INDEX 



Pirates in English Waters : Roman measures 

 against, 6, 7 ; Scottish in Roman times, 7 ; no 

 quarter for Norsemen, 13; from Cinque Ports, 

 18; Edward Ill's reign, 26; Henry IV's reign, 

 39; Earl of Warwiclc, 44; Andrew Barton, 51; 

 encouraged by Emperor, 55; in Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, 56, 182 ; Barbary corsairs, 102, 104 ; 

 Commonwealth, 108 

 Plague, The Great : hampers naval operations, 139 

 Plunder at Sea : 14th cent, wine trade, 216 

 Plymouth : ships in Aquitaine expedition, 43 ; pro- 

 posed Armada attack, 66 ; Ayscue V. de Ruyter, 



116 

 Polain, French galley leader, see Esclain 

 Pole, William Hawkyns' ship: voyage to Brazil 



(1530), 263 

 Polo, Marco, Venetian traveller : journey to Pekin, 



204; battle of Curzola, 211; (ills.), 205, 207 

 Pooping, Mediterranean fear of, 167 

 Pondicherry, India, 244 



Porchester, Hampshire, Roman fortress at, 7 

 Portland, Three Days' Fight off, 118 

 Portsmouth : Roman use of, 7 ; burned by French 

 (1337), 26 ; Boscanegra's part, 31 ; action off 

 (1545), 49, 54 ; docl^yard established, 51, 187 

 Portugal, Armada of, in Spanish Armada (1588), 65 

 Portuguese Discovery of America before Columbus, 



245 

 Portuguese Eastern Empire, 119 ; 235, 236 

 Portzmoquer, French captain, see Primoquet 

 Pothurst, Admiral, expedition to America, 245 

 Poynings, Sir Edward, defeats Ravenstein, 51 

 Pregent, French admiral, 53 

 Prevesa, Battle of (1538), 280 

 Primoquet, French captain, at Camaret Bay, 53 

 Prince, British warship, built 1670, model, 94 

 Prisoners of War, mediaeval treatment of, 32 ; 



Spanish in Ireland, 59 

 Privateers, English : Earl of Cumberland, 60 ; 

 after Armada, 88, 90 ; in E. Indies, 102 ; against 

 Dutch, 120 

 Privateers, French : in peace-time, 126 ; after Bar- 



fleur, 165 

 Privateers, Piracy by : in French religious wars, 



56; Elizabethan, 59; James I's reign, 102 

 Prizes of Armed Merchant Ships, 14th cent., 217 

 Ptolemy, map of world, 210 

 Ptolemy Philopator, gigantic yacht, 166 

 Pulo Pinaou Islands, Lancaster's expedition (1591), 



238 

 Pumps : difficulties before, 172 ; chain type, 189 

 Pytheas, Greek navigator, 2 



Quarter Galleries, 17th cent. Dutch, 196 

 Quicklime, use in sea fighting, 22 

 Quinquereme, galley type, probable detail, 169 



Rainborow, Colonel, rejected by fleet, 107 

 Raleigh, Sir Walter : privateering ventures, 60, 88 ; 

 voyage to the Indies, 91 ; enmity with Essex, 

 92 ; nautical writing, 189 ; at Trinidad, 256 ; por- 

 trait, 257 ; attempt to colonize Virginia, 266 

 Ras de Catteville, Norman reef, the White Ship, 19 

 Rating of Warships, under William III, 191 

 Ravenstein, Philip von Kleve, piratical activities, 51 

 Real, Joao Vaz Corte, discovery of Azores, 245 

 Recalde, Admiral Juan Martinez de, 65, 85 

 Reculver, The, Roman fortress, 7 

 Red Dragon (ex Mare Scourge), ship. East India 

 expedition (1601), 243; battle of Swally Hole, 244 

 Regent, English warship (1489), battle of Camaret 

 Bay, 52 ; armament, 185 



Repairs, Ship : mediaeval methods, 187 

 Restoration, The: naval part in, 138; feeling after, 



190 

 Retz, Baron de, French admiral, see D'Annebaut, 



Claude 

 Revenge, Elizabethan warship: Drake's flag against 



Armada, 65 ; captures Rosario, 71, 85 ; last fight, 



83, 88 

 Revenge, Dampier's ship : circumnavigation of 



globe, 295 

 Rhine, Mouth of the, French designs on, 151 

 Rhodes : eviction of Knights Hospitallers, 280 

 Richard I, English King, Laws of Oleron, 170 

 Richard II, English King, invades France, 30 ; 



against De Vienne, 36 

 Richard III, English King, enlarges Navy, 46 

 Richborugh, Kent, Roman fortress, 7 ; early trade, 



212 

 Robert, Duke of Normandy, invades England, 19 

 Rognvald, Earl, 203 



Roebuck, British ship, in Dampier's exploration, 



295 

 Rollo, Norman corsair, ravage of French coast, 



273 ; conversion to Christianity, 273 

 Roman Invasion of Britain : by Caesar, 45 ; by 



Claudius, 6 ; the evacuation, 7 

 Roman Ships, illustrations of, 3, 4, 163 

 Romans : policy at sea, 7 ; coast fortresses, 7 ; 



Channel patrol, 6 

 Romney, Kent : opposition to Norman Conquest, 



17 ; a Cinque Port, 18 

 Romney Marsh, Roman defence of, 7 

 Rooke, Admiral Sir George, La Hogue, 154 ; Levant 



convoy disaster, 165 

 Rouen, French dockyard at, 36 ; wine trade, 214 

 Rowing : Viking method, 168 ; arrangement of 



banks, 169 

 Royal African Assiento Company : slave trade, 231 

 Royal Charles, British warship, 151, 198 

 Royal James, destroyed at Solebay, 151 

 Royal Marines, at Solebay, 152 

 Rudders, introduction of, 185 

 Rum Cay : Columbus' expedition (1492), 251 

 " Running the Gauntlet," sea punishment, 187 

 Rupert, Prince : corsair cruise, 107 ; under Duke of 



York, 138 ; battle of Lowestoft, 139 ; Four Days' 



Fight, 139 ; St. James's Day, 140 ; portrai, 141 ; 



third Dutch War, 152 

 Russell, Admiral, at Barfleur, 154 ; in Mediter- 

 ranean, 165 

 Russian Company, Tudors' policy to, 238 

 Rutt, John, expedition to American mainland, 263 

 Rye, Sussex, relation to Cinque Ports, 18 

 Ryswick, Peace of (1697), 165 



Sails, Decoration of, Elizabethan, 178 



Saint Brendan's Land, 246 



St. James's Day Fight (1666), 135, 140 



St. Martin's Day, 229 



St. Nicholas' Day : Lenten cargoes, 229 



St. Vincent, Cape Verde : taken by William Parker, 



90 

 Salee Pirates, see Barbary corsairs 

 Salisbury, Earl of, at battle of Damme (1213), 21 

 Salisbury, Earl of, contracts Channel Patrol (1454), 



45 

 Saltash : ships in Aquitaine expedition (1439), 43 

 Salute to the Flag, from Philip of Spain, 55 

 Salvage of Sunken Ships : Mary Rose, 54 

 Sampson, ship, expedition to America (1527), 263 

 Sampson, Commonwealth man-of-war, sunk by 

 Dutch, 123 



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