Commerce,"
vol. ii. p. 4.

[16] The details, as related by various authorities, differ slightly.

[17] According to some accounts there were 1,497 bronze and 934 iron
guns of all calibres.

INDEX.

A

Aberdeen clippers, 153

_Acasta_, first English 40-gun frigate, 131

_Adventure_, first genuine English frigate, 128

_Alarm_, first copper-sheathed frigate, 128

Alfred the Great founds English Navy, 56

American clipper, the _Great Republic_, 1853..150

----, ----, the _Ocean Herald_, 1855..150

----, clippers, speeds attained by, 150

----, cotton-ship, the _Bazaar_, 148, 149

----, frigates, superiority of, in 1812..133

----, transatlantic sailing-packet the _Sir John Franklin_, 1840..148

Anchors, first use of capstans for weighing, 101

_Ark_, Elizabethan warship, 98

Ark, Noah's, account of, 6

Armada, Spanish, account of, 97

Artillery, effect of introduction on designs of ships, 77

----, first use of, by Venetians on board ship, 77

----, first use of, in naval warfare, 76, 77. _See also_ GUNS

_Artois_ and _Aigle_, French frigates of 1781, dimensions of, 129

Athenian docks, dimensions of, 41

_Aurore_, French frigate of 1757, dimensions of, 128

B

Baltimore clippers, 147

Barge, Egyptian, used for transporting obelisks down Nile, 21

_Bazaar_, American cotton-ship, 148, 149

Bireme, Greek, of about 500 B.C., 31

----, ----, of about 800 B.C., 157.

----, Roman, 44

_See also_ GALLEYS

Boat, Egyptian, of the third dynasty, 12

----, ----, of the fourth dynasty, 14

Boats, Egyptian, in time of Herodotus, 24

----, ----, of the sixth dynasty, 14

----, ----, of the twelfth dynasty now in existence, 25

----, of the ancient Britons, 55

Bomb-ketches, introduction of, 118

_Brilliant_, English frigate of 1757, dimensions of, 128

_Britannia_, warship of Charles II., 114, 116

Britons, boats of, 55

Buccas, or busses, 67

C

Cabins, first mention of, on English ships, 73

Cables, use of, for girding ancient ships, 52

Cabot's voyages to America, 89

_Cairngorm_, clipper, 153

_Caledonia_, English first-rate of 1805..133

Canynge of Bristol, shipowner of the fifteenth century, 84

Capstans first used for weighing anchors, 101

Caravels, 84, 88, 91

Carracks in the fifteenth century, 81

----, in the sixteenth ce