Yes being originally a Portsmouth boat its the Portsmouth Sally port shes named after. Sally as in sally forth to fight the enemy and port as in French door...
On Tuesday, 19 July 2016, Teri [via Langstone Cutters RC] <
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Wiki is spot on - comes from the world of defensive fortifications where a double doorway will be the only way into a part of the building, and from the 1600s onwards seemed to be used as a term for a water / dock gate for wherries, gigs etc to pick up / land crews for ships moored offshore. The Sally Port down by the Square Tower in Old Portsmouth isn't the only one where there are naval docks, there's one in Newcastle ( Sallyport Tower in Tower Street), and there's (possibly) still one in the Grand Harbour in Malta ....................... for the trivia minded there was also an HMS Sallyport involved in the Suez crisis in the 50s ........... but that's a whole different tack!
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