INDEX 



Boarding : by Romans, 7 ; at Sluys, 31 ; favoured 



by Spaniards, 66 ; artillery against, 185 

 Bodleian Library, nucleus of, 91 

 Bombay: Charles II, 245 



Bona Confidentia, ship : expedition to China, 235 

 Bona Speranza, ship : expedition to China, 235 

 Bonaventure, Elizabethan warship : fraudulent ac- 

 counts, 101 

 Bonaventure, Commonwealth warship : taken by 



Dutch, 123 

 Bonnets : method of increasing sail, 177, 185, 189 

 Bordeaux : wine trade, 214 ; burning by Rollo, 273 

 Borough, Steven : expedition to White Sea, 236 

 Borough, William, Elizabethan seaman : with 



Drake, 60 

 Boscanegra, Edigo, Genoese filibuster : at Sluys, 31 

 Boston : Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 

 Boulogne, French port : Roman Channel Patrol, 6 ; 

 besieged by Henry VII, 51 ; taken by English 

 (1544), 54 

 Bounties, Shipbuilding : 15th century, 185 

 Bourne, Admiral : first Dutch war, 122 

 Bowsprit, The : two in Grdce Dieu, 42 

 Brabant : Company of Merchant Adventurers, 236 

 Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex : Roman post, 7 

 Brancaster, Roman fortress at, 7 

 Brawls, Seamen's, see Seamen's Affrays 

 Brazil, William Hawkyns' voyage to, 263 

 Brazil, Discovery of: Phoenician legend, 192; by 

 Pedro Alvares Cabral, 232 ; re-discovery of, 246 ; 

 by Vicente Yanez Pinzon, 254 

 Breda, Treaty of : ends second Dutch war, 151 

 Bremen : Hanseatic League, 230 

 Brest : blockade of (1513), 53 ; in French civil wars, 



89 ; death of Frobisher, 264 

 Bridlington : in Civil War, 106 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire : dug-out found at, 166 

 Brightlingsea, Essex : relation to Cinque Ports, 18 

 Brill, Dutch town : captured by the Beggars of the 



Sea, 57 

 Bristol : Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 ; wine port, 

 213; pilgrim trade, 225; slave trade, 231; Avery's 

 return to, ~293 

 Britain, Discovery of : by the Phoenicians, 1, 192 ; 

 Pytheas's expedition, 2 ; Himileo the Cartha- 

 genian, 2 

 Britain, Early Trade : corn trade, 212 

 Britain, Invasion of, by Caesar, 5 ; by Claudius, 6 

 Britons, Early : fleet with Veneti, 2, 168 ; dug-out 

 canoes, 166 ; coracles, 168 ; Picta, 168 ; conti- 

 nental trade, 192 

 Broadside Warship : origin in galleasse, 186 

 Broom, Tromp's, legend of, 123 

 Brothers' War, The : neglect of sea power, 19 

 Buccaneers : hatred of Spain, 293 

 Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of ; against 

 Barbary corsairs, 102 ; hires fleet to France, 102 ; 

 Spanish expedition, 103 ; La Rochelle expedition, 

 103 ; assassination, 104 ; luxury afloat, 106 ; por- 

 trait, 184 

 Burgermeister of Kiel (1551) : Danes in America, 245 

 Burgh, Norfolk, Roman post at, 7 

 Burgundy, Dukedom of : powerful navy, 45 

 Buss, Ship type : development, 188 



Cables : consideration of length, 189 



Cabot, John : discovery of Asia from West, 253 ; 

 life, 253 



Cabot, Sebastian : Company of Merchant Adven- 

 turers, 236 ; portrait, 248 ; life, 254 



Cabral. Pedro Alvares, discovery of Brazil, 232 



Cadiz : attacked by English, 63, 91, 95 ; Anglo- 

 Dutch expedition (1625), 103, 109, 111 ; blockaded 

 (1656), 137 

 Cssar, Julius : conquers the Veneti, 5 ; invasion of 



Britain, 5 

 Calais: Edward Ill's siege of, 32; French siege of 

 (1436), 43 ; Earl of Warwick at, 44 ; supports 

 Thos. Neville, 45 ; lost by Q. Mary, 56 ; Armada 

 plans, 64 ; Armada fireship action, 76, 87 ; takein 

 by Spaniards, 91 

 Calicut : Da Gama's exf>edition, 232 



Callinicus : invented Greek fire, 170 



Camaret Bay, battle of (1512), 52 



Camouflage at sea, by Romans, 169 



Cana, Juan Sebastian del, circumnavigation of 

 globe, 235 



Canary Islands, unsuccessful attack on, 90 ; re- 

 discovery of, 204 



Candish, see Cavendish, Thomas 



Cannon at sea ; first mentioned at La Rochelle, 35 ; 

 reign of Henry V, 40 ; salved from Mary Rose, 

 55; early, 185; influence on design, 185, 186; 

 variety of size, 185 



Canute, King of Saxon England : succeeds Sweyn, 

 14 ; invades Norway, 14 ; giant galley, 168 



Cape Blanco, rounding of (1441), 232 



Cape Breton, Viking ship, 202 



Cape Discovery, see Cape North 



Cape North : Cabot's expedition (1497), 253 



Cape Race : Captain Grub's expedition, 263 



Capstan : weighing anchor, 189 



Caraquon, French warship, flagship of Francis I, 54 



Carausius, Marcus Aurelius : independent British 

 kingdom (a.d. 286), 6 



Cardiff, Welsh port : ships at siege of Calais, 32 



Cards, Playing (Armada), 94 



Carlingford, Irish port : Norse origin, 20 



Caroline, Fort (ill.), 270 



Carrack, Ship type, model of, 173 



Carrying Trade : Dutch v. English, 119 



Carter, Rear-Admiral : Barfleur, 154 



Carthaginian Ships : copied by Veneti, 5 ; illustra- 

 tion of, 3 



Carthaginian Trade : Roman attempts to injure, 2 



Cassiterides Islands : disputed position, 192 



Castile, Galleons of : in Spanish Armada, 65 



Catapults at Sea : use by Romans, 5 



Cathay ; existence known, 231 



Cats, English sailing ships : coal trade, 224 



Caulking : moss by Early Britons, 166 ; mortar by 

 Phoenicians, 167 



Cavalry in Sea Warfare : La Hogue, 154 



Cavendish, Thomas : expedition West, 237 ; at the 

 Ladrones (ill.), 239 ; expedition of 1586, 266 ; 

 death, 266 



Cezimbra, attacked by English, 92 



Chain Cables, used by the Veneti, 5 



Chain Pumps, introduction, 189 



Chancellor, Richard ; expedition to China, 235 ; 

 death, 236 



Channel, Battle of the (1293) : English victory, 22 



Channel Islands : Guernsey pillaged, 26 ; attacked 

 by Evan, 35 ; piratical centre, 108 



Channel Patrol, see English Channel 



Charlemagne, Emperor of the Franks : negotiations 

 with King Offa, 8 ; pilgrims, 225 



Charles I, King : Ship Money Fleet, 104 ; La 

 Rochelle, 103 ; Sovereign of the Seas, 105 ; in- 

 terest in the Navy, 106 



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