LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Naval Flags of the World Coloured Frontispiece 



Raleigh at Trinidad To face page 5 



Sir Walter Raleigh 5 



Raleigh on the River 



Monson and the Biscayan Ship ... ... ... 12 



Monson at Cadiz ... ... ... ... ... 17 



Action in Cerimbra Roads .. ... ... 21 



Monson at Broad Haven ... ... ... ... 25 



De Ruyter on the Medway . . . .. ... ... 32 



Peter the Great ... ... ... ... ... 33 



The Imperial Workman receiving a Deputation ... 36 



Old Dockyard at Deptford ... ... ... ... 37 



Saye's Court, Deptford 39 



Commodore Anson ... ... ... ... 45 



The Centurion off Cape Horn ... ... ... 49 



Surrender of the Carmelo ... ... ... ... 56 



Anson taking the Spanish Galleon .., ... 61 



Cape Cod 64 



The Dartmouth in Boston Harbour 65 



Destruction of the Tea Cargoes ... ... ... 72 



Nelson and the Bear ... ... ... ... ... 73 



Nelson at Copenhagen To face page 76 



Lord Nelson ... ... ... ... ... ... 76 



The Charlotte Dundas 84 



Symington ... ... ... ... ... ... 85 



Outline of Fitch's First Boat 89 



Fitch's Second Boat 89 



The Clermont 93 



Bell's Comet 96 



Four Great Engineers To face page 97 



The United Kingdom 99 



Arrival of the Great Western at New York ... 100 



Section and Plan of the Stern of a Screw Steamer 101 



The Robert F . Stockton 103 



The First Cunard Steamer 105 



Canard Paddle Steam-ship Scotia ... ... ... 109 



The Cunard Screw Steam-ship Bothnia ... ... 109 



Mr. Plimsoll 112 



Mr. Plimsoll Speaking in the House of Commons 116 



Exterior of Lloyd's ... .. ... ... ... 124 



Interior of Lloyd's ... ... ... ... ... 125 



The Great Eastern in a Gale off Cape Clear 



To face page 1 29 



Mr. I. K. Brunei 129 



Mr. Scott Russell 129 



The Launch of the Great Eastern ... .. ... 133 



Arrival of the Great Eastern at New York ... 136 



The Monitor passing the Vicksburg Batteries ... 138 



The Miantonoma ... ... ... ... ... 140 



Interior of a Turret Ship 141 



The Inflexible 145 



Section of the A lexandra 147 



Lieutenant Cushing's Attack on the Albemarle ... 149 



Different Forms of Torpedoes ... ... ... 153 



Parayaguan Torpedo blowing up a Brazilian 



Ironclad ... ... ... ... ... 154 



The Tower of Cordouan 157 



Destruction of Rudy erd's Lighthouse. To face page 161 



Winstanley's Lighthouse ... ... ... ... 161 



Rudy erd's Lighthouse ... ... ... ... 161 



The Eddy stone Lighthouse 168 



Portrait of Smeaton ... ... ... ... ... 170 



Interior of the Light-chamber of the Eddystone ... 171 



Lighthouse on the Inchcape Rock 176 



The Skerry vore Lighthouse ... ... ... 178 



Revolving Light Apparatus ... ... ... 1 84 



Breakwater at Venice ... ... ... ... 188 



Cherbourg from the Sea ... ... ... ... 192 



Portland 193 



Holyhead Breakwater ... ... ... ... 196 



Great Storm in the Downs ... ... ... ... 200 



The Storm in the Thames at Wapping 204 



West-Indiamen Driven Ashore at Tilbury Fort ... 205 



A Life-boat Going Out ... ... To face page 209 



Greathead's Life-boat ... ... 209 



Life-boat Saving the Crew of the St. George ... 213 



Loss of a Life-boat at the Shipwreck of the Ann 216 



A Life-boat and Carriage Latest Form ... ... 217 



Ramsgate The Aid Going Out 220 



A Group of Life-boat Men 229 



On the Coast at Deal 232 



Rescue of the Danish Vessel ... 236 



