On Tuesday night, July 18, 2006 a Royal Navy warship-HMS Gloucester left Beirut carrying children and pregnant women in a large-scale evacuation of Britons fleeing the Israeli onslaught of Lebanon. The HMS Gloucester, a Type 42 destroyer, had about 180 priority evacuees on board, as it set off on the 150 mile trip to Cyprus. Those priority evacuees were all women and children. Ninety-four years after the sinking of the Titanic the British Navy still adheres to the doctrine of “Women and Children First.”

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