476 : Index 



Pillars of Hercules, see Gibraltar, 



Straits of, 

 Pineda, Alvarez de, 150, 171 

 Pining, 120 

 Pinzon, Vicente, 149 

 Pius V, Pope, 360 

 Plato, 93-95 



Plimsoll, Samuel, 353-54 

 Pliny, 82 



Po, Fernando, 139 

 Polar Sea, see Arctic Mediterranean 



Sea 

 Polk, James K., 181 

 Pollard, George, Jr., 210-11 

 Polo, Marco, 6j, 133, 144 

 Ponce de Leon, Juan, 149, 171 

 Pook, S. H., 269, 273 

 Porcupine, H.M.S., 258 

 Porter, 378 

 Porto Bello, 165-66 

 Portugal, 132-43 

 Portuguese trade winds, 48 

 Posidonius, 99, 100 

 Pothorst, 120 

 Power, Tyrone, 245 

 President, U.S.S., 370 

 Princeton, U.S.S., 375 

 Privateers, 367-70 

 Propontis, steamship, 302 

 Ptolemy, 100, loi 

 Puerto Rico, 30, 149, 171 

 Pythias, 83, 84, 90, 95, 98-99, 106 



Queen Anne's War, 365 

 Queen Elizabeth, steamship, 345 

 Queen Mary, steamship, 345 

 Quimby, Harriet, 403 



R-34, dirigible, 406 



Radar, 432 



Raeder, Grand Admiral, 351 



Rajt Boo\, 87 



Rainbow, clipper ship, 26S-6g, 272 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, 177 



Rameses II, 80 



Ramsey, Sir Bertram, 438 



Rapid, clipper ship, 276, 277 



Raven-Floki, 108 



Red, White and Blue, lifeboat, 328 



Redjacl{et, clipper ship, 273 



Red Star Line, 237, 241, 242, 247 



Renaissance, 159-60 



Rennels, 81 



Reuterdahl, Henry, 420 



Ribaut, Jean, 172 



Richelieu, Cardinal de, 174 



Rio Grande River, 60 



Robert brothers, 395 



Roberts, Captain, 301 



Roberval, 125 



Robinson, Andrew, 287 



Robinson Line, 246 



Rochambeau, General, 371 



Rockets, 440-41 



Rodney, Admiral, 374 



Rogers, Stanley, 215 



Rolph, John, 189 



Romer, Captain Franz, 333, 335 



Roosevelt, Franklin D., 240, 430 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 389-90, 416, 420 



Roscius, packet ship, 244 



Ross, James Clarke, 207 



Royal African Company, 224 



Royal Air Force, 435 



Royal William, steamship, 300 



Rubruck, 133 



Rumsey, 296 



Russell, Samuel, clipper ship, 266, 275 



Sahuri, King, 77 



Sailing Ship — A Study in Beauty, 215 



St. Brandan's Isle, 95 



St. Helena, 28 



St. Lawrence, Gulf of, 25 



St. Lawrence River, 125, 127 



St. Michael's, 83 



St. Paul's Rocks, 28, 29, 42-43 



Salva, 313 



Samuels, Captain, 242 



Samuelson, Frank, 333-34 



San Roque, Cape of, 21 



Santa Clara, bark, 307 



Santa Cruz, 360 



Santa Maria, 145 



Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 397-98, 401 



Sao Roque, Cape, 22, 53 



