INDEX 



Admiral of England : disputed jurisdiction over 

 Cinque Ports, 18 



Admiralty, Secretary of the : genesis of office, 20 



/Ethelred, Saxon King : misunderstanding of sea 

 power, 13 ; opposes Canute, 14 



African Coast : expeditions to, 232 ; map of West 

 Coast, 233 



Aftercastles, see Forecastles 



Agricola, Roman Emperor : circumnavigates Britain, 6 



Aid, British ship : expedition for gold, 264 



Aids to Navigation, early, 188 



Albany, Duke of. Regent of Scotland : French naval 

 service, 54 ; invasion plans, 54 



Alexander VI, Pope : Bull granted to Spain, 251 



Alexandria, lighthouse at, 188 



Alfonso d 'Albuquerque, 235 



Alfred, Saxon King: organises a fleet, 12; designs 

 his own ships, 12 ; portrait, 9 ; translation of 

 Other's travels, 203 ; carrying trade, 213 



Algiers, Siege of (1662), 284 



Ambon, East Indies, see Amboyna 



Amboyna, East Indies, massacre at, 119, 244 



America, Central, map, 259 



America, Discovery of : Phoenician legend, 192 ; Irish 

 claim to, 201 ; Norse discovery of, 202 ; Danes and 

 Portuguese in, 245 



" Ancient Towns," affiliated with Cinque Ports, 18 



Andalusia, Ships of, in Spanish Armada, 65 



Andrea Doria, see Doria 



Anne Royal, British warship : Cadiz Expedition, 

 109. See also Ark Royal 



Antigua, foundation of, 231 



Antwerp, captured by French, 151 



Appleton, Admiral, deserts Badiley, 121 



Aquitaine, invasion of (1439), 43 



Arab Navigation : compass legend, 172 



Arctic Discovery, by Pytheas, 2 



Arctic Voyages : Nicholas of Lynn, 204 



Argall, Captain, in Virginia, 267 



Ark Royal, Elizabethan warship, 85, 178 



Armada, The Spanish, 1588 : origin of, 60 ; first 

 plan of, 63; changes of plan, 64; English defences 

 against, 64 ; composition of, 65 ; English fleet, 65 ; 

 leaves Lisbon, 66 ; leaves Corunna, 66 ; prepara- 

 tions for a second, 88, 91 



Armed Merchant Ships : use by Norman kings, 25 ; 

 at siege of Calais, 32 ; guarantee of behaviour 

 (1413), 40 ; misbehaviour treason, 41 ; maintain 

 Channel Patrol, 45 ; Burgundian navy, 45 ; 

 Edward IV's navy, 46 ; Elizabeth's navy, 56 ; 

 against Armada, 65, 86 ; attack on Havre (1625), 

 103 ; Norman period, 216 ; control in 15th century, 

 217 ; terms of hire, 14th and 15th cent., 217 



Arthur, King, at sea, 8 



Arundel, Earl of : Company of Merchant Adven- 

 turers, 236 



Ascension, Sinking of Revenge, 295 



Ascension, ship, in East Indian Expedition, 243 



Ash, seaport : Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 



Athelstan, Saxon King : builds a navy, 12 ; mer- 

 chants, 213 



Atlantis, legend about, 246 



Avalon, see Atlantis 



Avery, John : piratical methods, 293 ; portrait, 292 



Ayscue, Admiral, 116, 120, 121 



Azores : Drake's expedition (1587), 63 ; the Revenge, 



89 ; voyage to the Indies, 92 ; colonization of, 



232 ; Portuguese discovery of, 245 



Bacon, Roger, and mariner's compass, 172 

 Badiley, Admiral, in Mediterranean, 121 

 Balboa, first to reach Pacific 253 

 Balearic Islands ravaged by Barbarossa, 280 

 Bantam, capture of, 1684 (ill.), 242 

 Bantry, Battle of, 153 

 Barbados, foundation of, 231 



Barbarossas, Brothers, see Uruj and Khair-ed-Din 

 Barbary Corsairs : in English waters, 102, 104 ; 

 Anglo-Spanish expedition, 102 ; Duke of Bucking- 

 ham against, 102 ; checked by Commonwealth, 

 108 ; Anglo-Dutch scheme, 138 ; in Mediter- 

 ranean, 274, 279 

 Barfleur, French port : the White Ship, 19 ; battle 



of, 154, 159 

 Barnstaple : Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 

 Bart, Jean, boarding Dutch ship (ill.), 290 ; por- 

 trait, 291 

 Barton, Andrew, Scottish pirate : defeat and death,51 

 Basilisk, early gun, mounted in Great Michael, 52 

 Basques, Exploration by : Grand Banks, 204 

 Batten, Sir William, Parliamentary seaman : in 

 Civil War, 106 ; attempt to supersede, 107 ; deserts 

 to Royalists, 107 

 Bayonne, French port : help at siege of Calais, 32 ; 

 builds English warships, 40 ; seamen's affrays, 

 171 ; protection to wine fleet, 216 

 Bazan, Alonzo de, Spanish Admiral : last fight of 



the Revenge, 89 

 Beachy Head, Battle of, 153, 158 

 Beggars of the Sea : capture Brill (1572), 57 ; aims 



and work, 281 

 Behuchet, Nicholas, French knight : burns Ports- 

 mouth, 26 ; hanged after Sluys, 31 

 Bergen, Hanseatic centre : view, 220 

 Bertha of France : trade effect of marriage, 212 

 Biarni Heriulfsson, Viking, see Heriulfsson 

 Bideford : Aquitaine expedition, 43 

 Billingsgate : wine trade, 213 

 Bireme, model of, 163 

 Biscay : in Spanish Armada, 65 

 Black Prince, The : fighting at sea, 32 

 Blackbeard, see Boscanegra, Edigo 

 Blake, Robert : against Prince Rupert, 107 ; in 

 Mediterranean, 108; against Jersey pirates, 108 

 action off Dover, 120 ; against Dutch commerce 

 120 ; against French, 121 ; Kentish Knock, 122 

 resignation refused, 123 ; Three Days' Fight, 123 

 friendship with Tromp, 125 ; Mediterranean expe 

 dition (1654), 126 ; portrait, 136 ; character, 138 

 death after Santa Cruz, 137 

 Blanche Nef, La, wrecked (1120), 19 

 Blasphemy, laws of Oleron, 171 ; in Armada, 64 

 Blessing of the Bay, American ship : launch, 272 

 Blockade of French Ports, by Henry III, 22 

 Blocking Operations : first at Calais (1436), 43 

 Blood Eagle, Viking torture, 11 



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