Military, naval & aerial · also Foreign institution
Narrows Watch
Also called watch of the Black Salt Fort
The watch kept at the Black Salt Fort over the Narrows of Ormano, the entrance every Basin hull must pass. Its book is the nearest thing the Basin has to a record of who went where.
Named with it
- Battery Captain Ruy Mendes
Ties
- its book is consulted by the courts and underwriters
- the narrows are a British interest the Admiralty reviews annually
At the table
The fort has never fired on a merchantman; its value is that everything is seen there. The book is consulted by courts and underwriters. The garrison has an unwritten, inherited arrangement with whoever keeps the walled ground on the heights above. Companies should carry nothing through Ormano they would not show.