INDEX 



Fitzstephen, Thomas, mariner, wrecks the White 

 Ship (1120), 19 



Fitzwilliam, Sir William, Vice-Admiral, fails against 

 Scots (1523), 54 



Flag, Respect to the British : demanded of Spain, 

 55; starts Dutch War, 120 



Flanders : help at siege of Calais, 32 ; piracy encour- 

 aged, 55; seamen's affrays, 171 



Flemish Mercenaries : Don Carlos de la Cerda, 32 



Flemyng, Thomas, Elizabethan seaman, sights 

 Armada, 66 



Flogging : constant punishment, 187, 190 ; for fair 

 wind, 190 



Florida: discovery by Huguenots (ill-), 260; see also 



270 



Flotsam and Jetsam, Cinque Ports' rights of, 18 



Forecastle : illustration of mediaeval, 175 ; early guns 

 on, 185 ; development of, 186, 187 



Forth, Firth of : naval operations (1544), 54 ; 

 Wynter's campaign, 56 



Fortunate Isles, see Canary Islands ; Atlantis 



Four Days' Fight, of North Foreland (1666), 132, 



133, 134 



Fowey ; Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 



France, English Invasions of : by Richard II (1379), 

 30; by Edward III, 31; by Henry V, 41; bv 

 Henry VI, 43; by Edward IV, 46; by Henry VII, 

 51; by Henry VIIl, 52 



Francis I, French King, war with England, 54 



Francis II, King of France, at war with Elizabeth, 



56 



Francis, ship ; expedition of 1582, 237 



French Coast, English Raids on, by Earl of Hunt- 

 ingdon, 31 ; reign of Henry IV, 39 ; reign of 

 Henry VIII, 53, 54; reign of Queen Mary, 56 



French Raids on English Coasts: in Henry Ill's 

 reign, 22; Edward I's reign, 22; Nicolas Behuchet, 

 26 ; sack of Gravesend, 30 ; sack of Winchelsea, 

 32 ; Jean de Vienne, 36 ; reign of Henry IV, 39 ; 

 reign of Henry V, 41 ; Pierre de Brfeze, 43 ; by 

 Pregent, 53 



French Ships : designs copied by English, 191 ; 

 (ill.), 199 



French Trade : East India Company, 244 



Frobisher, Martin, Elizabethan seaman : Armada, 

 85 ; privateering, 88 ; killed at Brest, 89 ; portrait, 

 257 ; North-West passage expedition, 264 ; death, 



264 



Frobisher Bay, 264 



Gabrielle, ship, North-West passage expedition, 264 



Galleasse, origin of, 186 



Galleon, origin of, 186 



Galley Slaves : endurance of, 169 ; treatment of, 279 



Galleys: in Roman invasion, 5; Henry VIII's, 53; 



unsuitability for rough water, 97 ; Phoenician, 167 ; 



speed of 167 ; Viking, 167 ; arrangement of oars, 



169; Henry Ill's, 172; Richard I's Crusade 



transports, 216 

 Gama, Vasco da : explorations of, 232 ; discovery of 



Cape route, 226; death, 235 

 Gambling at Sea, Spanish punishment for, 187 

 Gapland, Commonwealth warship, taken by Dutch, 



123 

 Gascony : wine trade, 214 

 Genoa : shipbuilding progress, 186 

 Genoese Mercenaries: hired by Edward III, 26; at 



Sluys, 31 ; Boscanegra, 31 ; against Henry V, 41 ; 



separate peace with Henry V, 42 

 Gentlemen Adventurers, hardships shared by, 106 

 George, ship : North-East passage, 237 

 German Traders, early, in England, 229 



Germany : exploration by Pytheas, 2 



Gibraltar, Hispano-Dutch action off, 100 



Girdling ships, necessity of, 191 



Goddar Svarvarson, see Svarvarson 



Gokstad, Norway : Viking ship, 11, 164, 167, 202 



Gold, Export of : drain by smugglers, 165 



Golden Devil, see Sovereign of the Seas 



Golden Hind, Elizabethan ship : warning of Armada, 



66; Drake's expedition (1577), 265 

 Good Friday : Winetha legend, 229 

 Goodwin Sands, Barton defeated off, 51 

 Gosnold, Bartholomew, visited Massachusetts (1602), 



271 

 Gotland, submits to King Arthur, 1, 8 

 Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, see 



Massachusetts, 271 

 Grdce Dieu, 15th cent. Hull merchantman, 185 

 Grdce Dieu, Henry V's warship, description, 42 

 Grand Banks : Basques fishing, 204 ; blunder by 



Mainwaring, 282 

 Gravelines, French port : naval assistance in land 

 battle, 56 ; Armada action off, 78, 87 ; Hispano- 

 Dutch action off, 99 

 Gravesend, sacked by French (1380), 30 

 Great Elizabeth, Tudor warship : guns in tops, 185 

 Great Harry, Tudor warship : illustration (frontis- 

 piece), 179 ; building of, 187 

 Great Michael, Scottish warship, description of, 52 

 Greek Fire : description, 170 ; method of use, 170, 



185 

 Greene, Henry: Hudson's expedition of 1610, 271 

 Greenland : colonization of, 202 ; Irish legend, 201 ; 



Erik the Red, 201 ; Christianity in, 202 

 Greenwich Hospital, foundation of, 165 

 Grenville, Sir Richard (or Greynville) : last fight of 



the Revenge, 89 ; portrait, 93 

 Grey, Lady Jane, deserted by Navy, 55 

 Grube, Captain, expedition to America, 263 

 Guernsey, pillaged by French (1337), 26 

 Guest, in East Indian expedition, 243 

 Guienne, lost after La Rochelle, 35 

 Guipuzcoa, .\rmada of, 65 

 Gunports : Spanish too small (1588), 66; Deanc's 



improvements, 190 

 Guns, Naval, see Cannon at Sea 



Half Moon: Hudson's expedition in 1609, 271 



Hamburg : Hanseatic League, 230 



Hamburg Company, 236; Tudors' policy to, 238 



Hampden, John, opposes Ship Money, 104 



Hanseatic Cities, dues of, 229 



Hanseatic League : fleet taken by Warwick, 44 ; help 

 to Spanish Armada, 65; in 13th cent., 226; 

 early days, 226 ; Lenten cargoes, 229 ; settlement 

 in England, 230 ; expulsion from England, 230 ; 

 suppression of Victualling Brothers, 274 



Harek of Thjotta, Viking, piracy in 1018, 168 



Harfleur, French port: Evan's pirate fleet at, 35; 

 captured by Henry V, 41 ; attempted recapture, 41 



Harold, King, maintains a sea patrol, 14 ; ship- 

 wrecked in Normandy, 15 ; defends his throne, 15 



Harold Hardrada, King of Norway, invades Eng- 

 land, 15 



Harwich, Caroline warship, copied from French, 191 



Hastings, Viking leader, invasion of England, 13 



Hastings, Sussex, Cinque Port, 18 ; raided by 

 French (1338), 26 



Havre, French port: Francis I's base, 54; ceded 

 to Elizabeth, 59 ; attacked by Penington (1625), 103 



Hawkyns, Sir John, Elizabethan seaman : Armada, 

 85 ; last cruise, 90 ; slave trade, 230, 263 ; portrait, 

 257 ; comptroller of Navy, 263 ; death, 263 



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