Several vessels have been named Gibraltar, for
Gibraltar:
Gibraltar (1786 ship) was launched in France in 1776, almost certainly under another name. Between 1787 and 1795, she was a
whaler in the
northern whale (Greenland) fishery. A French privateer captured her in February 1796 as she was on her way to the fishery, and burnt her. Her loss led the British government to increase the protection of the outward-bound whaling fleet.
Gibraltar, of 764
GRT, was an iron screw-steamer that Cole Bros. of Shields, launched in 1873. A Swede purchased her. On 19 November 1881 she was wrecked at Lonstrup, south of Hirtshals, Denmark, on a voyage from Sunderland to Stockholm with a cargo of coal.[1]
Gibraltar, of 3,803
GRT, was a steel screw-steamer that Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, launched on 14 November 1901. On 12 September 1917
SM UC-17 torpedoed her at 41°10′N5°30′E / 41.17°N 5.50°E / 41.17; 5.50, 100 miles SE by S of Cape de Creus. Gibraltar was sailing from Karachi to Marseilles.[2]
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Several vessels have been named Gibraltar, for
Gibraltar:
Gibraltar (1786 ship) was launched in France in 1776, almost certainly under another name. Between 1787 and 1795, she was a
whaler in the
northern whale (Greenland) fishery. A French privateer captured her in February 1796 as she was on her way to the fishery, and burnt her. Her loss led the British government to increase the protection of the outward-bound whaling fleet.
Gibraltar, of 764
GRT, was an iron screw-steamer that Cole Bros. of Shields, launched in 1873. A Swede purchased her. On 19 November 1881 she was wrecked at Lonstrup, south of Hirtshals, Denmark, on a voyage from Sunderland to Stockholm with a cargo of coal.[1]
Gibraltar, of 3,803
GRT, was a steel screw-steamer that Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, launched on 14 November 1901. On 12 September 1917
SM UC-17 torpedoed her at 41°10′N5°30′E / 41.17°N 5.50°E / 41.17; 5.50, 100 miles SE by S of Cape de Creus. Gibraltar was sailing from Karachi to Marseilles.[2]
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.