Crimean War, 268, 323
Cromwell and the Navy, 233
Crowinshield, —, 295
Crusades, ships of the, 17, 138, 139, 141, 146, 153, 172
Cuyp, A., 5
Cypress, 246
Dam, or Damme, seal of, 154, 276, 304
Dampier, William, 246, 258
Danes, the, and British love of ships, 109
Dartmouth, 202, 215, 216
Dassie, Le Sieur, 243
David II. of Scotland, coin of, 157
Davits, 177
Dead-eyes, 178
Deal “galley,” 131;
luggers, 318
Deane, Sir Anthony, 236, 241, 245, 321
Deane, Anthony, the younger, 246
Decks, 148, 171, 196, 205, 246
Decoration of royal yachts, 322
Decoration of ships, _temp._ Henry VIII., 188, 191;
_temp._ Elizabeth, 194;
during the Commonwealth, 233
Deptford, 322
Devon, men of, 202, 291
Devonport, 257
Dhow, the, 44
Digby, Captain, 239
Dilke, Lady E. F. S., 5
Dixon, Mr. Charles, 5, 241, 255
Doldrums, the, 332
Dover, seal of, 152
Drake’s, Sir Francis, voyage round the world, 202
Draught, Elizabethan, 194
“Drift sail,” 225
Dublin, 138
Duemichen, Dr., 40
Dug-outs, ancient, discoveries of, 100
Dumbarton, 274
Dumfries, ancient boat found near, 100
Dungeness, 319
Dunraven, Earl of, 183
Dutch develop fore-and-aft rig, 282, 283
Dutch East India Company, 322
Dutch East Indiamen, sterns of, 243
Dutch exploration of N.-E. Passage, 219
Dutch man-of-war, seventeenth century, model of, 243
Dutch naval rivalry, seventeenth century, 231
Dutch navy in 1675, 236
Dutch schuyts, 303
Dutch ships and English men-of-war, 232
Dutch, war with the, 1667, 237;
invasion of England, 237, 241
East Coast ketch, 303, 304
East India Company, founding of, 221;
under James I., 226;
monopoly, 258
East India Company, Dutch, 322
East Indiamen, 258
Eddystone Lighthouse, 246
Edgar, King, navy of, 132;
as a yachtsman, 320
Edinburgh Museum, ancient boat in, 101
Edward I., ships of the time of, 154
Edward III., navy of, 157;
fleet at the siege of Calais, 158
Edward IV., ships of, 174;
shipping in the reign of, 161
Edward VI., ships of, 191
Edward VII., ships of, 264;
yacht _Britannia_, 329
Egyptians, ancient, history of ships, 20-45;
dynasties, 28;
expedition to Punt, 39;
exploration, 26;
rig of ships, 11, 29, 38;
shape of ships, 9;
model rigged boat discovered, 3
Elizabeth, Queen, maritime affairs under, 193-221
Elm sheathing, 245
England as the “Sovereign of the Seas,” _temp._ John, 148;
_temp._ Elizabeth, 201
English fleet, the, opposed to the Armada, 211
English Navy, the, in 1675, 236
English sailing ships, Viking influence on, 127
English skill, 18
Ensigns. _See_ Flags
Etruscan vase showing naval warfare, 64
Europe, Northern, early ships of, 89-127
Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of, seal of, 166
Eyes on ships, 11, 65
Fabriano, Gentile da, 161
Fife, Mr. William, 326, 327, 333
Fife & Son, of Fairlie, 333
Fighting-tops, 16, 65, 181
Figureheads, 12, 194, 228
Fireships, 236
FitzGerald, Henry, 146
Flags, banners, ensigns, streamers, &c., 176, 188, 199, 241, 248, 254
Flagships, 157
Florence, Duke of, 246
Forecastle, Greek, 65
Forecastles reduced, 194. _See also_ Castles
France and England, Norman trade between, 137
French models in English naval architecture, 259
French navy in 1675, 236
French ships, fifteenth century, 164;
seventeenth century, 244;
warships, sixteenth century, 184;
eighteenth century, 249
French, ships taken from the, 257
Friesland oarsmen, 131
Froude, Mr. William, 328
Furneaux, Mr. Henry, on “pontibus,” 108
“Galleys” and “ships,” 138
Gallic ship, 88
Gama, Vasco da, 51, 184
Gauckler, M. P., 84
Geestemünde, 275
Genoa, ships of, 170
George III. and yachting, 322
German Emperor’s Cup, 330
German Ocean, 282
German, St., 137
German yacht designers, 331
Germanic craft, 102
Germanicus, ships built by, 108
Germans as sailing-men, 274
Giorgione, 130
Glasgow, ancient canoes found near, 101;
ship built at, 274
Glass, stained, pictures of ships, 130
Gloppen Viking ship, 117
Gloucester, Massachusetts, 293
Gloucester, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of, seal of, 166
Gnomon, 71
Godredus Crovan, 138
Gogstad Viking ship, 117-121;
replica of, crosses Atlantic, 119
Gold rushes and shipping, 268
Gondola, the, 16
Goodwins, the, 319
Gosport, 326
Grapnel, the, 154
Gravesend, 321
Greece, ancient ships of, 55-72;
Phœnician influence, 47, 55;
materials of ships, 62;
galleys, 9;
naval warfare, 64;
navigation, 71
Green, Mr. Richard, 267
Green, Messrs., of Blackwall, 267, 271, 272
Greenock, 267, 326
Greenwich Naval Museum, models in, 5, 255, 256, 257, 260
Greenwich Royal Observatory founded, 235
Greenwich, yacht race in 1661, 321
Guns and gunpowder, 158
Guns, placing of, 168, 173, 253
“Gunwale,” origin of, 168
Gustafson, Professor Gabriel, and the Gogstad Viking ship, 118;
Oseberg Viking ship, 121
Guy, Captain, 239
Hakluyt, Richard, 3, 49, 132, 138, 140, 141, 147, 148, 149, 152, 191,
192, 202, 211
Hakluyt Society’s stamp, 236
Hall, Mr. H. R., 22
Hamble (or Hamill), 174, 179
Hamburg, 274
Hanseatic League, 159;
wane of, 191;
English ships purchased from, 190
Harold, ships of, 134
Harrow, seal at, 167
Harwich, 290
Hastings, seal of, 152
Havre, 266
Hawkins, Sir John, 193, 245
Hawse, 178
Hemp, Russian, &c., 234
Hemy, Napier, 5
Henry I. and maritime industry, 138
Henry II., progress of shipping under, 138;
crusade of, 153
Henry III., ships under, 148;
and Norwegian merchants, 145
Henry IV., ships under, 159
Henry V., ships of, 160;
and Genoese ships, 172;
increase of navy, 173
Henry VI., shipbuilding in reign of, 161
Henry VII., ships of, 173
Henry VIII., ships of, 185-191, 204
Heyward, Edward, 241, 242
Hiring ships, 177
Holbein’s “Embarkation of Henry VIII.,” 185
Holland. _See_ Dutch
Holland, English merchants of, seal of, 167
Holyhead, 321
House of Lords tapestries, 207, 208
“Hovelling,” 319
Howard of Effingham, Lord, 200, 201, 207
Howard, Sir Philip, 78, 245
Hoyle, Dr., Manchester Museum, 4
Hubert of Borough, 148
Hudson River, 295
Huguenots, the, 209
Hull, 159
Huntingdon, John Holland, Earl of, seal of, 166
India, 272. _See also_ East India Company
Ipswich, manufacture of sail-cloth at, 209
Iron in shipbuilding, 259, 268
Ironworks, _temp._ Charles I., 234
James I., ships of, 222-228;
and English piracy, 222
Jesup Expedition, the, 32, 104
Jochelson, Mr., and Koryak boat, 104
John, King, and the Navy, 148
Keels, 134;
sliding, 255
Kempenfelt, Admiral, 250
Kent, men of, 133
Khorsabad, Palace of, 51
Kiel Museum, boat in, 95
King’s Cup, 331
Kinyras, King of Cyprus, and terra-cotta “fleet,” 69
Kipling, Mr. Rudyard, 12, 294
Knights of Malta, 216
Koryak boats, 32, 104
La Rochelle, seal of, 167
Labour-saving on American schooners, 297
Lancaster, Sir James, and scurvy, 197
Langton, Archbishop, 148
Lapthorn & Ratsey, 326
Latchetes, 178
Lateen sail, 14, 175, 282, 309
Lateran Museum, 43
Layard, Sir Austin, 51
Lead ballast, 324
Lead-covered keels, 192
Lead-line, the, 79
Lead sheathing, 245, 276
Lepanto, battle of, 221
Leslie, Mr. Robert C., 265
Lifeboat, the, 255
Lipton, Sir Thomas, 333
Liverpool, 273
Loch Arthur, Dumfries, ancient boat in, 100
London as port, 138
London Bridge, Dutch schuyts at, 303
Longships, 61
Louis XIV. and the French navy, 236, 249
Louvre, the, 6
Lowestoft, 304, 307, 315
Lowestoft “drifters,” 13
Lug-sail, 312
Lynn, Norfolk, 156, 158
McCunn, Mr. James, 271
Macham’s voyage to Madeira, 158
Mackie & Thomson, Messrs., 274
McMillan, A., & Son, Messrs., 274
Madeira, Island of, 158
Magnet, the, 154
Mainsail, 285
Maldon, 328
Malta, Knights of, 216
Maltese galley, 216
Man, Isle of, 138
Manchester Museum, Egyptian boat in, 3, 33
Manuscripts, pictures of ships on, 129
Manwayring, Sir Henry, 198, 203, 205, 224, 303
Maritime laws under Richard I., 147
Mark, St., mosaic of, 144
Marlin spikes, 179
Marquez, Pero Menendez, 214
Marseilles, 113
Mary, Queen, fishing, &c., traffic in reign of, 193
Mason, Mr. Frank H., models by, 152, 181
Maspero, Professor, 41
Mass, dry, 190
Masts, 172, 242, 243, 274
Mediterranean craft, 56, 139;
galley, 16;
galley and North Sea ship, 91;
warship of thirteenth century, 142
Memling, pictures by, 4, 130, 163
Mercantile marine, progress of the, 257
Mercator’s chart, 193
Merchant ships, Egyptian, 85;
Greek, 61, 85;
Roman, 81;
Anglo-Saxon, 133;
Elizabethan, 201;
Mediterranean, 172
Merchantman and man-of-war, similarity of, in Stuart times, 227
Metallic age, the, and shipbuilding, 105
Middleton, Commissioner, 239
Milesian sea-traders, 48, 55
Mizzen mast, 172
Monson, Sir William, 197
Moore, Henry, 5
Moresby, Admiral, 263, 264
Motors as aids to sailing ships, 2, 277
Museums, models of ships in, 5
Nails, bronze, 276
Napoleon III’s trireme, 70
National Gallery pictures, 259, 284, 285, 323
“Nautical Almanac,” founded, 235
Naval architecture, scientific study of, 243;
progress in seventeenth century, 246;
in nineteenth century, 257
Naval expeditions of the crusades, 146
Naval officers and navigation, 264
Naval warfare, Greek, 64
Navigating methods of the Vikings, 126
Navigation, ancient Greek, 71
Navigation laws, Queen Elizabeth, 193
Naville, Dr. Edouard, 41
Navy Board and sheathing, 245;
rating, 249
Neco (Egyptian king), 49
Nelson, Lord, 251;
his signal, 251;
painting of his ships, 255
Nemi, Lake of, Roman ships in, 76
Nettings, 209
New York, 266, 267, 293, 296
New York Yacht Club, 325
New Zealand, 272
Newcastle hoys, 235
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 159, 258
Newfoundland fisheries, 202, 258, 294
Nicholas de Sigillo, 146
Nicholas of Lynn, 158
Nicholas, St., patron saint of sailors, 3, 129, 136, 161
Nicholson, Mr. C. E., 332
“Nor,” the prefix, 112
Norfolk wherries, 13, 34, 112;
yawls, 315
Norman ships, 134-138
Norris, Admiral Sir John, 186
Norsemen, the, 109-127, 131. _See also_ Vikings
North Pole, Dutch voyage to, 283
North-East Passage, search for, 191, 219
North-West Passage, 291
Norwegian merchants, 145
Norwegian yawl, 13
Norwich, 307
Nottingham, Earl of. _See_ Howard of Effingham
“Nugger,” Egyptian, 43
Nydam, Viking ship discovered at, 115
Oak, English, scarcity of, 268
Octher, voyage of, 132
Oleron, laws of, 147
Oppenheim, Mr., 175, 176, 178, 179, 233
Orwell, the, 302
Oseberg Viking ship, 121
Outriggers, 179
Paddle _v._ screw test, 263
Paddle-wheel steamers, 263
“Painters,” 178
Painting ships, 176;
of men-of-war, 255
Pallion, 271
Panama Canal, 277
Paris, Admiral, 310
Paris, seal of, 141
Paul, St., voyages of, 15, 79, 314
Pavisses, 179, 209
Penn, Sir William, 238
Penzance luggers, 318
Pepys, Samuel, 18, 187, 237-240;
“Register,” 246
Personality of ships, 12
Petrie, Professor Flinders, discovers model Egyptian boat, 3, 27, 33
Pett, Christopher, 321
Pett, Phineas, and family, 227, 229, 236, 246
Pharos, tower of, 71
Phœnician ships, 46-55
Phœnicians, the, influence of the Egyptians, 47;
as traders, 47;
as sailors, 48;
as explorers, 49;
and the North Sea ships, 92;
on the Baltic, 112
Pictures of ships, 5
Pilots, laws for, _temp._ Richard I., 147
Pin Mill, 302
Pine’s, John, engravings of House of Lords tapestries, 207
Pipe Rolls, 146
Piracy, _temp._ ancient Greece, 68, 85;
North Sea, _temp._ Henry IV., 159;
English, _temp._ Elizabeth, 222;
Algerian, 233
“Plimsoll” marks, early, 215
Pliny, the elder, 102
Plymouth hooker, 291
Pompei, tomb at, 60
Poole, 326;
seal of, 156
Poop, the, 16, 181
Portholes, 173
Portsmouth, 138, 209, 241, 245, 321
Portsmouth Dockyard, founded, 179
Portugal, maritime progress in sixteenth century, 180
Portuguese fishing boats, eyes on, 65
Potter, Messrs. W. H. & Co., 273
Prussia, 159
Pytheas’s _gnomon_, 71
“Quant,” 67
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 194, 197
Rams, Greek, 58, 63;
galleons, 213
Ramsgate, 303, 304
Rating rules, yachts, 332
Ratings, 237, 249
Red ensign, 254
Reefing gear, 276. _See also_ Brails
Reefing in Elizabethan times, 195
Revenue cutters, 323
Richard I. in the Mediterranean, 17;
his navy, 138, 141, 146, 147
Richard II., reign of, 159
Richard III., shipping in reign of, 161
Rifeh, Egypt, early boat found at, 3, 27, 33
Rigging, ancient Egyptian, 11, 29, 38;
ancient Greek, 59;
_Ark Royal_, 198;
brigs, 300;
caravel of sixteenth century, 181;
Columbus’s ship, 182;
corvettes, 252;
development and progress, 81, 275-277;
East Indiamen, 264-265;
eighteenth century, 247-248;
Elizabethan, 210;
fore-and-aft, 220, 244, 281-334;
four-masted barques, 273, 274;
_Henri Grâce à Dieu_, 186;
lateen, 14;
Mediterranean warship, 143;
Phœnician, 48;
Roman, 74;
_Royal Charles_, 241;
ship of British Navy of 1815 (details), 278-279;
ship painted by Gentile da Fabriano, 161;
sloop, 220;
Spanish galleon, 213;
Spanish treasure-frigate, 214;
squaresail, 11;
three-decker, 230;
Victorian, early, 260-262, (model) 1;
warship of Henry VII., 174. _See also_ Ships (types)
Rock carvings, Scandinavian, 110
Roman galleys, 9;
ships, 73-88, 106
Ropes, ancient Greek, 67
Roses, the Wars of the, 161, 173, 180
Rother, the, Kent, ancient boat found, 100
Rouen, 166
Roundships, 61
Royal ships hired to merchants, 177
Royal United Service Museum, models, &c., in, 5, 181, 216, 235, 243,
250
Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 325
Royal Yacht Squadron, 324
Royals, 230
Rudder-bands, 80
Rudders, 144, 150, 156
Ruisdael (artist), 5
Rutherglen, seal of, 167
Rye, seal of, 167
Sagas, the, 89
Sail-making, 326
Sailcloth manufacture, 209
Sailing power, revival of, 277
Sailors under King John, 148;
_temp._ Queen Elizabeth, 197;
_temp._ James I., 225;
present-day “sailors,” 2
Sails, of the _Ark Royal_, 200;
colours of, 67;
cutting, 201;
decorated, 83, 209;
development of, 276, 284;
scientific treatment of, 243;
Viking sails, 122, 123, 124
St. Andrew’s flag, 241
St. George’s flag, 241, 242
San Francisco, 267, 291
San Sebastian, Spain, seal of, 156
Sandefjord, 272
Sandwich, seal of, 141, 149
Saracen ship and Crusaders, 140
Saxons, vessels of the, 109
Scandinavian coin, ship on, 133
Scandinavian rigs, 12
Scandinavians. _See_ Norsemen
Scarborough Bay, 317
Schank, Admiral, 255
Schooner, origin of the name, 293
Scotch fishing boat, Norwegian influence on, 317
Scott, Messrs., 267, 268
Screw propeller, 257
Screw steamer, advent of, 263
Sea, the call of the, 19
Sea-terms in Elizabethan English, 210
Seals, mediæval, ships on, 128
Seamanship, early European, 137;
“marlin-spike seamanship,” 275
Sennacherib, palace of, 51
Seppings, Sir Robert, 257, 259
Shakespeare, sea-terms used by, 210
Sheathing, 245, 250, 251, 276
Sheer, 277
Sheerness, 237, 245, 277
Shetland Isles boats, 13
Shields, 179
Shields, North and South, 258
Shipbuilding, origins of, 90, 94;
Norse, 125;
Norman, 135;
_temp._ Queen Elizabeth, 193;
progress of, 218;
in England in 1841-47, 266
Shipbuilding terms, ancient, still extant, 103
Ships, cost of building, seventeenth century, 246
Ships, history:
Sources for history, 3-4
Reconstruction and development, 6-8
Primitive man, 23
Early Egyptian, 20-45
Phœnician, 46-55
Greek, 55-72
Roman, 73-88, 106
Northern Europe, 89-127
Mediæval, eighth century to 1485, 128-169
Anglo-Saxon, 131-133
Norman, 134-138
Henry VII. to Elizabeth (1485-1603), 170-222
Spain and Portugal, 180
James I. to eighteenth century, 222-253
Nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 254-280
Ships, named:
_Alarm_, 251, 324, 325
_Alecto_, 263
_Alexandria_, 323
_Aline_, 326
_Alnwick Castle_, 271
_America_, 293, 324, 325
_Ann Gallant_, 190
_Anne_, 321
_Ariel_, 270
_Ark Royal_, _Ark Raleigh_, or _Anne Royal_, 194, 197-201, 226, 228
_Arrow_, 323, 324, 325
_Ascension_, 221
_Atlantic_, 327
_Bear_, 228
_Bellerophon_, 176
_Bezan_, 321
_Black Adder_, 270
_Bloodhound_, 327
_Bona Confidentia_, 192
_Bona Esperanza_, 192
_Bonaventure_, 245
_Britannia_, 329, 330
_Buss of Zeland_, 160
_Busship_, 160
_Caledonia_, 255
_Challenge_, 267, 269
_Challenger_, 267
_Charles_, 246
_Christopher Spayne_, 160
_Chrysolite_, 269
_Cogge_, 159
_Columbia_, 331
_Columbia II._, 50
_Commerce de Marseilles_, 252, 255
_Constant Warwick_, 232
_Constitution_, 331
_Cordelière_, 173, 179, 184, 188
_Cutty Sark_, 270
_Cymba_, 326
_Cynthia_, 256
_Defender_, 331
_Desdemona_, 272
_Dogger_, 160
_Doggership_, 160
_Dreadnought_, 16, 176;
(Charles II.), 245
_Dunkerque_, 273
_Edward Bonaventure_, 192
_Egeria_, 326
_Elizabeth_, 331, 332
_Fantôme_, 299
_Fiery Cross_, 270
_Florencia_, 212
_Flying Cloud_, 266, 270
_Fortuna_, 272
_France_, 273
_Fredonia_, 295
_Friday_, 159
_Gainsborough_, 233
_Germania_, 331
_Gjöa_, 291
_Godezere_, 159
_Golden Lion_, 240
_Governor_, 174
_Grâce à Dieu_, 174, 177, 178, 179
_Grand Louise_, 184
_Great Republic_, 267
_Harry Grâce à Dieu_, 177
_Hawkin Derlin of Dantzik_, 159
_Hector_, 221
_Helena_, 160
_Henri Grâce à Dieu_, 185, 186, 196
_Henrietta_, 245
_Holigost_, 160
_Hotspur_, 271
_Isabel_, 160
_Isle of Wight_, 321
_James_, 246
_James of London_, 185
_Jemmy_, 321
_Jesus_, 160
_Jesus of Lubeck_, 187, 197
_Jullanar_, 305, 328
_Katherine_, 321
_Katherine Pomegranate_, 185
_Kestrel_, 323
_Keying_, 311, 312
_La Blanche Nef_, 138
_La Félipe_, 156
_Las Cinque Llagas_, 216
_Leicester_, 204, 211
_L’Esperance_, 327
_Liverpool_, 273
_Lord of the Isles_, 268
_Louisa_, 324
_Lulworth_, 324
_Macquarie_, 272
_Madre de Dios_, 215
_Mahratta_, 319
_Margaret_, 159
_Marie Rose_, 195
_Martin_, 299
_Martin Garsia_, 174
_Mary_, 289, 321
_Mary Fortune_, 177
_Mary of the Tower_, 174
_Mary Rose_, 185
_Mauretania_, 75, 189, 274
_Merchant Royal_, 204, 211
_Merhonour_, 228
_Meteor_, 331
_Michael of Yarmouth_, 159
_Minion_, 321
_Mora_, 137
_Murrian_, 187, 188
_Newcastle_, 258
_Nicholas_, 160
_Nina_, 180, 183
_Northampton_, 271
_Nyria_, 333
_Oimara_, 326
_Olive Bank_, 273
_Pampas_, 331
_Peter_, 160
_Peter of Wiveton_, 160
_Peter Pomegranate_, 185
_Phœnix_, 245
_Pinkie_, 294
_Pinta_, 180, 183
_Potosi_, 274
_Preussen_, 275
_Prince Royal_, 197, 227, 228, 229, 230, 242
_Prince, The_, 240, 242
_Queen_, 260, 261, 262
_Queen Margaret_, 274
_Rattler_, 263
_Red Dragon_, 221
_Regent_, 174, 180, 184
_Reliance_, 331
_Resolution_, 242, 244
_Royal Charles_, 240, 241
_Royal Frederick_, 260
_Royal George_, 10, 195, 250, 251, 322
_Royal Louis_, 239, 243
_Royal Prince_, 242
_Royal Sovereign_, 229
_Royal Sovereign_ (yacht), 322
_Rupert_, 244
_Sans Pareil_, 257
_Santa Maria_, 53, 176, 180, 181, 183;
modern replica, 180;
model, 182
_Sappho_, 326
_Satanita_, 329
_Scomberg_, 270
_Sea Witch_, 269
_Serica_, 270
_Shamrock_, 10, 282
_Shamrock III._, 331, 332
_Shamrock IV._, 333
_Shipper Berline of Prussia_, 159
_Sir Lancelot_, 270, 271
_Soll Royal_ (_Le Soleil Royal_), 239, 243
_Sovereign_, 175, 179, 180, 184, 185, 242
_Sovereign of the Seas_, 7, 229, 230, 267
_Stonehouse_, 271
_Struse of Dawske_, 187, 188
_Sunbeam_, 297, 327, 330
_Susan_, 221
_Sweepstake_, 177
_Taeping_, 270
_Taitsing_, 270
_Tartarus_, 263
_Terrible_, 250
_Thermopylæ_, 270, 271
_Thistle_, 328
_Thomas W. Lawson_, 296
_Thyatera_, 270
_Tiger_, 190
_Tillikum_, 302
_Trade’s Increase_, 226
_Trinitie_, 159
_Trinity of Wight_, 185
_Trinity Royal_, 160
_Triumph_, 197, 204
_Valhalla_, 327, 330
_Valkyrie_, 330
_Valkyrie I._, 330
_Vanguard_, 201
_Vernon_, 260
_Victoria and Albert_, 322
_Victory_ (Elizabethan), 242
_Victory_ (Nelson’s), 140, 251, 262
_Whang-Ho_, 312
_White Elephant, The_, 240
_White Heather II._, 10, 332
_Xarifa_, 324
Ships, naming of, 125
Ships, sizes, Phœnician, 54;
Roman, 75, 81
Ships, types:
Reconstruction of former types, 6
Actuaria, 86, 107
American clippers, 266
American frigates, 256
American schooner, 296
Ballingers, 160
Barges, 145, 154, 160, 305, 306
Barks, or barques, 139, 208, 272, 273, 300, 301
Barquentine, 298
Bastard galleasses, 206
Bawley, 290
Billy-boy, 303
Bireme, 48
Bomb ketch, 235, 249, 302
Bombay yacht, 309
Brigantine, 208, 300
Brigs, 249, 258, 299, 300
British clippers, 267
Brixham Mumble Bees, 291
Bucca, buss, or buzzo, 124, 139, 145
Burmese junk, 31
Caracks, 139, 140, 160, 170, 173, 215
Caravels, 139, 171, 180
Carra-muzzal, 218
Carvel-built, 166, 190
Catascopiscus, 86
Chasse-Marée, 314
Chinese junk, 31
Cladivata, 88
Clippers, 256, 267
Coasters, 258, 277
Cogs, 145
Collier, steam, 258
Coracle, 103
Corbita, 86
Cornish lugger, 317
Corvettes, 252
Crayers, 185
Cutters, 289
Deal “galley,” 131
Deal luggers, 318
Dhow, 44
Dragon, 124
Dromons, 139, 143
Dug-out, 25, 90, 95
Dutch fly-boat, 294
Dutch galleon, 219
Dutch schuyt, 220, 285
East Indiamen, 258, 264
Egyptian “nugger,” 43
Esnecca, 124, 133, 146
Felucca, 309
Fore-and-aft schooner, 277
Frigate, 205, 208, 232, 252
Galleasses, 69, 204, 205, 206, 212
Galleons, 203, 205, 206, 213, 219
Galleys, 57, 139, 216, 246
Galleys as war-vessels, 171, 204, 206
Galliots, 204, 208, 303
Gloucester schooner, 294
Great ships, 139, 204
Gun-brigs, 249
Hailam junk, 310
Hermaphrodite brig, 300
Hippago, 85, 145
Hoys, 235
Iron barque, 272
Iron ships, 259, 268
Italian merchantman, 206
Jackass barque, 301
Junks, 31, 310
Ketch, 235, 302
Koryak craft, 32
Large sailing ship, 254
Lifeboat, 255
Long serpent, 124, 133, 146
Longship, 124
Lowestoft drifter, 304
Luggers, 312 _et seq._
Merchant vessels, 172, 205, 206
Monoxylon, 95
Motor barges, 280
Motor-propelled ships, 291
Musculus, or mydion, 85
Nave, 218
Norfolk wherry, 307
Paddle-sloop, 263
Paddle-steamers, 263
Paro, 85
Penzance lugger, 318
Pink, 236
Pinnace, 205, 208, 229
Plymouth hooker, 291
Ponto, 87
Portuguese carack, 215
Prosumia, 87
Quadrireme, 65
Schedia, 85
Schooners, 277, 292 _et seq._
Schuyt, Dutch, 220, 285
Scotch “Zulus,” 317
Screw ship, 263
Shallops, 208
Sibbick rater, 309
Skin boats, 102-105
Skuta, 120, 124
Sloops, 220, 249, 292
Snekkja, 124, 133, 146
Spanish treasure-frigates, 214
Square-rigged, 192
Steam collier, 258
“Stumpies,” 305
Tartana, 218
Tesseraria, 85
Thames barge, 305
Three-decker, 227, 229
Topsail schooner, 298
Trireme, 48, 69
Victualling ships, 185
Viking, or double-ended, 90, 106
Viking-like, 171
Visser, 145
Warships, Tudor, 178, 188, 203
Wherry, Norfolk, 307
Yachts, 289, 320 _et seq._
Yarmouth yawl, 315
Yawls, 314
Yorkshire cobble, 60
“Zulus,” 317
Shotover, 234
Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 247
Sidon, coins of, 52
Signals, code of, 188, 249
Sigurdson, Harald, 122
Skins for boats, 102-105
Sluys, battle of, 157
Smith’s, Captain John, description of taking a prize, 223-225
Smyth, Mr. Warington, 307, 310
Snape, Suffolk, Viking ship discovered at, 115
Soames & Co., Messrs., 271
Solent, the, 322
Somerscales, Mr. T., 5
South Kensington Museum, models in, 5, 181, 216, 241, 271, 299, 309,
311, 328
Southampton Water, 174
Southend, 290
Spanish Armada. _See_ Armada
Spanish maritime progress, sixteenth century, 180
Spanish seamen, time of Armada, 204
Spanish treasure-frigates, 214
Spars, interchangeable, 260
Speiring’s, Francis, tapestries of Spanish Armada, 207
Spithead, 250
Spritsail, 265, 283
Squaresail, 11, 244, 281
Stanfield, Clarkson, 5
Staysail, 283
Steamships, supersede sailing vessels, 2, 272;
introduction into the Navy, 263
Steele & Co., Messrs., Greenock, 267, 271, 326
Steele, Mr. William, 326
Steering paddles, 146
Sterns, 12, 16, 244, 289;
“canoe,” 276;
circular, 257;
overhanging, 329
Stone age, the, and shipbuilding, 94, 99
Stone implements in modern use, 99
Stow Wood, 234
Stuart, Mr. Villiers, 33
Suez Canal, 272
Suiones, the, 110
Summercastle, 175
Sunderland, 266
Sydney, Sir Philip, 209
Symonds, Sir William, 259, 299
Tacitus, 108, 109
Tacking, the ancients and, 44
Tallow for bottoms of ships, 232
Tapestries, ships on, 130;
Bayeux Tapestry, 17, 134;
Spanish Armada, House of Lords, 207
Tea trade, the China, 268
Teak, 257
Tecklenborg, Messrs. J. C., 275
Telescopes, 193
Terry’s, Captain C. E., model of the _Santa Maria_, 182
Thompson, Messrs. J., & Co., 267, 271
Timbers, diagonal, 257
Tonnage measurement, 231
Topgallant sail, 175
Topmasts, 173, 195
Topsails, 83, 284
Trading vessels. _See_ Merchant ships
Trafalgar, 254, 262;
mistake in signals, 252
Trinity House Corporation, 193;
pictures, 227
Tromp, Admiral van, 285
Trondhjem Fjord, ships found on shores of, 114
Trumpeting on ancient ships, 149
Tudor colours, the, 191
Tudor period, development of ships during the, 221
Tuke, Mr. H. S., 5
“Tumblehome,” 168, 244
Tune Viking ship, 117
Tunis, excavations near, 84
Turkish pirates, vessels of, 218
Turner, J. M. W., R.A., pictures by, 5, 259, 285, 289, 300, 323
Tyre and Sidon, kings of, 49
Union flag, the, 241, 242
Union Jack, the, 254
United Service Museum. _See_ Royal United Service Museum
United States coasting trade, 296
Ursula, St., the pilgrimage of, 4, 162
Valdermoor Marsh, Schleswig-Holstein, boat found at, 95
Vasco da Gama, 51, 184
Velde, Willem Van der, 5, 229, 285, 287, 289
Velleius Paterculus, 102
Veneti, ships of the, 90, 93, 105, 106
Venetian warship (thirteenth century), 142
Venetians, English ships purchased from, 190
Venice, St. Mark’s, mosaics in, 130, 144
Venice, ships of, 153, 170
Victoria and Albert Museum. _See_ South Kensington Museum
Victoria, Queen, 260
Viking ships, 10, 13, 14, 90, 110;
arrangements of, 122, 125, 127;
sails, 122-124;
steering, 156;
navigation, 126;
the Phœnicians and, 92;
connection between and the Mediterranean galleys, 91;
discovery of remains of ships, 115-122
Vikings, the, influence of on ships, 156, 285;
harass England and France, 130;
burial in ship-shape graves, 113-115
Virginia, 246
Voss, Captain J. C., 302
Vroom, Hendrik C., pictures by, 207, 220
Wanhill, Thomas, of Poole, 324, 326
War-galleys, Greek, 60
Warships and warfare, Norse, 124-125
Watson, Mr. G. L., 328
Waymouth, Mr., 271
West Countrymen, _temp._ Elizabeth, 202
West Indiaman, 259
West Indies, 214, 258, 259
Whale-boats, 14
Whitby, 303
White Brothers, Messrs., 331
White Ensign, the, 254, 255
White, Mr. H. W., 331
Whitstable, 290
William the Conqueror, 17, 134
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 191
Wilton, Earl of, 324
Winchelsea, seal of, 149
Winches, 179
Winchester Cathedral, font, 129, 136
Wool trade, Flemish, 154
Woolwich, 227, 246, 250, 321
Wyllie, Mr. W. L., R.A., 5
Wynter, Sir William, 201
Xerxes, 48, 56
Yacht, first, in England, 289;
modification of yacht design, 328;
sterns of Dutch yachts, 243;
the word “yacht,” 320
Yachting, 244, 321 _et seq._;
international yachting rules, 332
Yarborough, Earl of, 323
Yards, 181
Yarmouth, 129, 304, 307, 315
Yonkers, 225
York Museum, ancient boat in, 100
Yorkshire cobble, 60
Zarebas, 22
Zuyder Zee, 282
PLANS
[Illustration: PLAN 1. THE _GJOA_: SAIL AND RIGGING PLAN.]
[Illustration: PLAN 2. THE _GJOA_: LONGITUDINAL SECTION.]
[Illustration: PLAN 3. THE _GJOA_: DECK PLAN.]
[Illustration: PLAN 4. THE _ROYAL SOVEREIGN_, GEORGE III’S YACHT.]
[Illustration: PLAN 5. SCHOONER _ELIZABETH_: SAIL PLAN.]
[Illustration: PLAN 6. SCHOONER _ELIZABETH_: DECK PLAN.]
[Illustration: PLAN 7. SCHOONER _ELIZABETH_: LONGITUDINAL SECTION.]
[Illustration: PLAN 8. SCHOONER _PAMPAS_: SAIL AND RIGGING PLAN.]
[Illustration: PLAN 9. SCHOONER _PAMPAS_: LONGITUDINAL AND HORIZONTAL
SECTIONS.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] “Gizeh and Rifeh,” by W. M. Flinders Petrie, London, 1907.
(Double volume.)
[2] “A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms, British Museum,”
London, 1904.
[3] “The Jesup North Pacific Expedition,” vol. vi. part ii., “The
Koryak”; see pp. 534-538. By W. Jochelson, New York, 1908.
[4] See “The Egypt Exploration Fund: Archæological Report, 1906-1907.”
[5] “The Tomb of Hatshopsitu,” p. 30, by Edouard Naville, London,
1906.
[6] “Egypt Exploration Fund: The Temple of Deir-el-Bahari,” by
Edouard Naville.
[7] “The Fleet of an Egyptian Queen,” by Dr. Johannes Duemichen.
Leipzig, 1868.
[8] “Egypt Exploration Fund: The Temple of Deir-el-Bahari,” p. 16.
[9] “The Dawn of Civilisation—Egypt,” by Professor Maspero, London,
1894.
[10] For some valuable matter regarding Greek and Roman ships I wish
to acknowledge my indebtedness to the following, especially the first
two of these:
“Ancient Ships,” by Cecil Torr, Cambridge, 1894.
“Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romanes,” by Ch. Daremberg
(article under “Navis,” by Cecil Torr), Paris, 1905.
“A Companion to Greek Studies,” by L. Whibley, Cambridge, 1905. (See
article on “Ships,” by A. B. Cook, p. 475 _et seq._)
[11] “The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries
of the English Nation,” by Richard Hakluyt. Preface to the second
edition.
[12] Even still more wonderful and more to the point, as having
sailed to the entrance of the Mediterranean, is the passage of the
_Columbia II._, a tiny ship only 19 feet long with 6 feet beam.
Navigated solely by Capt. Eisenbram, she sailed from Boston, U.S.A.,
to Gibraltar, encountering severe weather on the way, in 100 days.
(See the _Times_ newspaper of November 21, 1903.)
[13] An illustration of this will be found in “Pompeji in Leben und
Kunst,” by August Mau, Leipzig, 1908.
[14] A model of this ship is to be seen in the Louvre. See “Musée
Rétrospectif de la Classe 33. Matériel de la Navigation de Commerce à
l’Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, à Paris. Rapport du
Comité d’Installation.”
[15] “Ancient Ships,” by Cecil Torr, Cambridge, 1894.
[16] “Lazari Bayfii annotationes ... de re navali.” Paris, 1536.
[17] See “Caligula’s Galleys in the Lake of Nemi,” by St. Clair
Baddeley, article in the _Nineteenth Century and After_, March,
1909; also “Le Navi Romane del Lago di Nemi,” by V. Malfatti, Rome,
1905, which gives an interesting account, with illustrations, of
the finding of these galleys, as well as an excellent plan of one
of the ships of Caligula as far as she has been explored. She has a
rounded stern and pointed bow. An ingenious pictorial effort is made
to reconstruct the galley afresh. The book contains photographs of
the floats, showing the shape of the boat, and of some of the chief
relics recovered in 1895.
[18] “Life of Caligula,” xxxvii.
[19] See p. 245.
[20] Acts xxvii.
[21] “Un Catalogue Figuré de la Batellerie Gréco-Romaine—La Mosaïque
d’Althiburus,” par P. Gauckler, in “Monuments et Mémoires.” Tome
douzième, Paris, 1905.
[22] “De Bello Civili,” iii. 29.
[23] Sagas—or “says,” narratives—are records of the leading events
of the lives of great Norsemen and their families. Hundreds of
these records exist, though many of them are purely mythical. They
date from a period not earlier than the sixth century of our era,
but the downward limit cannot be exactly fixed. Not unnaturally,
in such national epics as centre round the kings of Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, we find references to sailing ships both frequent and
detailed.
[24] “This northern civilisation,” says Du Chaillu, in his account
of these people (“The Viking Age,” vol. i. p. 4, London, 1889) “was
peculiar to itself, having nothing in common with the Roman world,
Rome knew nothing of these people till they began to frequent the
coasts of her North Sea provinces, in the days of Tacitus, and after
his time, the Mediterranean.... The manly civilisation the Northmen
possessed was their own ... it seems to have advanced north from
about the shores of the Black Sea, and ... many northern customs were
like those of the ancient Greeks.”
[25] Cæsar, “De Bello Gallico,” iii. chap. 13: “Pro loci natura, pro
vi tempestatum, illis essent aptiora et accommodatoria.”
[26] “Notes on Shipbuilding and Nautical Terms of Old in the North,”
a paper read before the Viking Society for Northern Research by
Eiríkr Magnússon. London, 1906.
[27] It was presented to the Hull Museum while this book was in the
press, June 1909.
[28] “A Prehistoric Boat,” a lecture by Rev. D. Cary-Elwes.
Northampton, 1903.
[29] Tacitus, “Hist.” v. 23.
[30] “Annual Report of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution:
Prehistoric Naval Architecture of the North of Europe,” by George H.
Boehmer. Washington, 1892. (See p. 527.)
[31] Cæsar, “De Bello Civili,” book i. chap. 54: “Imperat militibus
Cæsar, ut naves faciant, cujus generis eum superioribus annis usus
Britanniæ docuerat. Carinæ primum ac statumina ex levi materia
fiebant: reliquum corpus navium viminibus contextum, coriis
integebatur.”
[32] Cæsar, “De Bello Gallico,” III. xiii.: “Namque ipsorum naves
ad hunc modum factæ armatæque erant: carinæ aliquanto planiores
quam nostrarum navium, quo facilius vada ac decessum æstus excipere
possent: proræ admodum erectæ atque item puppes ad magnitudinem
fluctuum tempestatumque accommodatæ; naves totæ factæ ex robore
ad quamvis vim et contumeliam perferendam: transtra pedalibus
in altitudinem trabibus confixa clavis ferreis digiti pollicis
crassitudine; ancoræ pro funibus ferreis catenis revinctæ; pelles pro
velis alutæque tenuiter confectæ, [hæc] sive propter lini inopiam
atque ejus usus inscientiam, sive eo, quod est magis verisimile, quod
tantas tempestates Oceani tantosque impetus ventorum sustineri ac
tanta onera navium regi velis non satis commode posse arbitrabantur.”
Mr. St. George Stock in his edition (Cæsar, “De Bello Gallico,”
books i.-vii., edited by St. George Stock, Oxford, 1898) understands
“transtra” not to mean the rowing benches but crossbeams or decks.
[33] The Veneti lived in the extreme north-west corner of France,
and have left behind the name of the town Vannes, facing the Bay of
Biscay, and opposite Belle Isle.
The Greeks and Romans having learned their seamanship on the
practically tideless waters of the Mediterranean must have been
appalled by the ebb and flow of the Northern Seas. Cæsar was ignorant
of the moon’s relation to tides until taught by bitter experience.
He was taught only by the damage done to his ships in Britain. (“De
Bello Gallico,” iv. 29). The Veneti, however, understood all these
things, for Cæsar remarks, “quod et naves habent Veneti plurimas,
quibus in Britanniam navigare consuerunt, et scientia atque usu
nauticarum rerum reliquos antecedunt.” Further on he refers to the
Bay of Biscay as the great, boisterous, open sea, “in magno impetu
maris atque aperto.” (“De Bello Gallico,” book iii. chap. 8). It is
to Pytheas (referred to previously) that Plutarch gives the credit of
having detected the influence of the moon on tides.
The reader wishing to pursue the subject is referred to “Cæsar’s
Conquest of Gaul,” by T. Rice Holmes. London, 1899.
[34] Tacitus’ “Annals,” ii. 23 and 6. “Mille naves sufficere visæ
properatæque, aliæ breves, angusta puppi proraque et lato utero,
quo facilius fluctus tolerarent, quædam planæ carinis ut sine noxa
siderent: plures adpositis utrimque gubernaculis, converso ut repente
remigio hinc vel illinc adpellerent: multæ pontibus stratæ, super
quas tormenta veherentur ... velis habiles, citæ remis augebantur
alacritate militum in speciem ac terrorem” (ii. 6).
Mr. Henry Furneaux in his edition of the “Annals” (Oxford 1896),
commenting on “pontibus,” thinks these formed a partial deck across
the midships which would have the appearance of a bridge when viewed
from bow or stern.
[35] Roman ships were sometimes built in 60 days, while there is a
record of 220 having been built in 45 days.
[36] Du Chaillu points out the interesting fact that it was not until
after the Danes and Norwegians had succeeded in planting themselves
in this country that the inhabitants of our land exhibited that
love of the sea and ships which has been our greatest national
characteristic for so many centuries. Certainly when the Romans
invaded Britain our forefathers had no fleet with which to oppose
them.
[37] Tacitus, “De situ, moribus et populis Germaniæ libellus,” chap.
44: “Suionum hinc civitates, ipsæ in Oceano, præter viros armaque
classibus valent. Forma navium eo differt quod utrinque prora paratam
semper appulsui frontem agit: nec velis ministrantur, nec remos in
ordinem lateribus adjungunt: solutum, ut in quibusdam fluminum, et
mutabile, ut res poscit, hinc vel illinc remigium.”
[38] “Norges Oldtid,” by Gabriel Gustafson. Kristiania, 1906.
[39] “Notes on Shipbuilding and Nautical Terms of Old in the North,”
by Eiríkr Magnússon. A paper read before the Viking Club for Northern
Research. London, 1906.
[40] Du Chaillu (“The Viking Age,” _vide supra_) attributes
these ship-form graves to the Iron Age, and remarks that similar
monuments have been found in England and Scotland. “One of the most
interesting,” he adds, “is that where the rowers’ seats are marked,
and even a stone placed in the position of the mast” (p. 309, vol.
i.). This is reproduced in Fig. 27.
[41] For further details as to the Viking mode of burial, the reader
is referred to vol. i. chap. xix. of Du Chaillu’s “The Viking Age.”
[42] See “The Old Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and
England,” vol. i., by George Stephens, F.S.A., London, 1866.
[43] “Ancient and Modern Ships,” part i., “Wooden Sailing Ships,” p.
60, by Sir George C. V. Holmes, K.C.V.O., C.B., London, 1900.
[44] Magnússon’s “Notes on Shipbuilding,” &c., _ut supra_, p. 50.
[45] Reproduced on p. 126, fig. 536, of Prof. Gustafson’s “Norges
Oldtid.”
[46] Evidently the early Europeans did not merely make rash voyages,
trusting entirely to good luck to reach their port. It is quite clear
that they had given serious study to seamanship by the early part of
the fifth century, for when Lupus and German, two Gallic prelates,
crossed the Channel to Britain in the year 429 A.D., they encountered
very bad weather, and Constantius adds that St. German poured oil on
the waves. The latter’s earlier days having been spent in Gaul, in
Rome and as duke over a wide district, he had evidently picked up
this item of seamanship from the mariners of the southern shores.
(See Canon Bright’s “Chapters of Early English Church History,”
Oxford, 1897, p. 19 and notes.)
[47] “Navi Venete da codici Marini e dipinti,” by Cesare Augusto
Levi, Venice, 1892.
[48] See the ship in the seal of Dam, Fig. 40.
[49] “Social England,” edited by H. D. Traill, D.C.L., and J. S.
Mann, M.A., London, 1901. See article by W. Laird Clowes, vol. i. p.
589.
[50] See “Handbook to the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the
British Museum,” London, 1899.
The Edward III. coin will be found to be reproduced on all the
publications of the Navy Records Society.
[51] Ballingers were long, low vessels for oars and sails, introduced
in the fourteenth century by Biscayan builders.
[52] See “Gentile da Fabriano,” p. 134, by Arduino Colasanti, Bergamo
1909.
[53] See Fig. 37 in “Navi Venete.”
[54] See “The Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio,” by Pompeo
Molmenti and Gustav Ludwig, London, 1907.
[55] “Hans Memling,” p. 46, by W. H. James Weale, London, 1901.
[56] Reproduced in “Navi Venete,” Fig. 96.
[57] See “Musée Rétrospectif de la Classe 33,” &c.
[58] This MS. has been carefully reproduced in “Monuments et
Mémoires,” par Georges Perrot and Robert de la Steyrie. Tome onzième.
See article on “Un Manuscrit de la Bibliothèque de Philippe le bon à
Saint-Pétersbourg,” Paris, 1904.
[59] See “Ancient and Modern Ships,” p. 74, by Sir G. C. V. Holmes,
London, 1900.
[60] “Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII.,”
edited by M. Oppenheim, Navy Records Society, 1896. I wish to
acknowledge my indebtedness to this valuable volume for much
information in connection with Henry VII.’s ships.
[61] In the Middle Ages it was the custom to refer to the masts of a
ship possessing four in the manner as above. The aftermost was the
bonaventure.
[62] “On the Spanish Main,” by John Masefield, London, 1906. See
chap, xvi., on “Ships and Rigs.”
[63] See article by W. Laird Clowes in vol. ii. of Traill and Mann’s
“Social England,” London, 1901.
[64] See “Christopher Columbus and the New World of his Discovery,”
by Filson Young, London, 1906. The reader is especially advised
to study an admirable article in vol. ii. of this work on “The
Navigation of Columbus’s First Voyage,” by the Earl of Dunraven.
[65] See “Ancient and Modern Ships,” by Sir G. C. V. Holmes.
[66] London, 1830.
[67] “Navi Venete.”
[68] See “Letters and Papers relating to the War with France,
1512-1513,” by Alfred Spont, Navy Records Society, 1897.
[69] “A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and of
Merchant Shipping in Relation to the Navy,” vol. i., 1509-1660, by M.
Oppenheim, London, 1896.
[70] “On the Spanish Main,” by John Masefield, chap. xvi., on “Ships
and Rigs.”
[71] Reprinted in “The Naval Miscellany,” edited by Professor Sir J.
K. Laughton, M.A., R.N., vol. i., Navy Records Society, 1902.
[72] This was the Missa Sicca (Messe Sèche), the “Messe Navale,” or
“Missa Nautica,” in which no consecration took place.
[73] See “Companion to English History (Middle Ages),” edited by F.
P. Barnard, M.A., F.S.A., Oxford, 1902; article on “Shipping,” by M.
Oppenheim.
[74] Manwayring, who fought in the English Fleet against the Armada,
states that a “cross-sail” (square-rigged) ship in a sea cannot sail
nearer than six points, unless there be tide or current setting her
to windward.
[75] See chap. iii. p. 78. This revival in Edward VI.’s time of lead
sheathing was copied from the contemporary custom among Spanish ships.
[76] P. 16.
[77] “Judicious and Select Essayes,” p. 33.
[78] See article on “Public Health,” by Charles Creighton, on p. 763,
vol. i., of Traill and Mann’s “Social England.”
[79] “Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” edited by M. Oppenheim,
Navy Records Society. See vol. ii. p. 235.
[80] Edited by Professor Sir J. K. Laughton, M.A., R.N., Navy Records
Society, 1894.
[81] Given on p. 274 of “State Papers relating to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada,” _vide supra_.
[82] _Ibid._ p. 82.
[83] See “The British Mercantile Marine: a Short Historical Review,”
by Edward Blackmore, London, 1897.
[84] “Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” edited by M. Oppenheim,
Navy Records Society, 1902. See vol. ii. p. 328.
[85] “Papers relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585-1587,”
edited by J. S. Corbett, LL.M., Navy Records Society, 1898. I wish
to express my indebtedness to this volume, and to Mr. Oppenheim’s
“Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” for much matter in regard to
the different types of Elizabethan ships.
[86] The reader who desires fuller information on the subject is
referred to an interesting article “The Lost Tapestries of the House
of Lords,” in _Harper’s Monthly Magazine_, April, 1907, from the pen
of Mr. Edmund Gosse.
[87] These nettings were at first made of metal chain, but in the
time of Elizabeth they were of rope.
[88] The illustration is taken from a print in the British Museum
made by an artist who was born in 1620.
[89] It is interesting to note that in the year 1903 some Armada
relics, consisting of a bronze breach loader, found fully charged,
and a pair of bronze compasses were recovered from the wreck of the
Spanish galleon _Florencia_, in Tobermory Bay, Isle of Mull. She had
formed one of the Spanish fleet which fled up the North Sea from the
English Channel, round the north of Scotland to the west coast, where
in August of 1588 this 900-ton ship was blown up.
[90] See “Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson,” vol. ii. p. 318 _et
seq._
[91] See vol. x., p. 158, of Maclehose’s edition of 1903.
[92] This map will be found reproduced at p. 171, vol. ii., of
Maclehose’s edition of Hakluyt, published in 1903.
[93] That is to say he not merely covers with the canvas-cloth the
whole length of the deck to prevent boarding, but the nettings would
also be drawn over the waist to catch the falling wreckage of spars.
(See Fig. 53.)
[94] Dexterous.
[95] “Boord and boord”—_i.e._, when two ships touch each other.
Manwayring advises against boarding the enemy at the quarter, which
is the worst place, because it is high. The best place for entering
was at the bows, but the best point for the play of the guns was to
come up to her “athwart her hawes”—_i.e._, across her bows. By this
means you could then bring all your broadside to play upon her, while
all the time the enemy could only use her chase and prow pieces.
[96] I am far from convinced, however, that the drawing is in this
respect correct. Edward Hayward in his book on “The Sizes and Lengths
of Riggings for all His Majesties Ships and Frigates,” printed in
London in 1660, only twenty-three years after the _Sovereign of the
Seas_ was launched, makes no mention whatever of either her royals or
of any mast or spar above topgallant, although he mentions in detail
the masts and yards and rigging and sails other than royals. He does
mention, however, that the _Sovereign_ carried a bonnet to be laced
on to her spritsail. It is possible, however, that the royals were
added in 1684, when she was rebuilt.
[97] See Appendix II. of “Ancient and Modern Ships,” by Sir G. C. V.
Holmes.
[98] See “A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and of
Merchant Shipping in Relation to the Navy,” &c., by M. Oppenheim, p.
268.
[99] Edited by J. R. Tanner, M.A., Navy Records Society, 1896, from
the MSS. in the Pepysian Library.
[100] I am indebted for many important details of this reign to “A
Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval MSS. in the Pepysian Library at
Magdalene, Cambridge,” edited by Dr. J. R. Tanner, Navy Records
Society, 1903.
[101] “Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations,” p. 29.
[102] But see Chapter IX. of this volume.
[103] “Ancient and Modern Ships,” pp. 111, 112.
[104] “The Royal Navy,” by W. Laird Clowes, London, 1898. See p. 25,
vol. ii.
[105] “Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666-1740,” edited by Clement
R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., Navy Records Society, 1895. See p. 24.
[106] “Old Sea Wings, Ways and Words in the Days of Oak and Hemp,” by
Robert C. Leslie, London, 1890.
[107] For the purpose of not showing too prominently the blood shed
in casualties.
[108] For further matter regarding the American frigates, the reader
is referred to “American Merchant Ships and Sailors,” by William J.
Abbot, New York, 1902.
[109] See pp. 36-37.
[110] For some of the facts in connection with this period I
am indebted to articles by the late Sir W. Laird Clowes in his
monumental history of “The Royal Navy,” and in Traill and Mann’s
“Social England.”
[111] “The Navy Sixty Years Ago,” by Admiral Moresby, in the
_National Review_ of December 1908.
[112] See an interesting article by Mr. Frank T. Bullen on “Deep-Sea
Sailing” in the _Yachting Monthly_ of August 1907, to which I am
indebted for some details of information.
[113] See “La Navigation Commerciale au XIX^e Siècle,” by Ambroise
Colin, Paris, 1901.
[114] “Ancient and Modern Ships,” part ii., “The Era of Steam, Iron
and Steel,” p. 24, by Sir George C. V. Holmes, K.C.V.O., C.B.,
London, 1906.
[115] “The British Mercantile Marine,” by Edward Blackmore, London,
1897.
[116] In connection with this chapter, I wish to acknowledge my
indebtedness to certain matter contained in the following:
“Architectura Navalis Mercatoria,” by F. H. Chapman, Holmiæ, 1768;
“The History of Yachting,” by Arthur H. Clark, New York, 1904;
“Yachting,” by Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart., Lord Brassey, &c., 2
vols., London, 1894-95; “Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia,” by H.
Warington Smyth, London, 1906; “Lloyd’s Almanac”; “Lloyd’s Yacht
Register,” &c.; the _Yachtsman_; the _Yachting World_; the _Yachting
Monthly_.
[117] “Architectura Navalis Mercatoria,” by F. H. Chapman, Holmiæ,
1768.
[118] This vessel was until recently in Portsmouth Harbour.
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