Gibraltar
The Fleet met in Gibraltar after being divided during the month of January to prepare for the trip home.
They arrived on January 31st, and the day being a Sunday, the normal salutes were not fired until the next day. For one hour next morning the port of Gibraltar seemed to be the scene of a naval engagement at close range. The USS Connecticut saluted the port and Vice-Admiral Sir James Goodrich, the commander of all the naval establishments at Gibraltar, with twenty-one guns, and when these had been returned, gun for gun, from a shore battery, and the British battleship Albemarle, and other salutes were fired to and answered by the Russian, French and Dutch warships in port.
Five days were spent in their last port to take on coal, food, and visit the British port.
Cheers
Sean
