Bruce, Captain James A. T. 70
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of: Anglo-Spanish War 10
Burford (70), HMS (1722) 34
Byng, George
deficiencies of Gibraltar (1709) 12
Mediterranean experience 11, 28
Byng, Pattee 13
C
Cadiz
alternative to Tangier for the English Mediterranean fleet 21, 22
English attack on (1625) 10
Spanish expedition 14
Cadiz fleet (Spanish) 14
Cadiz squadron (French) 16
Cadiz squadron (Spanish) 36
Calvi, Giovanni Battista: constructs Charles V Wall (16th century) 7
Calypso transport (1801) 61
Campbell, Lt Colin 41
Canterbury (60), HMS (1722) 34
Cape Clear 50
Cape Espartel 52
Cape Palos 39
Cape Passaro, Battle of (1718) 12
Cape St Mary 35, 52
Cape St Vincent 52
Cape Spartel 14, 15, 35
Cape Trafalgar 15
Cape Velez Malaga, Battle of (1704) 19
careening
at Gibraltar (1680–82) 10
at Tangier 10
Careening Bay, Gibraltar 68
Carpenter, George, 1st Baron: Governor of Minorca 35
Carrier transport (1800) 61
Caruana, Peter: and the Rosia Water Tanks 81, 83, 86
Catherine of Braganza 10, 20
Cavendish, Admiral Philip: commands Sallee squadron 13
Ceuta 15
Spanish garrison 32
Channel Squadron, English/British
Gibraltar as shelter for 66
ironclads for 65
Charles, Archduke (Charles VI) 9
Charles II, King: Mediterranean strategy 11
Charlotte sloop 36
Chatham Royal Dockyard 68
Chesapeake, Battle of 49–50, 51
Chichester, Rear Admiral Sir Edward 70
Clayton, Colonel Jasper: Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar 34
clerks, at Gibraltar victualling yard 60
Coats, Ann, ‘Rosia Water Tanks, Gibraltar’ 81–7
Colchester (50), HMS 34, 35
Collins, Grenville 23
Colombo: dockyard proposed (1942) 78
Colossus (74), HMS 83
coopers, at Gibraltar victualling yard 60, 61
Cordon-Cadence, Luis Lopez 75
Córdova y Córdova, Admiral Luis de 52, 53
Cornwall, Rear Admiral Charles: commands Sallee squadron 12, 13, 15
Cornwall, Admiral Wolfran 28
Crillon, Louis, Duc de 42
Cromwell, Oliver 10, 19
Crown merchantman 23
Cruiser (6), HMS (1721) 34
Cuba 9
Culatto, Lionel 83, 84, 86
Curtis, Captain Sir Roger 39, 41
Franco-Spanish attack on Gibraltar (1782) 42
Cutforth, James: agent victualler 59, 60
D
Darby, Vice Admiral George 44
commands Western Squadron 50
at Cork (1781) 51–2
relieves Gibraltar (1781) 17, 39, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53
Darwin: operational repair base proposed (1942) 78
Davies, J. David: ‘Gibraltar in Naval Strategy c. 1600–1783’ 8–18
de Castries, Charles, Minister of the Marine 50–51
de Grasse, Admiral François
commands fleet in Brest (1781) 49
sails for the West Indies (1781) 50
de Repalda, Don Lorenzo, Governor of Gibraltar 27
Denis, Vice Admiral Sir Peter: commands Sallee squadron 13
d’Estaing, Admiral Charles Hector, Comte, see Estaing, Admiral Charles Hector, Comte d’
Devonport Dockyard 66, 69
Diana transport (1800) 61
Dockyard Mobile Squad
created (1941) 75
disbanded (1943) 77
at Freetown, Sierra Leone 77
at Gibraltar (1942–43) 76–7
recruitment from home yard workers 75–6
Doncaster transport (1800) 62
Dreadnought, HMS 70
Drinkwater, Captain John 39
on the scarcity of supplies (1781) 48
on Spanish strength (1781) 48
Duff, Vice Admiral Robert: commands squadron at Gibraltar 37
Durban
dockyard 74
operational repair base proposed (1942) 78
Dursley Galley (20), HMS (1719) 34, 35
E
Eastern Beach 83
Edgcumbe, Commodore George: commands Sallee squadron 13
Edward, Prince, Duke of Kent: Governor of Gibraltar 83
Elba: bread ovens supply the British fleet (1800–01) 63
Elliott, Lieutenant General William Augustus: Governor of Gibraltar 37, 38, 41, 43
England, attempted Franco-Spanish invasion of 16–17
English Harbour, Antigua: water collection at 84
Enterprise (28), HMS (1774) 39, 41
Erin, HMS 75
Estaing, Admiral Charles Hector, Comte d’
commands Brest fleet (1781) 50–51
commands Toulon squadron (1778) 16
Europa Point 83
F
Fanny transport (1800) 62
Faro: careening at 12
Ferret (10), HMS (1711) 13
Fides transport (1801) 61
Figueras, Martin 86
floating docks 73
Flora transport (1801) 61
Forbes, Captain George, Baron 36
Ford, Richard, agent victualler 56
opens a victualling yard at Palermo (1805–08) 63
uses Madalena Islands as a rendezvous (1803–05) 63
Fortune (16), HMS (1780) 43
Fowler, Thomas 27
Fox, Henry Edward 83
Freetown, Sierra Leone
floating dock and crane 77
Mobile Dockyard Squad 77
naval dry dock 66
G
Garden Island naval base 78
Gauden, Jonathan
English agent at Gibraltar (1686–90) 11, 12
storekeeper and muster master at Gibraltar (1684–90) 27, 28
Geddes, James 59
Gibraltar, English then British base at (from 1686)
abandoned (1735–37) 14
advantages of 19, 23, 24
agent at 11
arsenal (1905–06) 68
barracks 37
breakwater proposed (1759) 37
Buena Vista Barracks 83
captured by England (1704) 7, 9, 11, 19
careening at 10
fourth and fifth rate ships 12
Gloucester hulk 24
in the siege of 1727 34, 35
casemates 37
coaling station 66, 68
convict colony (to 1875) 68
Cumberland Buildings 76
deficiencies of 12, 14, 24–5
dockyard
construction of 68
dry docks
1905–06 67–68, 68, 69
1941 74
established (1894) 65
Dockyard Mobile Squad 7, 75–6
Europa Point
affordable housing 82
battery 41
proposed new barracks (1725) 32
for the Mediterranean fleet
1680 22, 23, 24
1739 14
for the Sallee squadron 7, 11, 12
forge built (1680/1) 25
garrison hospital 32, 34
Grand Arsenal 81
hutments (1940) 75, 76
hospital (1746) 15, 31, 37
Jewish community 32
King’s Bastion 37, 42
maps of 10, 33, 40, 75
mast house and pond (1756) 15
naval commissioner appointed (1756) 15
naval garrison (1905–06) 68
naval hospital (1905–06) 68, 81
New Mole at
boom for (1780) 39
extended (19th century) 67, 68, 69, 70,
floating batteries 41
Spanish fireship attack (1780) 38–9
Old Mole at
bastion proposed (1759) 37
battery erected (1727) 35, 36
built by Spain (1615–70) 10
described by Samuel Atkins (1682) 23
permission to use granted to France (1687) 27
surveyed (1680) 22
Parson’s (Lodge) Battery 81, 83
Prince’s Lines 37
proposed capture by England (1656) 10
Ragged Staff, wells at 84
Rosia Water Tanks, see Rosia Water Tanks
Royal Yacht Squadron 67
sieges of
Franco-Spanish (1704–05) 11, 31
Great Siege (1779–83) 7, 9, 16, 31
map 40
Franco-Spanish attack (1782) 42
scarcity of food and supplies 48
siege of 1726–27 7, 34–7
British casualties 36
Spanish crown property 7, 24
stores and storehouses 44
Algerine prizes used for (1681) 27
Spanish bombardment (1780–81) 41
store sheds built (after 1727) 37
storehouses built by Gauden (1686) 27
storehouses built by Herbert (1680/1) 25
storehouses built on the New Mole (1720s) 31, 38
storehouses completed (1746) 12
Unity tender (1727) 35
victualling stores (1813) 58–9, 81
Waterport 57
White Convent 57
strategic role 12,31, 53
supplies for 32
topography and natural defences 32
trade at 24,66
victualling agents, see agents victualler
victualling wharf
built (1736) 12
inadequate after the loss of Minorca (1756) 15–16
victualling yard (1812) 57, 86
cholera epidemic (1804) 59
coal store, fire in (1807) 59
pay at 61
purpose and function 64
staff at 60
water supply at 57, 84, 85, see also Rosia Water Tanks
Waterportvictualling storehouse 57
White Convent victualling storehouse 57
Willis’s Battery 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43
workers in
Gibraltarian 74
Spanish 69, 74–5
Gibraltar, Straits of 10, 15
Gibraltar Royal Dockyard, see Gibraltar English then British base at
Gibson, Captain John 41
Glen Rocky Distillery 85
Gloucester, HMS
careening hulk at Gibraltar (1680) 24
careening hulk at Tangier (1680) 21–2
Godfrey, Sir Edmondberry 23
Godolphin, Francis: English ambassador to Spain 27
Godolphin, Sidney, 1st Earl 9
Gonzales, Juan 61
Goodricke, Sir Henry: English ambassador to Spain 24
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron 9
Graves, Admiral Thomas: Battle of the Chesapeake 49–50
Great Britain: Mediterranean strategy 9, 11, 12, 13, 17
Green, Colonel William 37
Greenock 76
Guerrier (ex-Guerrière) storage ship (1800) 62, 63
H
Haddock, Admiral Nicholas: commands Mediterranean fleet (1738) 14
Haijo, HMS 75
Hamilton, Lord George, First Civil Lord
appoints Topham, Jones and Railton to extend the Gibraltar mole 68
argues for a dock at Gibraltar 66, 71
Happy Return merchantman 27
Harding, Richard, ‘Gibraltar: a tale of two sieges 1726–7 and 1779–1783’ 31–45
Hardy, Sir Charles 17
Harrison, Steven 85
Harvey, Captain Augustus 12, 15, 38, 39
Hawk (6), HMS (1721) 34
Hawke, Admiral Edward
commands Mediterranean fleet 16
on the limitations of Gibraltar (1756) 12
Heatley, David
agent victualler at Lisbon 56
victualler to the fleet 63
heavy repair ships 73
Henley & Sons 59
Herbert, Admiral Arthur 10, 11, 20
builds a forge and storehouse at Gibraltar (1680/1) 25
considers Cadiz as a base for the Mediterranean fleet 22
judges Gibraltar the finest port (1680) 23
Mediterranean experience 23
protégés 11
uses Gibraltar not Tangiers as a base for the Mediterranean fleet 22, 25
Hewer, William 27
Hillsborough, Wills Hill, Earl of 39
Hobart: operational repair base proposed (1942) 78
Hong Kong Dockyard 66, 67, 69
Chinese labour force at (1941) 77–8
Hood, Rear Admiral Samuel
at the Chesapeake 50
in the West Indies 49, 53
Hopson, Admiral Edward 13, 34
on the limitations of Gibraltar (1727) 12
ordered to the West Indies 34
Hosier, Vice Admiral Francis: second in command in the West Indies 34
Howe, Admiral Richard, Lord 44
defeats the Toulon squadron off Sandy Hook 16
relieves Gibraltar (1782) 17, 42
I
Inflexible, HMS 79n
Inglefield, Commissioner John Nicholson 57
Ironside, General Sir Edmund: Governor of Gibraltar 74–5
Isabella transport (1801) 61
J
Jamaica
British conquest of 17
Royal Navy station 49, 53
James II, King
and Sallee squadron at Gibraltar 11
and storehouses at Gibraltar 28
James Galley, HMS 23
Jennings, Admiral Sir John 34, 36
Jervis, Sir John, see St Vincent, Earl
Jowell, Tessa 87
K
Kane, Colonel Richard, deputy governor of Minorca
report on Gibraltar’s defences (1725) 32–3, 37
Keith, George, ninth Earl Marischal 14
Kempthorne, John 23
Kent (70), HMS 34
Keppel, Commodore Augustus: commands Sallee squadron 13
Kilindini: dockyard proposed (1943) 78
Killigrew, Sir Henry: commands an English squadron 27
King, Dennis 83
Knowles, Captain Sir Charles Henry 39, 41, 43
senior naval officer at Gibraltar (1782) 42
Kowloon Dockyard 66, 67, 69
L
Lagos: British watering point 14, 35
Lagos Bay, battle of 16
Landsdowne, George Granville, 1st Baron 27
Lawson, Admiral Sir John
on the advantages of Tangier 20
shelters in Gibraltar bay (1664) 23
Le Fevre, Peter, ‘Gibraltar, Tangier and the English Mediterranean Fleet 1680–1690’ 19–30
Leake, Sir John: Mediterranean experience 11
Leeward Islands station 49, 53
Leghorn: English base against the Barbary regencies 11
Lennox (70), HMS 34
Leslie, Captain Patrick 39
Liberty transport (1800) 62
Lisbon
agent victualler (David Heatley) at 56
careening at 12
Sallee squadron 11, 27
support in the Gibraltar siege of 1727 43
victualling yard at 57, 60
Llanstephan Castle (troopship) 76
Lloyd, David 23
Lloyd, Rodney M.: Admiral Superintendent at Malta 70
Lord Hood transport (1801) 61
Lord Nelson transport (1800) 62
Lowestoft, HMS: careens at Faro 12
Lurting, Robert 25
Lyme (20), HMS 34, 35
Lyon pink 34
M
Macdonald, Janet, ‘The Victualling Yard at Gibraltar and its role in feeding the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars’ 55–64
MacDougall, Philip, ‘Disuniting the Workforce: Intensifying the Dockyard Labour Crisis of 1941’ 73–9
Madalena Islands: British rendezvous (1803–1805) 63
Mahon, Minorca, see Port Mahon, Minorca
Major transport (1800) 61
Malta
Dockyard 73
English base against the Barbary regencies 11
victualling yard at Valetta 63, 64
Man, Vice Admiral Robert: commands Sallee squadron 13
Manchester Ship Canal Company 68
Mansell, Sir Robert: Algiers expedition (1620) 9–10
Mareno, Manuel 61
Marigold, HMS: wrecked at Tangier 20
Martinique 49
Mary Ann transport (1800) 61
Matto, Robert 84
Maynard, John, English consul at Lisbon: on the advantages of Tangier 20
Mayne, Rear Admiral Robert 67
Mediterranean fleet
based at Gibraltar (from 1684) 27
based at Port Mahon 14
cruising stations 14, 15, 16
Nicholas Haddock commands (1738) 14
Edward Hawke commands 16
Henry Medley commands 15
Sir Chaloner Ogle commands 15
Henry Osborn commands 16
William Rowley commands 15
Medley, Vice Admiral Henry
commands Mediterranean fleet 15
Italian mistress an enemy agent 15
Millbank Prison 68
Minorca
British gain (1708) 31
British loss (1756) 9, 15
British loss (1782) 41
British recovery (1763) 16
Montagu, Edward, General-at-Sea 10, 19
on the possible capture of Gibraltar (1656) 19–20
Morley, Thomas 21
Morocco, Emperor of 37
Muckle, Lt George 41
Mulgrave, Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron 39
Muñoz, Jose Martinez 75
N
Napoleon: and Ottoman Empire 63
Narborough, Sir John 21
favours Livorno and Minorca over Tangier 22
Naval Defence Act (1889) 7, 65, 66, 67
Navy Board: and storehouses at Gibraltar 25, 26
Navy League 67
Nelly transport (1801) 61
Nelson, Vice Admiral Horatio 59, 83
victualling (1803–1805) 63
Niger (32), HMS (1759) 83
Nonsuch (or Nonesuch) (64), HMS (1774) 23, 24
Norfolk transport (1800) 61
Norris, Admiral Sir John 12
Mediterranean experience 28
squadron operates from Lisbon 14
at Tangier (1680) 22
O
OEM 82
Ogle, Rear Admiral Sir Chaloner: commands Mediterranean fleet 15
Oran 9
Ordnance Board 26, 57
Osborn, Vice-Admiral Henry: commands Mediterranean fleet 16
Otway, William Henry: Commissioner of Gibraltar Yard 58, 83–4
P
Palermo: victualling yard at (from 1805) 57, 63, 64
Panther (60), HMS (1758) 38, 39
Parker, Admiral Sir Peter: commands Jamaica squadron 49, 53
Pasley, Lieutenant General Sir Charles W. 84
patteroes 32
Peace transport (1800) 61
Pepys, Samuel 26
Plymouth merchantman 25
Poggio, Albert 86
Porcupine (24), HMS 39, 41, 42, 43
Port Mahon, Minorca
advantages of 12
British base for the Mediterranean fleet (1738–39) 14
British loss of 9, 12, 44
careening at 12
cost of (1747) 12
English base against the Barbary regencies 11
preferable to Tangier 21
supports Gibraltar in the siege of 1727 43
victualling yard at 57, 59, 63, 64
Portland (50), HMS (1723) 34
Portland Royal Dockyard 66, 69
Portmore, David Colyear, 1st Earl of 36
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard 66, 67, 69
Postle-thwaite transport (1800) 61
pozzolanic cement: in the Rosia Water Tanks 84–5
Priestman, Henry: commands Sallee squadron 19
Pownall, Edward, deputy commissioner 59
Prince (98), HMS (1788) 83
Prince Frederick (70), HMS (1714) 35
Prince George transport (1801) 61
Prince Royal [Princess Royal] (90) HMS (1773) 59
Public Navy Works Loans 69
Puerto Rico 9
Puntal: careening at 21
Puntalles 35
Q
Queensway 83
R
Repulse (floating battery), HMS 41, 42, 43
Revel, Mr 34
Robert transport (1800) 61
Richards, Sir Francis: Governor of Gibraltar 83, 86
Robinson, Les 76, 77
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess 54
Rodney, Admiral George 44
Commander-in-Chief West Indies 49, 50, 53
relieves Gibraltar (1780) 17, 38
Rooke, Admiral George
captures Gibraltar (1704) 9, 19
Mediterranean experience 11, 28
Rosia Bay Victualling Yard
destroyed (2006) 7
Rosia Cottages 84
Rosia Distillery 84
Rosia House 83
Rosia Water Tanks 81–7
built (1799–1804) 58, 83
construction materials 84–5
described 84, 86
dimensions 84
destroyed (2006) 83
estimated costs of 58
Ross, Rear Admiral Sir John Lockheart 39, 41
Rotherham, Captain Edward 83
Rowley, Vice Admiral William: commands Mediterranean fleet (1745) 15
Royal Navy, see Mediterranean fleet
Royal Oak (70), HMS (1713) 34
Royal Sovereign (100), HMS (1786) 83
Royal Yacht Squadron, Gibraltar 67
Rufford transport (1800) 61
S
St Eustatius 50
St Firmin (or Fermin) (ex-San Firmin) (14), HMS 39
St Jeremy’s Bay 15
St Michael (ex-San Miguel) (74), HMS (1773) 42, 42–3
St Michel, Balthazar, Agent General of the Victualling
at Gibraltar 24
at Tangier 22
report on storeships at Gibraltar (1681) 26
returns to England (1681) 24, 26
St Vincent, Earl 56, 57, 58
builds Rosia Water Tanks 83
St Vincent House 83
Salé (Sallee), Barbary regency: privateers or corsairs 7, 9
Sallee squadron
John Baker commands 13
based in Gibraltar 11
based in Lisbon 7
Charles Cornwall commands 13
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, commodore 11
Samaria (liner) 79n
San Juan Nepomuceno (74) (Spanish) 83
San Miguel (72) (Spanish) 42, see also St Michael (ex-San Miguel), HMS
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl: First Lord of the Admiralty
and Commons inquiry of 1782 47, 53
and relief of Gibraltar 48
and the Western Squadron 50
Sandy Hook 16
Sapphire, HMS 23, 24
Scott, Colonel John 22
Serfaty, William 84, 86
Sheerness (32), HMS (1691) 13
Sheres, Henry 21
Solebay (bomb), HMS (1711) 34
Shovell, Admiral Sir Cloudesley
commands Sallee squadron 19, 27
Mediterranean experience 11, 28
at Tangier (1681) 25
at Gibraltar (1684) 27
Simonstown: naval yard 74
‘Sinbad’, on the dry dock at Gibraltar (1890) 70
Singapore Dockyard: Chinese labour force at (1941) 77–8
Sir William Arrol & Co.: dockyard crane (1958) 76
Smeaton, John 85
Soames, William, vice consul at Gibraltar 24
Spanish navy: fleet at Gibraltar destroyed by Jacob van Heemskerck (1607) 10
Spanish Succession, War of 13, 31
Speedwell, HMS (20) (in 1718) 13
Speedwell, HMS (14) (in 1780) 39
Spencer, John, 5th Earl 67
Spithead 52
Stenhouse, Mr 26
Stephens, Philip, Admiralty secretary 52
Sterling Castle (70), HMS (1723) 34
Stuart, Charles Edward 15, 33
Sunbeam (yacht) 67
Success transport (1801) 61
Suez Canal 66
Sunderland, Robert, Earl of 24, 28
Swallow (50), HMS (1719) 34
Swiftsure (74), HMS (1787) 83
Swinton, Lt Samuel, English agent in Paris 52
T
Tangier
acquired by England (1661) 10, 20
careening at 10, 20, 21
careening hulk at (1680) 21–2
English garrison 20
English merchants refuse to settle 20
evacuated (1684) 27
harbour at 20
mole at, see Tangier mole
Moors, treaty with (1680) 22
ships’ stores unavailable at 21
storehouses at 21
transports’ agent 21
used by Genoese merchants 20
victualling agent (1678) 22
victualling depot 7, 21
Tangier mole 10, 11
blown up (1684) 27
contract for its construction (1663) 20–21
surveyed by five masters from the Mediterranean fleet (1680) 23
Tariq: constructs base at Gibraltar (1711) 7
Tartar, HMS 13
Tetuan 60, 63
Thunder (bomb), HMS 34
Thunderer (74), HMS (1782) 83
Thurloe, John 19
Topham, Jones and Railton 68
Torbay (70), HMS (1719) 35
Torch, Operation 74–5
Toulon fleet (French) 14
Toulon squadron (French) 16
Trigge, Sir Thomas, acting Governor of Gibraltar (1803–1804) 83, 84
Trincomalee: operational repair base proposed (1942) 78
Tripoli, Barbary regency 11
Truelove transport (1801) 61
Tucker, Benjamin, agent victualler 59
Tucker, Malcolm 84
Tunis, Barbary regency 11
Tyger (50), HMS (1722) 34, 35
Tyler, Colonel 58
U
Unity tender: storeship at Gibraltar 35
Utrecht, Treaty of 7, 31
V
Valetta
naval dockyard at 66
victualling yard at 57
Valiant, HMS: repaired at Alexandria (1941) 74
van Heemskerck, Jacob: destroys the Spanish fleet at Gibraltar (1607) 10
Vanguard (floating battery), HMS 41, 42, 43
Vaughan, ?, victualling agent at Gibraltar 15–16
Venice Merchant 27
Venus transport (1800) 62
Victoria, Juan José Navarro, 1st Marquis de la 15
Victory (100), HMS (1765) 83
victualling, naval: daily proportion of provisions 55–6
victualling agents, see agents victualler
Victualling Board
costs of stores shipped to Gibraltar (1681) 25
instructions for victualling agents 56
provisions shipped to Gibraltar (1800 and 1801) 61
return of victualling stores at Gibraltar (5 April 1800) 62
transports to Gibraltar (1800 and 1801) 61, 62
victualling yards
Gibraltar, see Gibraltar victualling yard
Palermo (1805–08) 63
Rosia Bay (1812) 57
Valetta 63
Viegas, Juaquin 61
W
Wager, Vice Admiral Sir Charles 13–14
at Gibraltar (1726/7) 34, 43–4
fails to capture the Flota 35
Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, Viscount 38
Wharton, Philip, 1st Duke of 14
Wilkie, Patrick: agent victualler at Malta 59
William Bruce transport (1800) 61
Wills, William: agent victualler to the fleet 56, 63
Wimbledon, Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount 10, 19
Winchester (50), HMS (1717) 34, 35
Windmill Hill 83
Windsor transport (1800) 62
Winooski, HMS 77
Y
Yarmouth (70), HMS (1709) 35
Yeo, James: agent victualler 59
York (60), HMS (1706) 34
Yorktown, British surrender at 47, 49
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