The 1st Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar was a naval engagement in which ten Levant company ships were met and intercepted by twelve Spanish galleys were under Giovanni Andrea Doria in the service of Spain in the region of the Gibraltar Straits on 24 April 1590.
The 1st Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar was a naval engagement took place on 24 April 1590 during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585. Ten English ships of the Levant company were met and intercepted by twelve Spanish galleys under Giovanni Andrea Doria in the service of Spain in the region of the Gibraltar Straits on 24 April 1590.