INDEX 



Doughty, Thomas, Drake's lieutenant, execution of, 



265 



Dover : Roman Fortress at, 7, 188 ; a Cinque Port, 

 18 ; resists P'rench (1216), 21 ; burned by French, 

 25; Henry Vll's base, 51; Henry VHI embarks, 

 50 ; Hispano-Dutch action off, 97 ; Anglo-Dutch 

 action (1652), 117, 120 ; bombarded by Tromp, 124 



Downs, The, Hispano-Dutch battle (1639), 105, 114, 

 115 ; start of Dutch War, 120-121 ; batteries, 121, 



123 



Drake, Sir Francis, singes the King of Spain's 

 Beard, 60 ; squadron against Armada, 65, 85 ; 

 portrait, 82 ; with Dom Antonio, 88 ; last cruise 

 of, 90 ; at Hispaniola, 255 ; medal commemo- 

 rating voyages, 255 ; at River Plate, 256 ; life, 

 264 ; with Hawkins at Vera Cruz, 264 



Draught of Warships, limited by order (1618), 190 ; 

 uncertainty before Deane, 190. 



Dromonds, Richard I's Crusade transports, 215 



Dry Docks, early system, 187 



Du Rieux, French knight, descent on Wales (1405), 



38 



Dug-out, Prehistoric, examples discovered, 166 ; 

 Phoenician, 167 



Duguay Trouin, French corsair, captures Nonsuch, 



162 



Dunegate, wine trade, 214 



Dungeness, battle of, 123 ; lighthouse, 188 



Dunkirk : in Armada plans, 64 ; privateers, 104, 

 108; taken by Spanish 121 



Dutch Carrying Trade, beginning of, 224 



Dutch, Combined Operations with the : capture of 

 Brill, 57 ; Cadiz expedition, 91 ; with Monson, 92 

 Straits of Malacca, 98; Gravelines (1603), 99 

 Cadiz expedition (1625), 103; La Rochelle, 103 

 Barbary corsairs, 138 ; war of English Succes- 

 sion, 153 



Dutch East India Company, Hudson's expedition 

 for (1609), 271 



Dutch Eastern Empire : against Portuguese, 119 ; 

 against English, 102, 119 ; Amboyna Massacre, 

 119 ; foundation of Indian Empire, 237 



Dutch Fishing Industry : in English waters, 104, 

 119; first Dutch War, 120 



Dutch Navy, political canker in, 121, 124 



Dutch Shipbuilding : French warships, 104 ; warship 

 design, 126; 17th cent, ships (ill.), 196 



Dutch War, First : causes of, 119 ; tactics, 124 ; 

 costly blockade 125; end, 126 



Dutch War, Second : beginning, 138 ; French inter- 

 vention, 139, 140, 151 ; Peace of Breda, 151 



Dutch War, Third : beginning, 151 ; Britain with- 

 draws 152 



Dutch Warships typical 17th cent., 182 



East India Company : foundation, 238 ; Dutch and 

 Portuguese rivalry, 102 ; Robert Blake an agent, 

 137 ; monopoly from Queen (1600), 243 ; first ex- 

 pedition, 243 ; received by Great Mogul, 244 ; 

 James I, 244; New East India Company, 244; 

 French East India Company, 244 

 East Indiamen : slave trade, 231 

 Easter Day, Winetha legend, 229 

 Edgar, King : claim to be King of the Seas, 13 ; 



rowed by the Seven Kings, 13 

 Edinburgh, plundered by Lord Lisle, 54 

 Edmund Ironside, Saxon Prince, defies Canute, 14 

 Edward, English cog, captured by French, 26 

 Edward III, King: misuse of sea power, 25, 35; 

 portrait, 27 ; battle off Winchelsea, 32 ; wine 

 trade, 216 



Edward IV, King : invades France, 46 ; encourages 



the Navy, 46 

 Edward VI, King, Hanseatic League, 230 

 Edward the Confessor, King ; tieet maintained by 



Harold, 14 

 Ediuard Bonaventure, ship : expedition to China, 



235 ; wrecked, 236 ; expedition of 1582, 237 ; James 



Lancaster expedition (1591), 238 

 Egbert, King : merchantmen, 213 

 Egyptians at Sea : Ptolemy's yacht, 167 

 Elba, Island of, action off (1652), 121 

 Elchere, Saxon alderman, leads a fleet, 12 

 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, obtains Laws of 



Oleron, 170 

 Elizabeth, Queen : immediate naval activity, 56 ; por- 

 trait, 58 ; vacillating policy, 91 ; expulsion of 



Hanseatic League, 230 ; Company of Merchant 



Adventurers, 236 ; death, 101 

 Elizabeth, ship : expedition of 1582, 237 ; expedition 



of 1587, 264 

 Elizabethan Warships : typical, 181 ; improvements 



in design, 189 

 Ellen, ship, Davis's expedition, 264 

 Enemy Ships Captured ; reward to captors, 45 ; 



English goods in, 45 ; Burgundian Navy, 45 

 English Channel, Patrol of : under Romans, 6, 7 ; 



Earl Harold, 15 ; by Cinque Ports (g.i'.), 18 ; 



by Henry I, 19; technical difficulties, 25; neglect 



by Edward III, 26; put out to contract, 36, 45; 



by Henry V, 41-42 

 English Succession, War of the, beginning of, 152 

 Erik of Pomerania : Portuguese and North-West 



Passage, 245 

 Erik the Red, discovery of Greenland, 202 

 Erith : building of Great Harry, 187 

 Esclain, Antoine, French admiral, attack on Ports- 

 mouth (1545), 54 

 Essex, Earl of, attacks Cadiz, 91 ; voyage to the 



Indies, 91 ; enmity with Raleigh, 92 

 Ethelbert, King : Saxon commerce, 212 

 Ethelred, King, see ALthehed 

 Ethelred II, English King : wine trade, 213 

 Euphrates, River : earliest navigation on, 1 

 Eustace the Monk : takes to the sea, 20 ; invades 



England, 21 ; execution, 22 

 Evan, Welsn piiate, allied to French, 35 

 Evertsen, Jan, first Dutch War, 122 

 Exeter (city of) ; Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 

 Exeter, Duke of, leads Lancastrian fleet, 44 

 Exploration : Henry the Navigator, 231 ; Danes in 



America, 245 

 Explorers, Irish : Cormac Mac.Art, 192 ; sons of 



Ua Corra, 201 



Fairhaven Bay : identity questioned, 2 



Faro : taken by English (1596), 91 



Faroe Islands : Irish colonization, 201 



Fenton, Edward : British expedition (1582), 237 



Ferrol : Armada of 1597, 91 ; blockaded by Monson, 



92 



Feudal System : effect of end on Navy, 4fi 



Field of the Cloth of Gold: Henry VIII's embarca- 

 tjon, 50 



Fire at Sea : Greek Fire, 170 



Fireships : use against Armada, 7P 



Fishing Boats, early types, 188 



Fishing Industry: denuded by Tudor Navy, 55; Ice- 

 landic expeditions, 56 ; Icelandic fishing, 15th 

 rent., 225 



Fitzstephen, Robert, Norman knight, invades Ice- 

 land, 20 



300 



