tm.html#Page_229" class="pginternal">229; officers, 230; and sea charts, 243 Charles V, 133, 170 Charts, compilation of, 171; Wagenaer’s, 214, 219; Charles II and James II and, 243; of British coast, 18th century, 256; English, 257 Chatham, 184; dockyard, 226, 274 Chavez, Alonso and Hieronymo de, 138, 171 Chelsea pensioners on Anson’s voyage, 251 China tea trade, 288–9 Chinese, the, and the compass, 119; voyages of, 119 Chios, battle of, 52 Chronometer, the coming of the, 178, 254 Church services in Navy, 17th century, 227 Cinque Ports, 140 Circle, great, sailing, 178, 211, 213 Civil War, the Navy during the, 236 Classis Britannica, 67, 79 Claudius, 67 Clerk, John, “Naval Tactics,” 269 Clinton (pirate), 222 “Close-fights,” 188 Clothing, seamen’s, 18th century, 264 Cockpit, 282 “Code de la Mer,” 151 Colbert, Jean B., 230 Colliers, London, of the 18th century, 251 Collins, Greenville, 243 Colonies, the, and seamanship, 230 Colosseum, the, 69 Colours of men-o’-war, 279; internal, 246, 280 Columbus, Bartolomeo, 156 Columbus, Christopher, effect of Prince Henry’s work, 131; his place, 136; his log, 155; his ships and navigation, 155; his studies, 156; and the Vikings, 156; sets sail on first voyage, 157; speed, 158; his helmsman, 158; reckonings, 159; sights land, 160; homeward bound, 217; court-martial, 218; fleet tactics, 218; seamanship, 219–20 Elizabethan seamen as nautical experts, 171 Emigration sailing ships to U.S.A., 283, 284 English as shipbuilders, 231 English Channel, winds, 72; the Romans in the, 72; tides, 74, 76; John Davis and, 211; piracy, 222 Equator, the, 178 Eric, son of Hakon, 109 Ericson, Thorstein, 87 Erith Dockyard, 181 Erling Askew, 94, 101 Erling Skialgson, 94 Eruli, 91 Espagnols sur Mer, Les, battle of, 144 Eudoxus, 27 Euphrates, shipbuilding on the, 17 Euripides, terms in, 36 Eustace the Monk, 143 Exmouth, Admiral Lord, and pirates of Algiers, 224 Exploration, claims in, 121 Faroe Isles, 116 Fenner, Capt., 217 Fighting instructions, 270 Fighting tops, 110 Figureheads, 102, 280 Fire, braziers of, used by Rhodians, 53 Fireships, 53 Flag, national, use of, by ancient Greeks, 48 Flag saluting, 208 Flamborough, 243 Flamstead, John, 212 Flemming (pirate), 222 Fleur-de-lys on the compass, 120 Flintshire, 243 Flogging, 265, 286 Fog signalling, 228 Forelands, beacons on the, 243 Forest of Dean, 275 “Fothering,” 262 Francesco da Barberino, 151 Fraser, Edward, “Greenwich Royal Hospital,” 272 French as shipbuilders, 231 French Government and longitude, 254 Froissart quoted, 145 GaliotÆ (galley-men), 141, 146 Gama, Vasco da, 22254 Maspero, Prof., on the Egyptians and the sea, 11 Masts, length of, 17th century, 225 Match-tubs, 282 Matthews, Admiral Thomas, 266 Mediterranean, the, Egyptian ships on the, 12; Phoenicians in the, 22 Medway, the, 184 Melinda, 136 Men-o’-war. See Wooden walls. Mercator, Gerard, “Mappemonde,” 219; chart, 248 Meridians, converging, Ptolemy and, 116 Messahala on the astrolabe, 175 Meteorology. Virgil’s description of weather, 83–4 Midshipmen, 18th century, 251 Minnes, Vice-Admiral, 242 Misenum, 66 Missionaries as geographical discoverers, 117 Monck, Admiral, 229, 241 Monson, Sir William, “Naval Tracts,” 194, 198, 226 Moon-dial, the, 248 Moore’s “Midshipman’s Vocabulary,” 263 Moorish pirates, 223 Mozambique, 136 Mutinies at Spithead, the Nore, etc., 267 MykenÆans, the, and decorated sails, 51 Myonnesos, battle of, 52 Nansen, Dr., on Pytheas, 28; on the Vikings, 85, 90, 92 Napier, John, and logarithms, 224 Narrow Seas, the, 214, 219 Nature, man and the forces of, 10 Naumachia, 68 NautÆ (sailors), 141, 146 “Nautical Almanac,” 254 Nautical words. See Sea terms Naval Academy, Portsmouth, 250 Naval education in Portugal, 128 et seq.; in England, 229; in France, 230; 17th century, 248; 18th century, 250 Naval warfare in England, early, 144; as a science, 182; 18th-century tactics, 267, 268. See also Tactics Navigation, the beginning of, 5; of the ancient Egyptians, 14; of the Phoenicians,
Pytheas of Massilia, the pioneer of navigation, 6, 27; his voyages of discovery, 28 Quadrant, Davis’s, 212; Flamstead’s, 212; Halley’s, 212 Quadriremes and quinquiremes, 38, 42–3 Rameses II, galleys of, 12 Ramming, Greek warships and, 30, 41; method of, by Rhodians, 52; in the Middle Ages, 143 Raud the Unchristened, 104 Ravenna, 66 Ravens used by the Vikings, 87 Rawlinson, Professor George, on biremes, 19; on Phoenician navigation, 22 Reckonings, 256 Rectores (masters), 141, 146 Red Sea, the, 12 Reef, 145 Renaissance, the, and cartography, 124; and shipping, 170 Rhodes, ancient, ships of, 52; celoces, 52; naval tactics, 52; ramming, 52; naval organisation, 53; shipbuilding, 53; sea prowess, 54; as a port, 54; sea law, 55; “Code Navale des Rhodiens,” 151 Rhumb-lines, 213 Richard I and his Crusader fleet, 139; his naval tactics, 143 Richardson, Wm., “A Mariner of England,” 264 Rigging, wire, 289 Rochelle, action off, 273 Rodney, Admiral Lord, 230; signals, 266; Battle of the Saints, 268; victories of, 270 Roman boat found at Westminster, 78–81 Roman galley, 5; shipowners, 56–7; merchants and barge-owners, 57; corn-ships, 57; warships, 61, 65; docks, 62; the fleets, 62, 66, 67; naval warfare, 62; squadrons, 64; standing navy abolished, 289 Speed recording without log, 158 Spithead, mutiny at, 267 Spritmast, 283 Squaresails, 260 Starboard, 108 Statham’s “Privateers and Privateering,” 261 Steel, Robert, and Son, Greenock, 288 Steering wheels, 256, 272–3 Sterns, decorated, 280, 282 Stokes Bay, 239 Storm, great, of 1703, 272 Strabo on the Sidonian navigation, 22 Stuart seamanship, 235 Stuart warships, 244; rig and sails, 244; decks and armament, 245–6; workmanship and decoration, 245–8 Sturmanni (steersmen), 141, 146 Suez Canal, 288 Surgeons, 282 Svein, King, 93, 101, 108 Swearing, 265 Swin Channel, 214, 258 Syria, 152 Tacking, the art of, 10 Tactics, naval, 17th century, 238; in Anglo-Dutch war, 239; line-ahead, 239; schools of, 240; 18th century, 268; French, 268; Clerk’s “Naval Tactics,” 269; Lord Howe’s changes, 270; Jervis’s tactics, 271 Tampion’s portable barometer, 259 Tartaglia, Nicholas, “Arte of Shooting,” 216 Tea clippers, 288, 289 Tetricus the Elder, 78 Texel, mutiny off the, 267 Thames estuary, 77, 214, 258 Thames, Roman boat found in the, 78–81 Thames waterman as seaman, 12 Thanet, 77 Themistocles and a navy, 38 Thole-pins, 35 Thorburg Shavehewer, 96, 97 Thorleif the Sage, 109 Thorowgood, Capt. Thomas, WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD.
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I. Body Plan, etc., of an Early Nineteenth-Century 74-Gun Ship. (Larger) II. A Portable Crab Winch of the Early Nineteenth Century. III. Longitudinal Plan of an Early Nineteenth-Century 74-Gun Ship. (Larger) IV. A 330-Ton Merchant Ship of the Early Nineteenth Century. Upper illustration shows method of framing. Lower illustration gives plan of upper deck, indicating positions of windlass, masts, hatches, capstan, pump, etc. (See Chapter X.) V. Shrouds of Mainmast, Early Nineteenth-Century Ship. VI. Design of the Stern of an Early Nineteenth-Century 330-Ton Merchant Ship. VII. Midship Section of 330-Ton Merchant Ship of the Early Nineteenth Century. VIII. Longitudinal Plan of an Early Nineteenth-Century 330-Ton Merchantman. Length between perpendiculars, 108 ft. 3¼ in. Extreme breadth, 27 ft. 6 in. Depth, 12 ft. Length on keel, 82 ft. IX. Plans of an Early Nineteenth-Century 74-Gun Ship. (Larger) X. Iron Clipper Sailing Ship “Lord of the Isles.” Length between perpendiculars, 185 ft. Extreme breadth, 29 ft. 1000 tons displacement. XI. The Wooden Clipper Ship “Schomberg.” Length between perpendiculars, 262 ft. 6 in. Extreme breadth, 45 ft. 2600 tons burthen. Plan XI, left and right sides left side right side
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