INDEX 



Charles II, King : intriguing in Commonwealth 

 126 ; restoration, 133 ; interest in Navy, 138 

 disappoints Navy^ 151 ; hires fleet to France, 151 

 encourages yachting, 191 ; slave trade, 231 

 knighthood to Morgan, 294 



Charles V, French King : apjxiints Jean de Vienne, 

 36; Magellan's offer to, 235 



Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy : maintains 

 Navy, 45 ; alliance with Edward IV, 46 



Chartering of Ships : in 13th century, 218 ; in 

 15th century, 223 



Cherbourg, burned by Earl of Huntingdon, 32 



Chester ; port for wine trade, 213 



Chinese Navigation : compass legend, 172 



Christian III, King : Danes in America, 245 



Christjern I, King : North-West Passage, 245 



Christopher, English cog : captured by French 

 (1338), 26; recapture at Sluys 



Cinque Ports: establishment of Federation, 18; 

 King John's French War, 20; raid French com- 

 merce, 25; Edward Ill's reign, 35; seamen's 

 affrays, 171 ; protection to wine fleet, 216 ; 

 piracy by Montfort, 273 



Civil War, English : Ship Money discontent, 104 ; 

 uncertainty of the fleet, 105-107 ; Bridlington, 1U6 ; 

 Royalist fleet in Holland, 107; Prince Rupert's 

 fleet, 107 ; Royalist privateers, 108 



Claudius, Roman Emperor, occupies Britain, 6 



Clerics, Fighting, with William I, 17 ; William of 

 Wrotham, 20 



Coal in England : beginning of trade, 224 ; Dick 

 Whittington story, 224 



Coast Fortresses : construction by Romans, 7 ; 

 Edward Ill's reign, 35 



Cochin ; Da Gama's expedition to, 232 ; his death, 235 



Cog, Mediaeval ship type, description, 172 



CoUieston, Aberdeenshire : Armada wreck, 81 



Colon, Cristobal, see ColumBus, Christopher 



Colour of Ships : Commonwealth decree, 105 



Columbus, Christopher : life, 246 ; portrait, 248 ; 

 " C. and the Egg" (ill.), 249; in the West 

 Indies, 251 ; death, 252 



Company of Merchant Adventurers : expedition to 

 China, 235 ; charter granted to, 236 ; antagonistic 

 to East India Co., 236; Sebastian Cabot, life 

 governor, 254 



Company of Royal Adventurers, charter of, 231 



Commerce Destruction: Blake's methods, 120; 

 French, in peace-time, 126. See also Piracy, 

 Encouragement of, and Privateer* 



Commonwealth Navy, British : organization, 107 ; 

 victualling reforms, 189 



Compass, The, origin of, 171 



Constantinople, view of, 221 



Constantius Chlorus, attacks Carausius, 7 



Copenhagen, Danes' sacking of 229 



Coracles, Early British, 168 



Cordeliere, French warship, see Marie La Cordeliere 



Cormac Macart, Irish explorer : three years' cruise 

 (A.D. 222), 92 



Coronation, 90-gun ship (1686), 197 



Corrupt Naval Administration : under James I, 101 ; 

 Charles I, 106 ; Commonwealth, 108 ; victualling 

 (q-v.), 189 



Corunna, rendezvous of Armada, 66 ; attacked by 

 Drake and Norrys, 88 ; blockaded by Monson, 92 



Count of the Saxon Shore, Roman office : establish- 

 ment, 6 ; failure to check pirates, 6, 7 



Cromwell, Oliver : relations with Dutch, 119 ; 

 loyalty to Blake, 123, 137 ; imposes terms on 

 Dutch, 126; death, 138; portrait, 195 



Crusades: effect on trade, 214; Richard I's, 215 



Cuba, taken by Columbus, 251 



Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of : privateering 



ventures, 60, 88 ; last voyage and death, 92 ; East 



India Company, 243 ; portrait, 278 

 Curzola, Battle of : Marco Polo, 211 

 Customs : James I's reign, 230 

 Cyzicus, Battle of, 170 



Damme, Battle of, 20 



Dampier, Captain William : portrait, 291 ; career, 



294-5 

 Danegeld : levied by /Ethelred, 13 ; remitted by 



Stephen, 20 

 Danish Invasion : /Ethelred defeated, 13 ; Norman 



England, 18 

 Danish Letters of Marque, Dampier sails with, 295 

 D'.Annebaut, Claude, French Admiral, attacks 



Portsmouth (1545), 54 

 Dardanelles : battle in 1646 (ill.), 277 

 Dartmouth : ships at siege of Calais, 32 

 Dartmouth, Admiral Lord, joins William III, 152 

 Davis, John: expeditions to North-West, 264; 



death, 264 

 Davis Suaits, 264 

 De Bove, Sir Hugh, Norman adventurer, invaded 



England, 21 

 De Br^ze, Pierre, Seneschal of Normandy, raids 



England (1457), 43 

 De Burgh, Hubert, defeats Eustace the Monk, 21 ; 



ships of, 172 

 De Champlain, visit to Massachusetts (1604), 271 

 De la Cerda, Don Carlos, Spanish corsair, defeated 



at Winchelsea, 32 

 De Ruyter, Michiel : off Plymouth, 116, 121 ; re- 

 places Tromp, 121 ; Kentish Knock, 122 ; Dunge- 



ness, 122; Four Days' Fight, 140; St. James's 



Dav, 140 ; portrait, 149 ; Solebay, 151 ; the Texel, 



152 

 De Vienne, Jean, French corsair, life, 35 ; death at 



Crusade, 39 

 De With, Admiral, joins De Ruyter, 122 ; with 



Tromp, 125 

 Deane, Admiral : first Dutch War, 123 ; killed, 124 

 Deane, Sir Anthony : ship designs, 190 

 Death Sentence, by assassination, 6 

 Decoration of Ships, extravagant Stuart, 105, 113; 



17th cent. Dutch, 196 

 Decoy Ships, Viking, 168 



Delavall, Vice-Admiral Sir Ralph : La Hogue, 154 

 Denham, Sir John, with Warwick at sea, 44 

 Denmark : friendship with Holland, 119, 122 

 Deserters, Naval, apprehension of, 20 ; help the 



Dutch, 124, 151 

 Desire, ship, in Cavendish's expedition of 1586, 266 

 D'Estr^es, French admiral, third Dutch War, 151 

 Dias, Enrique, woodcut from voyage and wreck of 



St. Paul, 296 

 Diaz, Bartholomew, expedition to S. Africa, 232 

 Dieppe, bombardment of (1694), 161 

 Dingle Bay, Spanish landing in, 59 

 Discipline, Naval, in Henry VI I I's time, 53 ; Stuart 



period, 189 

 Discovery : history of early, 192 ; relation to trade, 



192 

 Discovery, Hudson's expedition of 1610, 271 

 Disdain, Elizabethan pinnace, defies Armada, 85 

 Dockyards, Medisevai : Rouen, 36 

 Dogger, Ship type : development, 188 

 Dominica, Columbus's voyage (1493), 287 

 Doria, Andrea, war against Turks (1537), 280 

 Doria, Giovanni, battle of Lepanto, 281 

 Dorsetshire, first Viking raid, 11 



299 



