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Historic city gates within Gibraltar’s fortifications, near South Bastion shoreline.

Ragged Staff Gates are historic city gates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. They form part of the Fortifications of Gibraltar and lie between South Bastion and Ragged Staff Guard, opposite the Navy Boat Sheds. The gates open through the Line Wall Curtain across the Southport Ditch.

Ragged Staff Gates are a set of historic city gates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. They form part of the Fortifications of Gibraltar and are located between South Bastion and Ragged Staff Guard, opposite the Navy Boat Sheds. The gates open access through the section of the Line Wall Curtain immediately south of South Bastion, across the Southport Ditch. A contractor to the Victualling Yard built a wharf about 100 metres long where goods were delivered via steps and a drawbridge, known as the Ragged Staff Couvreport. The first gate at Ragged Staff was cut through the defensive wall in 1736. The new gates led to what was known as Ordnance Wharf, which projected in front of the Dockyard’s North Gate. Behind the gate there was an enclosure defended by soldiers in its guardroom, with a flank position that had three embrasures in its parapet and appears to have mounted two guns in 1779. The nearby Ragged Staff Guard house could be seen by approaching ships. The gates are owned by the Government of Gibraltar and are open to the public. There is debate but no conclusion over the origin of the name “Ragged Staff.”