Wilhelm_, 104

_Lady of the Lake_, 79

Lamport and Holt Line, 109

Langton, Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, 55

Leggatt (of _Crane_), 99

Leghorn, 181

_Leviathan_, 135

Leyland Line, 117, 118, 119

Liege, 27

Lightships, 57, 91-96
Gull Lightship, 53, 89, 93, 96
Ostend Lightship, 92
Royal Sovereign Lightship, 95
Shambles Lightship, 95
South Goodwin Lightship, 95

_Linn_ ("frigot"), 204

Liver Buildings, 49, 247

Liverpool, 62, 69, 78, 103, 116, 135, 245, 249

_Lobelia_, 100

London, 89, 213

Louis XIV, of France, 91

Lowestoft, 90

_Lusitania_, 164, 173, 253

MALAY pirates, 165

_Maloja_, 95

Malta, 126, 128, 132, 182

Manchester, 124

_Manchester Commerce_, 164

Manhattan, 223

"Manual on Seamanship," 144

Marconi, 123

Marconi Company, 110

_Marechal de Villars_, 82

_Margaret_, 15

_Mariston_, 173

Maritime Code, 54 _seq._

_Marmion_, 191, 192, 211

Marseilles, 128, 131, 132

_Mary Rose_, 178

_Massilia_, 186, 210

_Mayflower_, 236

Mayo, Walter H., xiii

Meadowside, 140

Mediterranean, 30, 114, 127, 128, 178, 182, 196

_Melampus_, 253

Merchant Adventurers, 4, 5

Merchants' Service:
Growth, 3-5;
parent of Navy, 6, 18;
Imperial significance, xii, 10, 12, 14, 15, 126;
unrecognized work, 10, 46 _seq._;
educational function, 11;
introduction of steamships, 11, 12, 13;
international supremacy, 12, 13;
outbreak of Great War, 14, 24, 163;
submarine piracy, 17, 18 _seq._, 51, 177, _passim_;
arming of, 19, 37 _seq._, 113-5;
differences with Navy, 7, 21-25;
reconciliation, 25 _seq._;
liaison with Navy, 14, 18-19, 21-43, 120-3, 134, 191, 197, 199-203,
255-6 _passim_;
commerce-raiders, 28, 51;
Naval War Staff, 30 _seq._;
transporting of troops, 14, 30 _seq._, 44, 45, 125-40, 223, 224-51;
popular recognition of, and the longshore view, 46 _seq._, 254;
discipline, 64, 68-71;
wanted, a Ministry of Marine, 66;
manning, 68-73;
German _Schrecklichkeit_, 72, 73, 80-85, 92, 173, 203, 209;
coastal Services, 77-86;
war-time navigation, 85-6, 87-95;
traditions, 4, 5, 9-13, 23, 98, 99-100;
signals and wireless, 110-3, 120-4, 169-70, 191;
destroyer escort, 29-30, 126-8, 178, 203, 235;
torpedoing of a transport, 137-40, 237-40;
camouflage a