Ibiza control of Carthage, also a former Phoenician colony. The island produced dye, salt, fish sauce (garum), and wool. A shrine with offerings to the goddess Tanit was established in the cave at Es Cuieram, and the rest of the Balearic Islands entered Eivissa's commercial orbit after 400 BC. Ibiza was a major trading post along the Mediterranean routes. Ibiza began establishing its own trading stations along the nearby Balearic island of Majorca, such as "Na Guardis", and "Na Galera" where numerous Balearic mercenaries hired on, no doubt as slingers, to fight for Carthage. During the Second Punic War, the island
HMS Minorca (1805) HMS Minorca (1805) HMS "Minorca" was a "Cruizer"-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mediterranean and was sold in 1814 after an uneventful career. Commander Henry Duncan commissioned "Minorca" in August 1805 and then sailed her for the Mediterranean. Duncan received promotion to post captain on 16 January 1806, but was not actually replaced until 19 April. Commander Granville George Waldegrave replaced Duncan. On 23 December "Minorca" captured a Spanish merchant vessel. As "Minorca" was entering the Straits of Gibraltar on her way to join her station at Gibraltar, 11