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Notes from our Archive
Here's an interesting Governor's order from the early eighteenth century:
Ships coming into the Bay without showing their colours are to be fired on, and the cost of the shot recovered in the Port dues.
Image: Gibraltar with ships in Straits by Dominic Serres RA (1772-1793). Oil, Gibraltar National Museum.
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18-20 Bomb House Lane
PO Box 939,
Gibraltar