It was the ROCK OF
GIBRALTAR, their largest and best boat.
From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France, Marseilles will be reached in three days.
Alicant, Carthagena, Palos, and Malaga will be passed but a mile or two distant, and Gibraltar reached in about twenty-four hours.
A ship bound for Australia had sent to the Sailors' Home for a stoker in place of one who had thrown himself overboard off
Gibraltar in an attack of delirium tremens.
And so it happened that on a certain day two vessels passed in the Strait of
Gibraltar. The smaller, a trim white yacht, was speeding toward the east, and on her deck sat a young woman who gazed with sad eyes upon a diamondstudded locket which she idly fingered.
Well he remembered as a young man, in the harbour of
Gibraltar once, how a girl--a handsome girl, too--had jumped overboard for a bet.
The event's Facebook page said it will run until August 26.The
Gibraltar Chronicle quoted a statement from the organizers saying the rally continues to attract "increasing numbers of participants."Boatshed
Gibraltar organized the event and "persuaded Alcaidesa Marina and Tanja Marina Bay to step in and sponsor the rally" in 2019.The
Gibraltar Chronicle noted that participants raise funds for the Red Cross by bidding on prizes.
In a statement yesterday,
Gibraltar's government said the ship would be free to go, as US sanctions on Iran have no equivalent in the UK or the rest of the EU.
The Supreme Court in
Gibraltar had delayed a decision to release the Grace 1 after the US Department of Justice made an application to extend the vessel's detention, the
Gibraltar government said.
The marines were brought in to use their specialist boarding skills to help ensure the Royal
Gibraltar Police could gain access to the tanker at sea.
The
Gibraltar Chronicle obtained radio traffic between the boats, which allegedly told the boats they were "violating the condition of innocent passage".