1 Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society, volume 2: Gibraltar as a Naval Base and Dockyard Index References to illustrations are in italics. A Admiralty Labour Section 74, 75 Adventure, HMS 23, 24 Aetna (bomb), HMS 83 Agamemnon (64), HMS 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 2 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 59 Beckman, Martin, Tangier Master Engineer: on the advantages of Gibraltar 24 Belleisle (74), HMS 83 Bellerophon (74), HMS 83 Bellona (74), HMS 59 Bentham, Samuel 86 Berwick (70), HMS 34 Beverley, John master attendant at Gibraltar 24 master attendant at Tangier 21, 22 Bideford: attacked by Barbary corsairs 9 Bideford, HMS 13, 15 bills of exchange 56 3 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 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 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 4 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, HMS 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 5 Charles II, King: Mediterranean strategy 11 Charlotte sloop 35 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, HMS 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 6 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 d’Estaing, Admiral Charles Hector, Comte, see Estaing, Admiral Charles Hector, Comte d’ Denis, Vice Admiral Sir Peter: commands Sallee squadron 13 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 34, 35 E Eastern Beach 83 Edgcumbe, Commodore George: commands Sallee squadron 13 Edward, Prince, Duke of Kent: Governor of Gibraltar 83 7 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 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, HMS 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, HMS 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 8 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 9 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 10 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 11 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 Waterport victualling storehouse 57 White Convent victualling storehouse 57 Willis’s Battery 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43 workers in Gibraltarian 74 Spanish