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Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar (1591)
:''For another battle see Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar (1590).''
The Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar was a naval action off Gibraltar on 24 April 1591. A fleet of three English merchant vessels escorted by a larger armed merchant vessel ''Centurion'' was attacked by five Spanish galleys. Ultimately, the Spanish were repelled, but not before the English vessel ''Dolphin'' was sunk by one of the galleys.
==Background==
The merchants of London, which included ships of the Levant Company, were sailing for various ports but had banded together to sail through the heavily Spanish-dominated Straits of Gibraltar. Among these ships was the ''Centurion'', a large armed merchant vessel but weakly manned.
The ''Centurion'' arrived at Marseilles, on her outward bound voyage after delivering her goods, she remained there for more than five weeks, taking in lading, and then intended to return to England. When she was ready to depart from Marseilles, there were other smaller sundry ships. Their masters of which interested Robert Bradshaw of Limehouse, the master of the ''Centurion'', to stay a day or two for them until they could get in readiness to depart. They agreed that it would be far better for them all to go in company for mutual support and defence, than to run the hazard of falling into the hands of the Spanish galleys in the Straits as they had done the year before. Bradshaw agreed and set out along with them all engaging mutually to stand by each other, if they chanced to fall in with any of the Spanish galleys.〔Rosedale p. 22〕 The Spanish meanwhile had sent six galleys from Cartagena, part of a squadron of twelve under Giovanni Andrea Doria, to convey the Spanish ambassador to Rome.
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