Sailing from the strait of Gibraltar in to the bey, a steel, grave warship shaped a reminder that Britain is still the dominant overseas power on the rock. And for the locals, long may it remain so.
HMS Westminster is here as part of a long planned naval exercise and not a reaction to the current diplomatic feud between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar. But it can’t hurt the political posturing to have a frigate tied up in the harbor with two large support ships to cramp with war marines alongside.
-It's essential that we have here a frigate all the time. It’s not for defy, but to show these agers(?) that this is a British one.
-Margaret Thatcher met with King Juan Carlos and then Prime Minister of S
