alleys, 37

_Lord of the Isles_, Greenock clipper, 153

Libyan boats in ancient Egypt, 9

M

_Madre de Dios_, Portuguese carrack, 101

_Marie la Cordeliere_, French warship, 1512..93

Maritime expedition round Africa sent out by Nekau, 24

----, ----, to land of Punt, 16, 18

----, ----, Elizabethan, 99

_See also_ NAVAL EXPEDITIONS, NAVAL WARS

Masting of warships in Tudor period, 95

Masts of ancient Egyptian boats, 13

Mediaeval ships, 65 _et seq._

Mercantile Marine of Great Britain in first half of the nineteenth
century, 145

Merchant shipping, development of, under James I., 108

----, ----, foreign, end of the sixteenth century, 101

----, ships, ancient, 38

----, ----, Elizabethan, 99, 100

----, ----, Greek, of about 500 B.C., 38

----, ----, Roman, 38

_Minerva_, first English 38-gun frigate, 129

Museums, technical, value of, 3

N

Naval battle at Lepanto, 103
----, ----, at Sluys, 74

Naval battle of La Rochelle in 1372..77

----, ----, of L'Espagnols-sur-Mer, 77

----, ----, off South Foreland in 1217..70

----, expedition, Carthaginian, against Greek colonists, 30

----, expeditions of the ancient Greeks, 29

----, ----, Persian, against Greece, 29

----, expenditure under the Commonwealth, 114

----, guns in time of Henry VIII., 95

----, power of France under Louis XIV., 118

----, war with United States in 1812..133

----, wars of the Commonwealth, 112

----, ----, of Edward III., 74

Navigation, early notions of, 5

Nekau's attempt to make a Red Sea and Nile canal, 23

----, expedition round Africa, 24

Noah's ark, account of, 6

Norman ships, 65

Norsemen, ships of, 58

O

Oars, arrangement of, in galleys of many banks, 47

----, of Greek triremes, length of, 42

----, of Venetian galleys, number of rowers to, 47

Obelisk, transport of, to Rome in 50 A.D., 39

Obelisks, size and weight of, 21

----, transport of, down Nile, 21

Ocean Herald, American clipper, 1855..150

Olaf Tryggvesson, large ship built by, 67

Overland route to India, closing of, in the fifteenth century, 92

P

Penteconters, Greek, 35

Persian naval expeditions against Greece, 29

Pett, Phineas, 104, 110, 111, 114

Phoenician galley of seventh century, 28

Phoenicians, commerce of, 26

----, origin of, 26

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