Index 



471 



Farman, Henri, 401 



Farragut, Admiral David G., 378, 382 



Felicity Ann, sloop, 334 



Ferrel, James, 307 



Field, Cyrus, 255, 313, 31 5» 316, 317 



Fighting ships, 357-91 



Fillmore, President, 253 



Firbo, George, 333-34 



Fish & Grinnel, 237 



Fitch, Captain, 328 



Fitch, John, 296 



Florida, 171, 172 



Florida, C.S.S., 385 



Florida Current, 39, 49, 50-51 



Flying Cloud, clipper ship, 253, 271, 



272, 273 

 Fokker, Anthony, 404, 405 

 Fonck, Rene, 407 

 Fore-and-afters, 279-92 

 Fortunate Islands, 95, 96 

 Fortune, 190 

 Four Power Treaty, 428 

 Fox, Richard K., 333 

 Fox, skiff, 333-34 

 Foyen, Sven, 213 

 Fraenkel, Knut, 396 

 Fram, 40 



Francois I, packet ship, 244 

 Franklin, Benjamin, 232-33, 392, 394 

 Franklin, steamship, 304 

 Fremont, Major, 375 

 French and Indian War, 366 

 French Atlantic Telegraph Company, 



319 

 French Line, 342, 345, 349 

 Frobisher, Martin, 125, 363 

 Frye, Roger P., schooner, 292 

 Frye, Senator, 416 

 Fugitive Slave Law, 226 

 Fulton, Robert, 298 

 Fulton II, U.S.S., 418 

 Furuseth, Andy, 214 



Gambia River, 138 

 Garay, Blasco de, 295 

 Gardar, 108 

 Gardener, Captain, 276 

 Gatling, Richard J., 417 

 Gatty, Harold, 87, 88 



Gazelle, S.M.S., 258 



George, Harold L., 410 



Gibraltar, Straits of, 20, 52, 75, 80, 91, 



92, 93. 94> 95 

 Gibson, Charles E., 282 

 Giffard, Henri, 397 

 Gneisenau, 421 

 Gold Coast, 139 

 Golden Eagle, privateer, 368-70 

 Gomez, Esteban, 150 

 Good Hope, Cape of, 20, 80, 8r, 141, 



150 

 Gourgues, Chevalier de, 173 

 Grace Line, 341 

 Graf Spee, warship, 435 

 Graham- White, Claude, 402 

 Grant, Gordon, 215 

 Grasse, Admiral Comte de, 371 

 Gray, Harold E., 408 

 Great Britain, steamship, 303, 304 

 Great Eastern, steamship, 303-04, 306, 



318-19, 322, 344 

 Great Explorations and Discoveries, 



The, 121 

 Great Harry, 362 

 Great Nassau Balloon, 396 

 Great Republic, clipper ship, 271, 272, 



273-74, 306 

 Great Republic, sloop, 333 

 Great Western, sloop, 333 

 Great Western, steamship, 300, 301, 303 

 Greek fire, 358-59 

 Green, Charles, 395-96 

 Greene, Henry, 127 

 Greenland, 21, 24, 27, 39, 40, 110-12, 



115, 119, 120, 201, 202 

 Greenland Ice Cap, 40 

 Greenland Sea, 21 

 Greyhound, yacht, 385 

 GrifiEths, John Willis, 248, 265, 267, 



268-69, 272, 275 

 Grijalva, 150 



Grinnel, Minmrn & Co., 237 

 Guanches, 97 

 Guided missiles, 440-41 

 Guinea, 138, 139 

 Guinea, Gulf of, 22, 23 

 Guinea Current, 43 

 Guiscard, Bohemund, 10% 



