Rae, W. F.: his account of California, i. 158;
the Rocky Mountains, iv. 21
Rae, Dr.: relics of Franklin’s last voyage found by him, iii. 215
Raffles, Sir Stamford, at Singapore, i. 143
Rafts: timber-rafts at Singapore, i. 146;
raft of the “Medusa,” i. 76–82;
Géricault’s painting, 81;
foundering of the “Arctic,” ii. 108
Rain in the Arctic regions, iii. 182
Raleigh, Sir Walter: the Spanish Armada, i. 285;
colonisation and trade with America, 315;
Queen Elizabeth’s patronage, 316;
“Bark Raleigh,” ib.;
colonisation of Virginia, ii. 2;
search for El Dorado, 4;
arrival at Trinidad, 4, 33;
portrait, 5;
mountains of Guiana; river Orinoco, 8;
fabulous tales, ib.;
his observations on trade and the state of the navy, 10
Ralph the Rover: the bell of the Inchcape Rock, ii. 173
Rams of ironclads: loss of the Vanguard and “Grosser Kurfürst,” ii. 155
Ramsay, David, patents for steam-ships, ii. 79
Ramsgate: iv. 241;
wrecks on the Goodwin Sands, ii. 212–235;
map of Ramsgate and the Goodwin Sands at low water, 252
Ramsgate Life-boat and the “Aid” steam-tug, ii. 215
“Ranger,” Paul Jones’s ship, iii. 72, 75
Rats on board ship, i. 222;
on the sea-coast, iv. 197;
on Looe Island, 214
Raw meat: its medicinal value in Arctic regions, iii. 244
Rawson, Lieut., in Arctic exploration, iii. 102, 105, 106, 107
Razor-fish, iv. 128, 129
Red-hot shot, first record of, i. 91;
at Sebastopol, 16;
at Gibraltar, 16, 18
Red Sea, i. 115;
passage of the Israelites, ib.;
its name; coral and animalculæ, 117;
islands, ib.
Redoubtable, at Trafalgar, i. 10, 11, 12
Reed, Sir E. J.: cost of ironclad war-ships, i. 14;
designer of the Iron Duke and Vanguard, 67;
big guns and armour plates, 6;
“Our Ironclad Ships,” ii. 144, 146
Reindeer in Spitzbergen, iii. 167;
at Hammerfest, 179;
venison, 246
Relics brought back by the Franklin search expedition, iii. 229
Renaud, M.: his co-operation with M. de Lesseps in the Suez Canal, i. 110
Rendel, J. R., C.E.: his co-operation in the Suez Canal, i. 110;
Portland breakwater, ii. 194
Rennie, James: his advocacy of steam war-vessels, ii. 98
Rennie, John: the Bell Rock lighthouse, ii. 173, 176;
Plymouth breakwater, 190;
his use of the diving bell, iv. 81
Rensselaer Harbour: winter quarters of Dr. Kane in the “Advance,” iii. 235
Rescue: the search for Franklin, iii. 214
Resolute: the search for Franklin, iii. 207
Resolution: Arctic voyages, iii. 155
Resolution and Adventure: Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery, iii. 277
Restoration Island named by Lieutenant Bligh: mutiny of the Bounty, i. 244
Reticulosa, iv. 111
Reynaud, M.: Héhaux lighthouse, Brittany, ii. 178–181
Rhizopoda, iv. 111
Rhodosperms, iv. 200
Richard I., first maritime code, i. 268;
laws against wrecking, ii. 237
Richardson, Sir John: portrait, iii. 185;
his adventure with wolves, 189, 190;
his attempt to swim the Coppermine River, iii. 191, 193
Riou, Capt., his death at Copenhagen, i. 152
Roanoake; its colonisation, ii. 2
“Roanoake,” i. 20
Robber crab, iv. 152
“Robert J. Stockton,” iron steam-ship, ii. 103, 104
Roberts, Captain Bartholomew, the pirate, iii. 63, 64
Roberts, Lady: her help in the wreck of the “Killarney,” ii. 314, 317
Robin Hood’s Bay, iv. 256
Robinson Crusoe: the island of Juan Fernandez, i. 33–36
“Rob Roy:” Napier’s steam-vessel, ii. 98
Rock-borers, iv. 203
Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Railway, iv. 21
Rodney’s naval victory, i. 186
Rôles d’Oleron: laws against wrecking, ii. 237
Roman ships and galleys, i. 261
Ronayne, John: his bravery in saving life, ii. 257–261
Rooke, Sir George: Gibraltar taken by him, i. 94
Rose, Richard: his life-buoy seat, iv. 262
Ross, Sir John: portrait, iii. 161;
his Arctic voyages, 163;
his voyage in the Victory, 186;
search for Franklin in the Felix, 207
Ross, Sir James Clarke: Arctic voyage, iii. 163;
Arctic exploration, 179, 181, 184;
discovery of the magnetic pole, 187;
“Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 225;
discovery of the South Polar Land; Victoria Land, Possession Island, and Mount Erebus, 280
“Rothsay Castle,” wreck of the, ii. 288, 297–304
Round the World on a Man-of-war, i. 87–214
“Round the World in Eighty Days,” iv. 1
Royal George, loss of the, i. 59–62;
its removal by Colonel Pasley, 62;
diving operations, iv. 86
Royal Humane Society, iv. 263
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 278–282
Royal Sovereign, Charles I.’s ship, ii. 29
Royal Sovereign, i. 5
Rudyerd, John, second Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 161;
destroyed by fire, 160, 163;
death of a keeper, ib.
Russell, J. Scott, F.R.S., “The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,” i. 85; ii. 101;
portrait, 129;
construction of the “Great Eastern,” 130
Russian America, Alaska, i. 169, 170
Russian Arctic Explorations, iii. 185
Russian attempts to discover the north-west passage, iii. 159;
Russian Arctic voyages, 159–162
Russian ironclads, i. 83
Saba Island, West Indies, i. 185
Sabine; Arctic expedition, iii. 163, 170
Saïd Pacha and M. de Lesseps, i. 108
Sailors: Lascars, Malays, and Kanakas, i. 43;
Devonshire boys on training ships, 46;
rating of sailors (able, ordinary, and boys), 51;
their hardships, 53;
flogging, 51–53;
perils of the sailor’s life, 54;
their conduct on board the Terror, iii. 199.
(See Discipline.)
St. Catherine’s Island, taken by the pirate Morgan, iii. 45
St. Domingo: drawing by Columbus of its discovery, iii. 292;
early gold-washing at, 293;
war, mutiny, and famine, 295;
Diego Columbus made governor, 308
St. Elias, Mount, Alaska, i. 170
St. George’s Island, Bermuda, i. 187, 189
St. Helena, i. 212, 213
St. John’s, Newfoundland: possession taken by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, i. 318
St. Juan de Ulloa, Sir John Hawkins’s action at, i. 299, 301
“St. Lawrence,” i. 20
St. Lucia, i. 187
St. Paul’s travels; his shipwreck at Malta, i. 103, 104
“St. Valentine,” treasure-ship, taken by Monson, ii. 21
St. Vincent, Battle of, i. 7, 8, 9
St. Vincent, Lord: suppression of the mutiny on the St. George, i. 256;
portrait, 257
Salmon, the, its natural history, iv. 163–168;
parr, smolt, grilse, ib.;
abundance of its ova, 164;
tinned salmon from America, 166
Salmon: fisheries of California, Vancouver’s Island, British Columbia, Alaska, i. 164, 168, 170, 171, 202;
mode of curing, iv. 167;
salmon leaps, ib.
Saltness of the sea, i. 87, 97; iv. 90
Salt Lake, Great; Salt Lake City, iv. 23;
Cape Douglas garrison, 24, 25;
street in the city, 25
Salvador, i. 8
“Salvador del Mundi,” i. 9
“Samaritano,” wrecked on the Goodwin Sands; Margate and Ramsgate lifeboats, ii. 217–223
Samphire, iv. 231, 233
Sandgate: loss of the “Grosser Kurfürst,” iv. 238
Sandwich: seal of the town, i. 274
Sandwich in the mutiny of the Nore, i. 252
Sandwich Islands: Honolulu; the king, iv. 45;
the ex-queen Emma, 46;
sugar cultivation, ib.;
volcanoes, 47
Sandy Hook Light, New York, i. 196
San Francisco: the bay; its entrance, the “Golden Gate,” i. 157;
the city, 158;
its history, ib.;
society, 161;
view of the bay, 160;
a timber wharf, 156;
“John Chinaman” in San Francisco, 161;
Chinese theatres, ib.;
earthquakes, 162; iv. 29, 30;
Drake at, i. 313
San Joseph, i. 8
San Juan Island, i. 166;
British camp, i. 165
“San Nicolas,” i. 8
San Salvador, the first land in the New World discovered by Columbus, iii. 288
Santangel, his support of the plans of Columbus, iii. 286
Santiago, i. 172
“Santissima Trinidada,” i. 8, 10
Saracens, their ships, i. 269
Sardines: mode of fishing for, iv. 174
“Savannah,” the Atlantic first crossed by her, ii. 105
Saving life at sea. (See Hovellers, Life, and Lifeboats.)
Saw-fish, iv. 162
Sawkins, Captain, the pirate, iii. 51–55
Scaliger, J. C.: history of paddle-boats, ii. 78
Scallops, iv. 138, 140
Scammon, Captain, soundings in Behring Sea, i. 138
Scandinavian early explorers of the Arctic regions, iii. 116
Scarborough: iv. 253;
shipwrecks, loss of the “Coupland,” 254
“Schiller,” loss of the, ii. 267
School on board the “Fox” in the Arctic regions, iii. 219
Scilly Islands, ii. 268–270
Scoresby: changes in the Greenland ice-fields, iii. 163, 178
Scotland, pearl fisheries of, iv. 71
Scott, Mr.: buried at sea in the “Fox” Arctic expedition, iii. 221
Screw-propeller, history of its invention, ii. 102
Screw steamer, plan and section of stern, ii. 101
Scurvy: on board in Anson’s fleet, ii. 50, 119;
in the expedition of the Alert and Discovery, iii. 106, 107, 111, 114;
in Munk’s Arctic voyage, 150;
in Vitus Behring, Ischirikoff, and Parry’s voyages, 161, 162, 176;
in Dr. Kane’s expedition, 239
Sea, the: its living wonders, iv. 111;
its saltness, agitation, and waves, iv. 90;
the Gulf Stream, 91;
tides, 92;
its colour and phosphorescence, 96, 97
Sea-anemones, iv. 123, 196–198
Sea coasts: “Sketches of our Coasts,” Cornwall, iv. 207–225;
South coasts, 225–247;
East coasts, Norfolk, Yorkshire, 247
Sea of Ancient Ice, voyage of the Alert, iii. 101
Sea-cucumber, iv. 126, 128
Sea-elephants, i. 34; iii. 279
Sea-shore: “By the Sea-shore,” iv. 190–207;
calm and storm, 192
“Sea-goers” in guard-ships, i. 45
Sea-horse, iii. 155, 156; iv. 162
Sea-lion, iv. 188
Seamen. (See Sailors.)
Sea-monsters, fabulous, i. 31
Sea-polyps from the Atlantic: voyage of the Challenger, i. 31
Sea-serpent: various accounts of it, drawings, conjectures, and probabilities, iv. 184–190
Sea-sickness, i. 50
Sea-sickness and remedies, iv. 6, 7
Sea songs and poems, by Dibdin and others, i. 8, 42; iv. 298–304
Sea-trees, Falkland Islands, i. 178
Sea-urchins, sea-slugs, iv. 125
Sea-weeds, iv. 200
Seal of the town of Sandwich, i. 274
Seals: on inaccessible island, i. 40;
their flesh as food, iii. 94, 217–219, 251
Sebastopol, siege and bombardment of, i. 14, 15
Selkirk, Alexander, on the island of Juan Fernandez, i. 33
Selkirk, Lady: plate taken from her by Paul Jones, iii. 73, 74;
returned five years afterwards, 75
“Serapis” taken by Paul Jones, iii. 77
Seton, Major: loss of the “Birkenhead,” i. 71
Severn: Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 50
“Shah” and “Huascar:” action between them, i. 26
Shakespeare’s allusions to the sea, iv. 291–295;
“The Tempest,” 292;
“Merchant of Venice,” 294;
“Measure for Measure,” Henry VI. part ii., “Richard III.,” “Pericles,” “Cymbeline,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Hamlet,” 295
Shakespeare’s Cliff, iv. 240
Shanghai, i. 122, 125
Sharks and Shark Fishing, iv. 160;
common shark; tiger shark, 161;
the shark worshipped in Africa, 162
Sharp, Captain, the pirate, iii. 55
Shells, Univalve, iv. 139
“Shenandoah:” her exploits in the American war, i. 139;
American whale ships burnt, iii. 157
Sheshaldinski, Peak of, Aleutian Islands, i. 171
Ships and shipping interests, History of, i. 258–ii. 156
Ship-building, History of. (See Naval Architecture.)
Ship-money raised by Charles I., ii. 28
Shipwrecks and their lessons, ii. 297
Shipwrecks; Falconer’s poem, iv. 297
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, iv. 226, 249, 258, 272
Shrimps, iv. 158
Sieges of Gibraltar, i. 90
Sierra Leone, i. 202, 204;
Drake at, 314
Sierra Nevada, iv. 20, 27, 28;
snow-shed, 29
Siffante, south-west wind, i. 107
Signals of distress, ii. 266, 275; iv. 289;
necessity for electric communication, ii. 277
Sigurd, King, the crusader, at Gibraltar, i. 90
Silver Mines in Nevada, iv. 26
Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope, i. 206
Singapore, i. 143;
spices, foliage, fruit, climate, 145, 146;
scenery and commerce, 147;
new harbour, 146, 147;
corals, 150;
Kling gharry drivers, 150;
tiger hunting, ib.;
views, 152, 153
Singhapura, Strait pirates, i. 146
Sinope, Battle of, i. 15
Siren signals, iv. 289
“Sirius,” ii. 106
Sirocco, i. 107
Sitka, the capital of Alaska, i. 169, 170
Skeletons of Franklin’s crews found by McClintock, iii. 230
Skerryvore Lighthouse, ii. 175–178
Slave-trade: established, i. 295;
slaves taken by Sir John Hawkins, ib.;
the African Company, ii. 33;
views of Columbus on slavery, iii. 295, 302;
slaves from America taken to Spain by Columbus and others, 295, 302, 307
Sledges in Arctic exploration, iii. 99–114, 133;
sledge journeys by McClintock, iii. 225;
by Morton, in Dr. Kane’s Arctic expedition, 239;
by Dr. Kane’s, 248;
by Capt. Parry’s, 179;
by Lieut. Payer’s, 272
Sleep in the Arctic regions, iii. 251
Sleepy comfort of freezing: Dr. Kane’s experience, iii. 237
Slip water bottles, for deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 38
Smeaton, John: biographical notice, ii. 164;
third Eddystone lighthouse, 165;
portrait, 170;
diving bell, iv. 81
Smiles, Samuel: Smeaton and the Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 164, 170;
Plymouth Breakwater, 191
Smith, Sir Sidney, i. 6
Smith, William, Discovery of South Polar Land, iii. 278
Smith’s Sound, view in, iii. 149;
discovered by Baffin, 150;
explored by Dr. Kane, 233
“Smoke-stack, Patent,” on the “G. S. Wright,” i. 141
Smuggling, iv. 210, 234
Smyth, Rear-Admiral: “The Mediterranean,” i. 87
Snow and ice: on American railways, iv. 21, 28;
at Plover Bay, i. 139;
crimson snow, iii. 164.
(And see Ice.)
Snow-blindness, iii. 179, 182, 239
Snow houses, iii. 244
Snow village in Greenland, iii. 173, 174
“Sofia,” Swedish Arctic expedition, iii. 257
Soldier crab, iv. 154
Soldiers at sea; burning of the “Kent,” i. 69, 70, 72;
loss of the “Birkenhead,” 74, 75;
wreck of the “Medusa,” 77, 78, 79, 80
Solen or razor-fish, iv. 128, 129
Songs, Naval, i. 42, 43
“Souffleur, The,” or the Blower. Mauritius, iv. 95
Southampton, iv. 225
South-east American Station, i. 175
South Sea Bubble, ii. 42–44
South Virginia Company: colonisation of America, ii. 11
Southey’s “Life of Nelson,” i. 8, 10;
“British Admirals,” 274, 275, 278;
defeat of the Armada, 290;
Sir John Hawkins and the slave-trade, 298;
Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe, 314;
anecdotes of Drake, 315;
exploits of Sir William Monson, ii. 19;
sea anemones, iv. 197
Sovereign of the Seas, launched by Phineas Pett, i. 232
Spalding’s diving-bell, its failure, and his death, iv. 81
Spanish Armada defeated, i. 283–291
Spanish galleons taken during the Commonwealth, ii. 31;
taken by Alison, 59–61; iii. 3
Spanish expedition to El Dorado, ii. 9
Speedy, commanded by Admiral Cochrane, i. 219;
action with the Spanish frigate “Gamo,” ib.
Spiders in ships, i. 221
Spinola: action at Cerimbra Roads, ii. 19, 21
Spinous cockle, iv. 204
Spithead, mutiny at, i. 251
Spitzbergen: discovery of, iii. 142;
Magdalena Bay, 166, 167;
animal life in, 167, 257
Spolasco, Dr.: wreck of the “Killarney,” ii. 305
Spondylus, iv. 138, 140
Sponges: “Venus’s Flower-basket,” i. 30, 32;
sponge fishing off the coast of Greece, iv. 65, 77
Sprat, iv. 173
Spray of the ocean, iv. 92
Spry, W. J. J., R.N.: cruise of the Challenger, i. 28
Squat lobsters, iv. 158
“Squirrel,” Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s ship, i. 318
Stables, Dr., R.N., on the punishment of the “cat,” i. 52, 53;
“Medical Life in the Navy,” i. 220
Staines, Sir Thomas: his discovery of the survivors of the Bounty, i. 247, 248
Stamp Act in America, ii. 66
Star-fish from the Atlantic; voyage of the Challenger, i. 31; iv. 125, 128
Stations, Naval: American, i. 102;
Pacific, 156;
Australian, 119, 131, 150;
China, 119, 137;
East India, 119;
Southeast American, 175;
West Indian, 178;
North American, 198;
African, 202
Steam-power essential in deep-sea sounding, i. 29, 30
Steam as a motive-power for ships: early history, ii. 79–97
Steam-ships first used for Arctic exploration, iii. 186
Steam war-ships first introduced, i. 225
Steel ships, i. 84
Stephens, F. G.: “History of Gibraltar and its Sieges,” i. 90
Stephenson, Captain H. F.: winter quarters of the Discovery, iii. 100, 101;
Alert and Discovery expedition, iii. 92
Stevenson, Allan: the Skerryvore lighthouse, ii. 175–178;
revolving and other lights, 186
Stevenson, Robert, Rennie’s assistant at the Bell Rock Lighthouse, ii. 175
Stewart, Captain A.: search for Franklin, iii. 207
Stirling, J. D. Morriss, on the sea-serpent, iv. 187, 189
Storms: the great gale of 1703;
Defoe’s account, ii. 199–209;
other accounts, 201, 202, 203;
“The Storm,” “After the Storm,” and other illustrations, iv. 292, 293, 296, 297, 300, 301
Straits of Gibraltar: scenery, i. 97
Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount: his verses on the lifeboat, ii. 211
Strombus, a univalve shell, iv. 144
Sturgeon and its roe; caviare, iv. 162
Submarine telegraph cables, iv. 98
Submerged forest, iv. 199
Suez, i. 110, 114, 115
Suez Canal: procession of ships at its opening, i. 97;
M. de Lesseps’ published works on the Canal; its origin and completion, i. 107–115;
statistics, 115;
bird’s-eye view, 109
Sugar plantations, Jamaica, i. 183
Sun, The. (See Mock Suns.)
Sun at midnight in the Arctic regions, iii. 264
“Sunbeam:” voyage of circumnavigation, iv. 40; 61, 62
Sun-fish, iv. 162, 164
Sunshine in the Polar regions, iii. 109
Surgeons in the navy, i. 52
Swallow, i. 7
Swallow, Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s ship, i. 318
Swamped at sea: loss of the “London,” ii. 289, 290–297
Swedish Arctic expeditions, iii. 257
Swedish ships: sanitary arrangements, ii. 120
Sword-fish, and mode of fishing for it, iv. 177, 178
Sydney, South Australia, i. 154;
its natural productions, ib.;
the Domain; the botanic garden, 155; iv. 52
Symington, William: steam navigation, ii. 82;
his experiments, 83, 84, 92;
portrait, 85
Symons, Captain, lost in the “Amazon,” ii. 278, 282
Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, i. 207
Tallack, W.: “Malta under the Phœnicians, Knights, and English,” i. 98
Tandon, Moquin, on sea-monsters, i. 31
Tasman: his discovery of Tasmania, i. 151;
discovery of New Zealand, iv. 51;
the Maories, ib.
Taylor, James: steam navigation, ii. 81, 83
Tchuktchi Indians: iii. 158;
building a hut, 157;
Professor Nordenskjöld at a Tchuktchi village, 275
Tea in Chili, i. 175;
Japanese, i. 133; iv. 43
Tea tax in America, ii. 67–69, 72;
thrown overboard, 69, 72
“Tegethoff:” Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition, iii. 271;
two years on an ice-floe, ib.;
the ship abandoned, 274
Telegraphy: submarine cables, iv. 98
Telescope, equatorial, at the Observatory, Greenwich, iv. 218
Téméraire, i. 5, 10, 11;
her engines, i. 225
Temperature: of the depths of the sea, i. 30;
of the Atlantic Ocean, 37;
extreme cold in the Arctic regions, iii. 103, 105, 111, 135, 136, 171, 225, 236, 237, 276
Tenney, Matthew: his heroism on board the Cumberland, i. 22
Teredo, iv. 128
Ternati, Drake at, i. 312, 313
Terror and Erebus among the icebergs, iii. 193, 197
Terror: voyage of the Terror under Captain Back, 196;
the ship nipped in the ice, 204;
Franklin’s last expedition, 207;
discovery of relics, 227, 230
Thames: Great Storm of 1703, ii. 204;
poetry of the, iv. 272
Theatre at Lima, i. 172
Theatres, Chinese, in San Francisco, i. 161
Theatricals: on the “Great Britain,” iv. 34;
“Royal Arctic Theatres” on the Alert and Discovery, iii. 103;
on other Arctic ships, 170
“Thémistocle,” i. 7
Thermometers for deep-sea sounding, i. 30, 37, 38
Thirst, sufferings from, ii. 16
Thomas, Captain, lost in the “Schiller,” ii. 267, 270
Thomson, J., “The Straits of Malacca,” i. 144
Thomson, Professor Wyville; cruise of the Challenger, i. 29
Thorne, Robert, his voyage of discovery, iii. 119
Thorpeness, Suffolk, iv. 247;
enterprise of Joseph Chard, ib.
Thunderer; her engines, i. 225
Tides of the Ocean, iv. 92
Tilbury Fort; Great Storm of 1703; West Indiamen wrecked, ii. 205
Time, mode of reckoning it in ships; “watches,” “bells,” “dog-watches,” i. 50
Time, difference between London and San Francisco, iv. 30
Timor, Lieut. Bligh at; mutiny of the Bounty, i. 242
Tobacco in Cuba when discovered by Columbus, iii. 290
Tobago; Crusoe’s Island, i. 179
Top-knot, a minute flat-fish, iv. 206
Torpedo (fish), iv. 160
Torpedoes: Fulton’s submarine boat, ii. 88;
Marquis of Worcester’s inventions, 146;
Bishop Wilkins’s subaqueous vessel, or “ark,” 148;
Schott, Knuffler, Fulton’s torpedoes, ib., 149;
Cushing’s attack on the “Albemarle,” 151;
“Lay” torpedo, ib.;
Porter’s, Fulton’s, Lay torpedo, Spar torpedo, 153;
Paraguayan torpedo, 154;
Harvey torpedo, 153, 155;
Whitehead or “fish” torpedo, 155
Torres, Luis Vaes de; Torres Strait, iii. 277
Tortuga, bucaniers at, iii. 5, 6;
wild dogs and horses, iii. 7;
its discovery; turtles, 315
Torture: Spaniards tortured by pirates, iii. 38
Toulon, Siege of, i. 6
“Trades’ Increase,” East Indiaman, ii. 13
Trafalgar, Battle of, i. 10–13, 227
Training Ships, i. 44;
the Chichester, 45, 47;
course of instruction and drill, 48, 49;
saluting officers, 48;
incessant work, 49; iv. 287
Transportation of convicts to Australia, i. 154
Treasure ships, i. 311; ii. 19, 55, 56, 59–61; iii. 60, 63
Trent in the ice, iii. 165, 166, 167
Trepang fisheries (Holothuria), iv. 127, 128
Trevethick, Robt., portrait, ii. 97
Trinidad, Columbus landing at, i. 177, 178; iii. 295;
visit of Amerigo Vespucci, 302;
Raleigh at, ii. 4, 33
Trinidad, Port of Spain, i. 179–182
Trinity House and the Trinity Corporation, iv. 287–289;
duties of the Board, 289;
light-vessels and staff of the Corporation, ib.;
royal and noble Masters and Brethren, ib.;
fog-horns or Siren signals, ib.
Tripe de roche: rock-lichen as food, iii. 241
Tristan d’Acunha, i. 38, 201
Triton, a univalve shell, iv. 144
Trochus, a univalve shell, iv. 141
Trollope, Anthony: “The West Indies and the Spanish Main,” i. 179, 182, 183;
Bermuda, 187, 188;
New Zealand, iv. 51;
Sydney, 52;
Melbourne, 54
Tromp, Martin, ii. 30
Tryal, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 50, 55
Tunny: tunny-fishing, iv. 177
Turbo, a univalve shell, iv. 141
Turret-ships: “Monitor,” “Merrimac,” “Miantonoma,” ii. 139, 140, 141;
interior of a turret-ship, 142;
“Brooklyn,” “Ohio,” Captain, Vanguard, Warrior, Black Prince, 143;
other turret-ships:
Inflexible, 144, 145;
Alexandra, 146, 147
Turtle at the Island of Ascension, i. 202
“Tuscarora:” deep-sea soundings, i. 28, 30
Twain, Mark: his account of the Bermudas, i. 189
Tyre, Ships of, i. 259
Unclassed ships, ii. 123
Union gun-boat, i. 6
“United Kingdom,” steam-ship, ii. 98, 99
“United States,” Dr. Hayes’s Arctic expedition, iii. 255
Univalves, iv. 139
Unseaworthy ships, ii. 112–119
Upernavik, Danish settlement at, iii. 254
Urchins: sea-urchins, iv. 126, 128
Utah, iv. 23