 After port calls were concluded , the ships headed for Gibraltar , where they found a conglomerate of warships from many different nations awaiting them " with decks manned and horns blaring " : the battleships HMS Albemarle and Albion with the cruiser HMS Devonshire and the Second Cruiser Squadron represented Great Britain 's Royal Navy , battleships Tsesarevich and Slava with cruisers Admiral Makarov , Bogatyr and Oleg represented the Imperial Russian Navy , and various gunboats represented France and the Netherlands . After coaling for five days , the ships got under way and left for home on 6 February 1909 . 
