INDEX
Reading edition
Aaron Manby, 183
Abell, Sir Westcott, 240
Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, 246
Ability of an East Indiaman navigator, 142
Acadia, 178
Acre, 15
Active, 145
Admiral Watson, 94
Adriatic, The, 9
Agincourt, 148
Ajax, 92
Albert Webb, 118
Alfred, 98, 99, 100, 148
Allan Line, 197, 230
Alnwick Castle, 147
American clippers, 151
American Line, 183, 195
American Mercantile Marine, 152, 220, 244
American packets, 123
American trade, 104, 151
American War, 117
Anglesey, 147, 148
Anglo-Dutch wars, 66
Ann McKim, 150
Aquila, 25
Aquitania, 170, 173, 199, 200, 201
Arabic, 196
Archimedes, 184, 185
Arctic, 124
Ariel, 161, 162, 164
Arizona, 192
“Art of Seafighting, The,” 95
Astell, 112
Aventurier, 100, 101
Audacious, H.M.S., 216
Auguste Victoria, 211
Austral, 192
Australian Black Ball Line, 157
Australian gold discovery, 156
Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co., 187
Austria, 211
Austrian Lloyd Company, 235
Baden-Powell, Sir Robert, 142
Baines, James, 135, 157
Balearic Isles, 5
Ballasting, 26
Baltic, 188
Barcelona ordinance, 22
Barham, 148
Beatty, Earl, 2
Belle-Poule, 100
Bellone, 112
Benbow, Admiral, 88
Berceau, 100
Berengaria, 170, 199, 202, 203, 217
Berlin, 216
Berthing a big liner, 198
Big Ship Masters, 208
Bismarck, 202, 218
Black Ball Line, 117, 123
“Black Book of the Admiralty,” 31
Black Sea, 16
Blackwall, 77, 80, 82, 92, 103, 115, 117, 134, 136, 146, 148, 172, 182, 188
Blenheim, 147
Blohm & Voss, 202
Boddam, 97
Bombay Castle, 93, 98, 99
Bombay Insurance Society, 102
Bona Confidentia, 58
Bona Esperanza, 58
Borussia, 210
Boulton & Watt, 170, 173
Bremen, 214
Britannia, 178
Britannic, 196, 200
British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 178
British crews in American packets, 124
British Navigation Laws, Repeal of, 152, 212
British Queen, 174
Brunel, 174, 185, 187, 188
Brunswick Basin, 92, 93
Buckinghamshire, 135
Buenos Ayrean, 190
Burns, George, 177, 178
Cabot, John, 205
Cabot, Sebastian, 49, 55, 59
Caird of Greenock, 210, 214
Caledonia, 171, 178
Campania, 195, 196, 214
Canada, 123
Canton, 97
Cap Trafalgar, 197
Cargatores, 24
Carlisle Castle, 148
Carmania, 197, 198
Carn Brae Castle, 115
Caroline, 111, 112
Carthaginians, 5
Cedric, 196
Celtic, 196
Ceylon, 112
Challenge, 153, 154, 156
Challenger, 153
Chancellor, Richard, 58
Charlotte Dundas, 169, 170
Chaucer, 42
Chile, 179
“China Clippers, The,” 164
China fleet, 100
Christiana, 25
Chrysolite, 153
Cidona, 25
Cilicians, 5
City of Dublin Steam Company, 123
City of Edinburgh, 172, 173
City of Glasgow, 191
City of Manchester, 191
City of New York, 193
City of Paris, 193, 194
Claremont, 170
Clarence, 147
Clark, Captain A. H., 123, 155
Clermont, 170, 171
“Clipper Ship Era, The,” 123, 155
Clipper ships, 151
Clyde, The, 161
Coal brigs, 130
Cogge, 39
Collins Line, 124, 182, 195
Columbia, 178, 211
Columbus, 14, 48
Comet, 170
Communal idea, 22, 27, 56
Continental Service, 119
Convoy of East Indiamen, A, 112
Convoy system, 12, 15, 23
Conway, 243
Cook, Captain, 130
Cort, Henry, 189
Cost of building ships, 103
Coutts, 98
“Cracking-on,” 150, 158
Cramp shipyard, 223
Cretans, 5
Crutchley, Commander, R.N.R., 144
Cumberland, 98
Cunard Company, 178, 186, 190, 192, 195, 197, 202
Cunard losses, 198
Cunard, Mr., 177
Cutty Sark, 162, 166, 181
Cybèle, 97
Dalmatia, 8
Dance, Commodore, 98, 100, 122
Demand for merchant shipping, 7
Denny, William, 171
Deptford, 81
Desertion, 27
Deutschland, 210, 213
Devitt & Moore, 149
Diesel Engines, 240, 243
Discipline, 20
Dogger, 40
Dorsetshire, 98
Downie, W. I., 138, 166
Drake, Francis, 50
Dramatic Line, 118, 123
Dreadnought, 156
Drottningholm, 197
Duchess of Atholl, 172
Duke of Marlborough, 122
Duke of Richmond, 94
Dunbar, 135, 144, 147
Dutch East India Company, 73
Earl of Abergavenny, 98
Earl of Balcarres, 135
Earl Camden, 98, 100
Earl of Hardwicke, 145, 148
East India Company, 9, 73, 76, 78, 81, 104, 116, 137, 175, 176, 177, 242
East India Docks, 103
East Indiamen, 18, 73, 76, 77, 79, 90, 92, 93, 97, 98, 99, 103, 130, 145, 147, 148, 172, 246
Edward Bonaventure, 58, 77
Efficiency of the old-time mariner, 132
Egyptians, 3
Elbe, 214
Elizabeth, 171, 176
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 125
Emigrant traffic, 212
Emmanuel, 72
Ems, 214
Emu, 145
Enemies, attacks by, 94
English Maritime Law, 31
Enterprise, 173
Ericsson, John, 184
Essex, 246
Etruria, 192
Europe, 111, 112
Evolution of the ship, 3, 7, 17, 32, 45, 168
Exeter, 98
Falcon, 168, 173
Falmouth, 92
Falmouth, 179
Falmouth packet service, 119, 122
Fawkener, 120
Ferreira, 168
Fiery Cross, 139, 164
Fishermen and Merchantmen, 62
Fishermen’s quarrels, 70
Fishery Department, Board of Trade, 128
Flying Cloud, 143
Forrest, Captain Thomas, 90
Forte, 97
Fortima, 149
Forwood, Sir William B., 157, 160
Fowler, Lieut. Robert, R.N., 99, 102
Francis B. Ogden, 184
Free Trade, 222
Free trade vessels, 135
French Mercantile Marine, 231, 232
French Naval Architects, 93
Fulton, Robert, 170
Future of the Mercantile Marines, 246
Ganges, 98, 99, 100
Geary, Captain, R.N., 115
General Steam Navigation Company, 145, 172, 182
Genoa, 13
Geordie, 130
George Washington, 216
German Australian Line, 208
German East Africa Line, 208
German liners, 195
Giulio Cesare, 233
Godezere, 38
Grâce Dieu, 53
Great Britain, 183, 185, 186
Great Eastern, 188, 190, 196
Great Republic, 156
Great Western, 174, 183
Great Western Steamship Company, 185
Greeks, 3
Greens, The, 77, 94, 104, 115, 116, 135, 136, 138, 144, 145, 146, 153, 172
Grotius, 64
Growth of the Mercantile Marine, 42
Guion Line, 183, 192
“Gulliver’s Travels,” 84, 86
Guy Mannering, 118
Hakluyt, 50, 55
Hall, Messrs., 153
Hamburg-America Line, 208, 209, 211
Hamburg-Bremen-Africa Line, 208
Hamburg-South America Line, 208
Hansa Line, 208
Hanseatic League, 34, 41, 62, 65
Harland, Sir Edward, 187
Harland & Wolff, 187, 190
Hawkins, 51
Hay, Captain, 113, 114
Heligoland, 41
Hellenis, 170
Henry Addington, 98
Herbert, of Cherbury, Lord, 84
Herring exports in 1913, 129
Highflyer, H.M.S., 215
Himalaya, 188
Hindostan, 180
Holy Land, The, 11
Homeric, 199, 201
Hope, 98, 99
Hornby, Admiral Phipps, 201
Hotspur, 141, 142
Hour-glasses, 85
Huddart, Captain Joseph, F.R.S., 122
Hulls, Jonathan, 169
Illyrians, 5
Imperator, 202, 217
Indian Empire, 9
Indomitable, 166, 199
Inman, William, 191
Inman Line, 183
Ionians, 5
Iron and Steel, 182
Iron Mast, The first, 185
Isaac Webb, 118
Ismay, T. H., 190
Istria, 8
Italian Mercantile Marine, 233
Ivernia, 196
James, Sir William, Bart., 98
James Baines, 143
James Watt, 173
Japanese Merchant Fleet, 233
Jardine, Mattheson & Co., 146
John Tutteburie, 39
Jouffroy, Marquis de, 169
Judith, 51
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 196, 214, 215, 216
Kaiser Wilhelm II., 215
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, 214
Kate Carnie, 161
Kent, 146, 147, 148
King of the Netherlands, 172
Kosmos Line, 208
La France, 232
Lady Jocelyn, 164
Lady Lansdowne, 183
Lady Melville, 104, 135
Laird & Co., 183, 184, 211
Laws of Oleron, 30
Leicester, 78
Lennox, Captain Charles, 97
Letters of Marque, 96, 129
Leviathan, 203, 217
Linois, Admiral, 99, 100, 120
Liparian Isles, 5
Liverpool, Port of, 80, 104, 164
Lloyd’s Register, 91, 173, 176, 240
London, Port of, 80, 104, 117
Lord Keith, 111, 112
Lord Macartney, 93
Lowell, James Russell, 126
Lubbock, Basil, 164
Lucania, 195, 196, 214
Lucie Woermann, 231
Lucy, Sir Thomas, 85
Lusitania, 198, 199
Lycians, 5
MacIver, David, 177, 178
McKay, Donald, 156
Macquarie, 136, 149
Madagascar, 148
Madre de Dios, 50
Majestic, 170, 194, 199, 202, 203, 204, 206, 218
Malocello, 46
Manby, Aaron, 183
Marco Polo, 143, 157
Marengo, 100
Marine Insurance Company, The first, 91
“Mariner’s Jewel, The,” 84
Maritime Acts, 65
Maritime Law, 19, 30
Marlborough, 147
Martaban, 160
Mastery of the Sea, 88
Mauritania, 198, 199, 200, 205
Mediterranean, 7, 17
Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, 160
Merchant Ships of the North, 30
Merchantman as privateer or pirate, 87
Melbourne, 136, 148
Melbourne trade, 147
Memnon, 151
Mercantile Marine of the Sixteenth Century, 53
Mercantile Marines, The Minor, 229
Mercantile Supremacy at Sea, 90
Meriton, Captain, 112, 113
Messageries Maritimes, 231
Michelson, Godeke, 40
Middle Ages, 10, 13, 21, 37, 52
“Midshipman, Reminiscences of a Blackwall,” 138
Midshipmen, 137
Mighty Merchantmen, 103
Milford steam packets, 124
Miller, Patrick, 169
Minerve, 112
Moa, 145
Modern Merchant Ship, The, 194
Modern Navigation, 200
Moffat, Captain H. Y., 131
Monarch, 148
Moneys, The, 94, 104, 116, 146
Monson, Sir William, 82
Moodie, Captain, 166
Moslem power, 10, 11
Mount Vernon, 221
Mourning, sign of, 141
Napier, Robert, 171, 177, 178
Navigation Acts, 65, 67
Navigation Laws, Repeal of, 176
Neptune, 145
New World, 118
Nisbett, Captain, 247
Nordamerika, 210
Norfolk, 148
North German Lloyd, 196, 208, 209, 214, 215
North Sea fisheries, 32
Northumberland, 144
Novelty, 184
Ocean, 97, 98
Oceanic, 190, 196
O’Halloran, Captain, 158
Oliva, 25
Olympic, 170, 199, 200
Opium trade, 151
Oregon, 192
Orient, 192
Orient Line, 192
Oriental, 152, 154
Orinoco, 170
Osterley, 92
Owen, Sir Douglas, 31
Owen Glendower, 145, 148
Pacific Steam Navigation Company, 179
Packet Ships and Brigs, 119
Panama Canal, 223, 224
Paris, 232
Park, Robert, 95
Patriotic Fund Committee, 101
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 77, 124, 179, 188
Pepys, Samuel, 81, 84
Persia, 186
Peru, 179
Peters, Andrew, 114
Pett, Phineas, 80
Phœnicians, 3
Piémontaise, 108, 110
Piracy, 5, 37
Pisa, 13
Plimsoll mark, 25
Polar Expedition, The first, 67
Poplar Fund, 106
Portsmouth, Admiral of, 115
Premium, 131
President, 175
Prince of Wales, 146, 148
Prince Henry the Navigator, 47, 75, 76, 77
Princess Royal, 182
Prinzessin Charlotte, 171
Privateer, 96
Quadruple-Expansion Engine, 197
Queen, 146, 148
Rabelais, 54
Rainbow, 151
Rainier, Rear-Admiral, 97
Red Dragon, 78
Red Jacket, 157
Red Star Line, 123
Regent, 53
Rhein, 210
Rhodian sea-law, 19, 30
Richard Cœur de Lion, 11, 30
Rise and Fall of the German Mercantile Marine, 208
Rob Roy, 171
Robert F. Stockton, 184
Rogers, Captain W., 122
Roland Line, 208
Roman, 144
Roman merchant ships, 4, 17
Ross & Primrose, 177
Royal Fishery Company, 69
Royal George, 98, 99, 100, 101
Royal Mail Line, 124, 179
Royal Oake, 81
Royal William, 173, 174, 177
Russell, John Scott, 187, 188
St. Blazius, 25
St. Louis, 223
St. Paul, 223
Sail-Carriers, The, 134
Samuel Russell, 151
San Felipe, 50
Savannah, 171
Saxonia, 196, 211
“School and Sea Days,” 141
Scotia, 186
Screw Propeller, The, 183
Sea Fisheries Act of 1868, 128
Sea language, 82
Seamanship, Fine, 118
Seamen as authors, 54
Sea Witch, 151
Selden, 64
Sémillante, 100
Sercey, Rear-Admiral, 97
Serica, 161, 164
Seringapatam, 135, 136, 145
Servia, 190
Seventeenth-Century Seafaring, 74, 75
Ship-money, Levying of, 65
Shipbuilding in America, 224, 225
Shipper Berline of Prussia, 39
Ship’s bell, Introduction of, 53
Shipwrights Company, 80
Side-lights, 123
Signal code, 74
Silenus, 111
Simon of Utrecht, 41
Sir Edward Paget, 115, 116
Sir Lancelot, 161, 164, 166
Sirius, 173, 174
Smith, Francis, 184
Smith, T. & W., 116, 136, 144, 147
Somes, 135, 147
Southampton, 179
Sovereign of the Seas, 66, 143
Spain, 194
Spanish Armada, 63, 67
Spars and Stays, 160
Speculum Nauticum, 72
State post-office, 119
Steam, Iron and Steel, 168, 182
Steele of Greenock, 161, 164
Stertebeker, 40
Stevens, John, 184
Stokehold of an Oil-Fuel Cunarder, 216
Stone ballast, 60
Stornoway, 153
Streatham, 111, 112
Sylph, 146
Suez Canal, 167, 180, 182, 194
Sultan, 192
Superb, 148
Swift, Dean, 84, 86
Symington, William, 169
Taeping, 139, 161, 164
Taitsing, 165
Taunton Castle, 97
Teutonic, 194
Thames, 135
Thermopylae, 162, 165, 166, 167, 181
Three Brothers, 130
Tilbury, 92
Timmins, Captain, 101
Titanic, 200
Townshend, 120
Toynbee, Arnold, 141
Toynbee, Captain Henry, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., 141
Trades Increase, 79
Traditions, 243
Trafalgar, 138, 139
Trident, 182
Triple-Expansion Engine, 197
Triumph of Steam, The, 168
Truelove, 129
Turbine, The, 197
Turbinia, 197
Umbria, 192
Union Line, 144
United States Merchant Marine Act, 227
United States Shipping Board, 225
Urmston, Sir James, 246
Urmston, Colonel E. B., C.B., 246
Urso, 25
Valentine, 92
Vasco da Gama, 47, 75, 77
Vaterland, 202, 217
Venetian Statutes, 21, 25
Venetians, 8, 11, 13, 29
Vesta, 124
Victor, 110, 112
Victoria, 187
Victorian, 197
Victual Brothers, 40
Virginia, 220
Virginian, 197, 230
Vivaldi, 47
Walpole, Capt. Hon. Richard, 98
Warley, 98, 100
Warren Hastings, 93, 98, 107
Washington Irving, 125
Waterloo, 104
West Indiamen, 90
West Indies Service, 121
Wexford, 98
Whall, Captain W. B., 141, 142, 143
White Star Line, 157, 183, 187, 188, 191, 194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 211
Wigrams, The, 77, 94, 104, 115, 116, 135, 144, 145, 146, 172
William Fawcett, 180
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 59
Wilson, Captain Henry, 98
Windham, 112
Windsor Castle, 147
Woermann Line, 208
Woodford, 97
Worcester, 146, 243
World’s Biggest Ship, 206
Wreckers, 23
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