Valetta, i. 98
Valparaiso, i. 172, 173
Vancouver: his discoveries, iii. 319
Vancouver Island: Esquimalt; Victoria, i. 163, 165;
Exploring Expedition, 167;
cedar canoes, ib.;
“Chinook jargon,” ib.;
Nanaimo, 168
Vandepat, Admiral, anecdotes of, i. 218
Vane, Captain Charles, the pirate, iii. 69;
betrayed by a former friend, and executed, 70
Vanguard (Nelson’s ship), i. 105; ii. 74
Vanguard, loss of the, i. 33, 63–66; ii. 143
Van Tromp, Admiral, ii. 31
Vasco da Gama: the Cape doubled by him, i. 203;
discovery of Natal, 211;
his first voyage to India, iii. 298;
arrival at Calicut, 299;
second expedition, ib.;
arrival at, and death in, Cochin China, 300;
portrait, 301
Vasco Nuñez, his discoveries in the Pacific, iii. 314
Vasco Perez de Meira; his siege of Gibraltar, i. 91
Veddahs, wild men of the woods in Ceylon, i. 119
“Vega”: Professor Nordenskjöld’s Arctic voyage, iii. 274
Venerable: mutiny of the Nore, i. 254
Venetian ships, i. 262
Venice, Breakwater at, ii. 188
“Venus’s Flower-basket,” i. 30, 32
Verne, Jules: “Round the World in Eighty Days,” iv. 2, 5
Verne: citadel of the Verne, Portland, ii. 196, 197
Vernon, Admiral (“Old Grog”), i. 51
“Vesta” (Russian) and “Assari Tefvik” (Turkish) ships: action between them, i. 27
Victoria (Hong Kong), described by Baron Hübner, iv. 43
Victoria, Vancouver Island, i. 163, 165
Victoria Land discovered by Sir James Ross, iii. 280
Victory: Sir John Ross’s Arctic ship, iii. 186, 225
Victory: Queen Elizabeth’s ship, i. 292
Victory: Nelson’s ship, i. 4–12, 96, 227
Vikings: their galleys, i. 263;
their Arctic voyages, iii. 115
Viking ship discovered at Gokstad, iv. 230
Villeneuve, Admiral of the French fleet at Trafalgar, i. 11
Virgil’s “Æneid,” references to the sea, iv. 291
“Virginia,” “Merrimac,” i. 19
Virginia discovered by Amadas and Barlow, i. 319;
named by Queen Elizabeth, ib.;
colonisation of, ii. 2
Vogt, on the Agalma rubra, iv. 118
Voices of fish, iv. 178
Volante, a carriage in Havana, i. 184
Volcanoes: in the Antarctic region, iii. 280;
in Japan, iv. 47;
in New Zealand, 50;
in the West Indies, i. 186;
volcanic origin of Bermuda, i. 187
Volunteers, Naval, i. 232–234
Voluta, a univalve shell, iv. 141
Wager, Commodore Anson’s ship, ii. 46, 51, 54
“Waisters” in guard ships, i. 45
Walker, Dr. David: “Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, iii. 216
“Walnut Shell” boat, for Franklin’s second expedition, iii. 194
Walrus, iii. 146, 157, 166;
early description of it, 130
Walrus meat, iii. 238, 240, 245, 263
Walter, Rev. R., “Anson’s Voyage Round the World,” ii. 46
Warburton, Eliot, “The Crescent and the Cross,” i. 98;
lost in the “Amazon,” ii. 283
Warrior, the first English ironclad, i. 18, 85; ii. 143;
her engine-room, i. 225, 226
Warwick, the King-maker: his piracies, i. 276
“Watches” and “dog-watches,” i. 50
Watt, James: the steam-engine, ii. 80;
portrait, 97
Waves off the Cape of Good Hope, iv. 89
Webb, Capt. Matthew, his “Art of Swimming,” iv. 258;
his wonderful feats in natation, iv. 258–266;
portrait, 265
Weddell, Captain: voyage to the South Seas, iii. 279
Weever-fish, iv. 205, 206
Weppner, Margharita: Falls of Niagara, iv. 15;
San Francisco, 30
West Indian Islands, map, iii. 17
West India Naval Station, i. 178
West Indies: the home of the bucaniers, iii. 2
Weymouth’s attempt to discover North-West Passage, iii. 143
Weyprecht, Lieutenant: Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition in the “Tegethoff,” iii. 271
Whales and whale-fishing, iv. 179–184;
Northern and Southern whales, 180, 181;
sperm whale, spermaceti, 181, 182;
blubber and oil, 182;
harpooning, 183;
whales in North Pacific, 32
Whalers of Behring Sea, i. 139, 140
Whale Sound, Greenland, iii. 233
Whirlpools: iv. 92, 93, 95
Whitby, iv. 256
White, John, first governor of Virginia, ii. 2
White, Walter: “A Sailor Boy’s Log-book,” i. 48
Whitehaven attacked by Paul Jones, iii. 72
Whitehead torpedo, ii. 155
“White Star” Line of Steam-ships, ii. 111
“White Star” Liner crossing the Atlantic, iv. 1
Whitstable oyster beds, iv. 137
Whitworth, Sir Joseph; big guns and armour-plates, i. 86
Wilkes, Lieut., discovery of South Polar land, iii. 279
Wilkins, Bishop; submarine vessel or “ark,” ii. 148
William the Conqueror’s ships, i. 266
William III.’s Navy, i. 232
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, his disastrous voyage, iii. 122
Wind in the Polar regions, iii. 111
Winds in the Mediterranean, i. 107
Wine for sailors in the French Navy, i. 51
Winstanley, Henry, first Eddystone Lighthouse, ii. 159, 199
Wolf Rock, Land’s End, iv. 210;
Lighthouse, ib.
Wolves, Sir John Richardson’s adventure with, iii. 189, 190
Woman at Sea, iv. 56–65
Women, Life saved by, iv. 221
Wooden and Iron Ships compared, i. 9, 13;
“The Fleet of the Future: Iron or Wood,” by J. Scott Russell, F.R.S., 85
Wood, Sir Andrew, of Largo: his victory over English ships, i. 277, 278;
commander of the “Great Michael,” 281
Wood, Rev. J. G.: sea-weeds, iv. 200, 202
Woodcroft, Bennett, on “Steam Navigation,” ii. 79, 81, 83, 84;
the screw propeller, ii. 104
“Woolpacket,” wreck of the, ii. 224;
hovellers, 251
Worcester, Marquis of; his inventions: torpedoes, ii. 146;
use of steam, ii. 79
Worden, Lieutenant, wounded in the first “Monitor,” i. 24
Worley, Captain, the pirate, hanged, iii. 70
Wrangell: Russian Arctic exploration, iii. 185
Wrecks, Statistics of, i. 3; iv. 285
Wreckers, ii. 304, 310
“Wrecking,” as a profession, ii. 235;
the king’s privileges, 237;
Cœur de Lion and his enactments, ib.;
the Rôles d’Oleron, ib.;
false pilots, ib.;
laws of George II., ib.;
false lights, 238;
waiting for a wreck, 241;
wreckers at work; murders; actual examples, 239;
wreckers executed, 240;
plunder of the “Inverness,” 241, 244;
police attacked by thousands, 242;
“Bergetta” plundered, 242;
arguments of wreckers, ib.;
wrecking at the Bahamas, 244;
“hovelling v. wrecking,” 245;
moral aspect of “wrecking” 256
Wreck Register of the National Life-boat Institution, ii. 318
“Wright, G. S.,” telegraph steamer, i. 138, 143
Xavier, Francis: Christianity introduced by him into Japan, i. 129
Yarmouth, iv. 248;
herring fishery, 250;
shipwrecks; loss of the “Osprey,” 249, 250
Yeh, Commissioner: capture of, i. 122
Yellow Sea, i. 122
Yokohama, i. 128, 129, 130; iv. 40
Yorkshire: sketches of the sea-coast, iv. 251
Young, Captain Allen: cruise of the “Pandora,” iii. 92–98;
“Fox” expedition in search of Franklin, 216, 218
Young, Brigham: Mormonism, iv. 2–4
Ysbrants: his voyage of discovery, iii. 129
Yukon river, i. 170
Zeigai Islands in the Red Sea, i. 117
Zeni, The Brothers: their Arctic exploration, iii. 117
Zoology, Marine. (See Challenger, Cruise of the.)
Zoophytes, i. 31; iv. 111