GENERAL INDEX. (continued 2)

Thunderer; her engines, i. 225

Tides of the Ocean, iv. 92

Tilbury Fort; Great Storm of 1703; West Indiamen wrecked, ii. 205

Time, mode of reckoning it in ships; “watches,” “bells,” “dog-watches,” i. 50

Time, difference between London and San Francisco, iv. 30

Timor, Lieut. Bligh at; mutiny of the Bounty, i. 242

Tobacco in Cuba when discovered by Columbus, iii. 290

Tobago; Crusoe’s Island, i. 179

Top-knot, a minute flat-fish, iv. 206

Torpedo (fish), iv. 160

Torpedoes: Fulton’s submarine boat, ii. 88; Marquis of Worcester’s inventions, 146; Bishop Wilkins’s subaqueous vessel, or “ark,” 148; Schott, Knuffler, Fulton’s torpedoes, ib., 149; Cushing’s attack on the “Albemarle,” 151; “Lay” torpedo, ib.; Porter’s, Fulton’s, Lay torpedo, Spar torpedo, 153; Paraguayan torpedo, 154; Harvey torpedo, 153, 155; Whitehead or “fish” torpedo, 155

Torres, Luis Vaes de; Torres Strait, iii. 277

Tortuga, bucaniers at, iii. 5, 6; wild dogs and horses, iii. 7; its discovery; turtles, 315

Torture: Spaniards tortured by pirates, iii. 38

Toulon, Siege of, i. 6

“Trades’ Increase,” East Indiaman, ii. 13

Trafalgar, Battle of, i. 10–13, 227

Training Ships, i. 44; the Chichester, 45, 47; course of instruction and drill, 48, 49; saluting officers, 48; incessant work, 49; iv. 287

Transportation of convicts to Australia, i. 154

Treasure ships, i. 311; ii. 19, 55, 56, 59–61; iii. 60, 63

Trent in the ice, iii. 165, 166, 167

Trepang fisheries (Holothuria), iv. 127, 128

Trevethick, Robt., portrait, ii. 97

Trinidad, Columbus landing at, i. 177, 178; iii. 295; visit of Amerigo Vespucci, 302; Raleigh at, ii. 4, 33

Trinidad, Port of Spain, i. 179–182

Trinity House and the Trinity Corporation, iv. 287–289; duties of the Board, 289; light-vessels and staff of the Corporation, ib.; royal and noble Masters and Brethren, ib.; fog-horns or Siren signals, ib.

Tripe de roche: rock-lichen as food, iii. 241

Tristan d’Acunha, i. 38, 201

Triton, a univalve shell, iv. 144

Trochus, a univalve shell, iv. 141

Trollope, Anthony: “The West Indies and the Spanish Main,” i. 179, 182, 183; Bermuda, 187, 188; New Zealand, iv. 51; Sydney, 52; Melbourne, 54

Tromp, Martin, ii. 30

Tryal, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 50, 55

Tunny: tunny-fishing, iv. 177

Turbo, a univalve shell, iv. 141

Turret-ships: “Monitor,” “Merrimac,” “Miantonoma,” ii. 139, 140, 141; interior of a turret-ship, 142; “Brooklyn,” “Ohio,” Captain, Vanguard, Warrior, Black Prince, 143; other turret-ships: Inflexible, 144, 145; Alexandra, 146, 147

Turtle at the Island of Ascension, i. 202

“Tuscarora:” deep-sea soundings, i. 28, 30

Twain, Mark: his account of the Bermudas, i. 189

Tyre, Ships of, i. 259

Unclassed ships, ii. 123

Union gun-boat, i. 6

“United Kingdom,” steam-ship, ii. 98, 99

“United States,” Dr. Hayes’s Arctic expedition, iii. 255

Univalves, iv. 139

Unseaworthy ships, ii. 112–119

Upernavik, Danish settlement at, iii. 254

Urchins: sea-urchins, iv. 126, 128

Utah, iv. 23

Valetta, i. 98

Valparaiso, i. 172, 173

Vancouver: his discoveries, iii. 319

Vancouver Island: Esquimalt; Victoria, i. 163, 165; Exploring Expedition, 167; cedar canoes, ib.; “Chinook jargon,” ib.; Nanaimo, 168

Vandepat, Admiral, anecdotes of, i. 218

Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate, iii. 69; betrayed by a former friend, and executed, 70

Vanguard (Nelson’s ship), i. 105; ii. 74

Vanguard, loss of the, i. 33, 63–66; ii. 143

Van Tromp, Admiral, ii. 31

Vasco da Gama: the Cape doubled by him, i. 203; discovery of Natal, 211; his first voyage to India, iii. 298; arrival at Calicut, 299; second expedition, ib.; arrival at, and death in, Cochin China, 300; portrait, 301

Vasco Nuñez, his discoveries in the Pacific, iii. 314

Vasco Perez de Meira; his siege of Gibraltar, i. 91

Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon, i. 119

“Vega”: Professor Nordenskjöld’s Arctic voyage, iii. 274

Venerable: mutiny of the Nore, i. 254

Venetian ships, i. 262

Venice, Breakwater at, ii. 188

“Venus’s Flower-basket,” i. 30, 32

Verne, Jules: “Round the World in Eighty Days,” iv. 2, 5

Verne: citadel of the Verne, Portland, ii. 196, 197

Vernon, Admiral (“Old Grog”), i. 51

“Vesta” (Russian) and “Assari Tefvik” (Turkish) ships: action between them, i. 27

Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hübner, iv. 43

Victoria, Vancouver Island, i. 163, 165

Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross, iii. 280

Victory: Sir John Ross’s Arctic ship, iii. 186, 225

Victory: Queen Elizabeth’s ship, i. 292

Victory: Nelson’s ship, i. 4–12, 96, 227

Vikings: their galleys, i. 263; their Arctic voyages, iii. 115

Viking ship discovered at Gokstad, iv. 230

Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar, i. 11

Virgil’s “Æneid,” references to the sea, iv. 291

“Virginia,” “Merrimac,” i. 19

Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow, i. 319; named by Queen Elizabeth, ib.; colonisation of, ii. 2

Vogt, on the Agalma rubra, iv. 118

Voices of fish, iv. 178

Volante, a carriage in Havana, i. 184

Volcanoes: in the Antarctic region, iii. 280; in Japan, iv. 47; in New Zealand, 50; in the West Indies, i. 186; volcanic origin of Bermuda, i. 187

Volunteers, Naval, i. 232–234

Voluta, a univalve shell, iv. 141

Wager, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 51, 54

“Waisters” in guard ships, i. 45

Walker, Dr. David: “Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216

“Walnut Shell” boat, for Franklin’s second expedition, iii. 194

Walrus, iii. 146, 157, 166; early description of it, 130

Walrus meat, iii. 238, 240, 245, 263

Walter, Rev. R., “Anson’s Voyage Round the World,” ii. 46

Warburton, Eliot, “The Crescent and the Cross,” i. 98; lost in the “Amazon,” ii. 283

Warrior, the first English ironclad, i. 18, 85; ii. 143; her engine-room, i. 225, 226

Warwick, the King-maker: his piracies, i. 276

“Watches” and “dog-watches,” i. 50

Watt, James: the steam-engine, ii. 80; portrait, 97

Waves off the Cape of Good Hope, iv. 89

Webb, Capt. Matthew, his “Art of Swimming,” iv. 258; his wonderful feats in natation, iv. 258–266; portrait, 265

Weddell, Captain: voyage to the South Seas, iii. 279

Weever-fish, iv. 205, 206

Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara, iv. 15; San Francisco, 30

West Indian Islands, map, iii. 17

West India Naval Station, i. 178

West Indies: the home of the bucaniers, iii. 2

Weymouth’s attempt to discover North-West Passage, iii. 143

Weyprecht, Lieutenant: Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the “Tegethoff,” iii. 271

Whales and whale-fishing, iv. 179–184; Northern and Southern whales, 180, 181; sperm whale, spermaceti, 181, 182; blubber and oil, 182; harpooning, 183; whales in North Pacific, 32

Whalers of Behring Sea, i. 139, 140

Whale Sound, Greenland, iii. 233

Whirlpools: iv. 92, 93, 95

Whitby, iv. 256

White, John, first governor of Virginia, ii. 2

White, Walter: “A Sailor Boy’s Log-book,” i. 48

Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones, iii. 72

Whitehead torpedo, ii. 155

“White Star” Line of Steam-ships, ii. 111

“White Star” Liner crossing the Atlantic, iv. 1

Whitstable oyster beds, iv. 137

Whitworth, Sir Joseph; big guns and armour-plates, i. 86

Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land, iii. 279

Wilkins, Bishop; submarine vessel or “ark,” ii. 148

William the Conqueror’s ships, i. 266

William III.’s Navy, i. 232

Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his disastrous voyage, iii. 122

Wind in the Polar regions, iii. 111

Winds in the Mediterranean, i. 107

Wine for sailors in the French Navy, i. 51

Winstanley, Henry, first Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 159, 199

Wolf Rock, Land’s End, iv. 210; Lighthouse, ib.

Wolves, Sir John Richardson’s adventure with, iii. 189, 190

Woman at Sea, iv. 56–65

Women, Life saved by, iv. 221

Wooden and Iron Ships compared, i. 9, 13; “The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,” by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S., 85

Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo: his victory over English ships, i. 277, 278; commander of the “Great Michael,” 281

Wood, Rev. J. G.: sea-weeds, iv. 200, 202

Woodcroft, Bennett, on “Steam Navigation,” ii. 79, 81, 83, 84; the screw propeller, ii. 104

“Woolpacket,” wreck of the, ii. 224; hovellers, 251

Worcester, Marquis of; his inventions: torpedoes, ii. 146; use of steam, ii. 79

Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first “Monitor,” i. 24

Worley, Captain, the pirate, hanged, iii. 70

Wrangell: Russian Arctic exploration, iii. 185

Wrecks, Statistics of, i. 3; iv. 285

Wreckers, ii. 304, 310

“Wrecking,” as a profession, ii. 235; the king’s privileges, 237; Cœur de Lion and his enactments, ib.; the Rôles d’Oleron, ib.; false pilots, ib.; laws of George II., ib.; false lights, 238; waiting for a wreck, 241; wreckers at work; murders; actual examples, 239; wreckers executed, 240; plunder of the “Inverness,” 241, 244; police attacked by thousands, 242; “Bergetta” plundered, 242; arguments of wreckers, ib.; wrecking at the Bahamas, 244; “hovelling v. wrecking,” 245; moral aspect of “wrecking” 256

Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution, ii. 318

“Wright, G. S.,” telegraph steamer, i. 138, 143

Xavier, Francis: Christianity introduced by him into Japan, i. 129

Yarmouth, iv. 248; herring fishery, 250; shipwrecks; loss of the “Osprey,” 249, 250

Yeh, Commissioner: capture of, i. 122

Yellow Sea, i. 122

Yokohama, i. 128, 129, 130; iv. 40

Yorkshire: sketches of the sea-coast, iv. 251

Young, Captain Allen: cruise of the “Pandora,” iii. 92–98; “Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 218

Young, Brigham: Mormonism, iv. 2–4

Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery, iii. 129

Yukon river, i. 170

Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea, i. 117

Zeni, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration, iii. 117

Zoology, Marine. (See Challenger, Cruise of the.)

Zoophytes, i. 31; iv. 111