INDEX 



Aberdeen, record landing of fish at, 



97 ; phenomenal growth of fishing 



at, 1 60. 



Admiral of the fleet, the, 142. 

 Apprenticeship system, the, 79 ; 



apprentices in cod-smacks, 107. 

 Aurania, the smack, 60 ; provisioning 



of. So. 

 Auxiliary, suggested North Sea, 



356. 



Bait, 104. 



Barking smacks, 48. 



Beam-trawl, the, 54 ; shooting the, 



57- 



Beam-trawling, 47. 

 Billingsgate, 51, 97, 143, 171, 175. 

 Boarding fish, 71. 

 Brand, Otto, 201. 

 Bridlington in olden times, 23. 

 Brixham and trawling, 48. 

 Buckland, Frank, 105. 

 " Burning off," 89. 

 " Busses," 115. 

 "Busters," 8 1. 



Cabin, smack's, 75. 



Casdmon, 2, 125. 



Campbell, Mr. Thomas, 54. 



Carriers at sea, 235. 



" Cemetery," the, 223. 



Chicago stockyards, the, 146. 



Coal-carrying on the North Sea, 



243- 



Cobra, the loss of the, 269. 

 Cod, live and dead, 101 ; large, 



1 06. 



Cod-chests, 103. 

 Cod-smacks, 64. 



Colliers, fleet of, 23 : bad state of, 



246 ; models of, 247. 

 Collision, narrow escape from, 44 ; 



wilful, 83. 

 Compensation for the Russian 



outrage, 284. 

 Cook, Captain, 30. 

 Cooking in smacks, 77, 81. 

 Coper, the, 70, 84, 201, 204, 205. 

 Coupland, the loss of the, 273. 

 Crabbing, 140. 

 Crane, the loss of the, 279. 

 Crathie, the, 265. 

 Cummins, Wm., of Hull, merchant 



adventurer, n. 



Currey, Commander, R.N., 192. 

 Cutters, 51. 



" Dan," a, 149. 



Darling, Grace, 261. 



" Death-cheep" of the herring, 132. 



Diseases of fishes, 188. 



Dispatch, earliest English naval, 



8. 



Dogfish, 1 08. 

 Dogger Bank, the, 37. 

 Doggers, Dutch, 22. 

 Donside, the, 267. 

 Drift-bottles, 185. 

 " Dry -bottomed " craft, 107. 

 Dutch herring-fisheries, 115, 133; 



wars, 306; in the Medway, 311 ; 



at Harwich, 317; contemporary 



gun, 318. 



Earnings, fishermen's, 67, 167, 171, 



173- 



Eel-boats, Dutch, 240. 

 Eggs offish, 184. 



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