Neco, King of Egypt, and the circumnavigation of Africa, 21
Nelson, Lord, signal at Trafalgar, 271; the battle of St. Vincent, 271; the _Victory_, 275; cost of a man-o’-war in his time, 276; colours of his ships, 280
Newcastle-on-Tyne Seamen’s Guild, 133, 171
Norsemen, the, and navigation, 2. _See also_ Vikings
Norwood, Richard, “Seaman’s Practice,” 216
Oarsmen on triremes, 39 _et seq._; on Viking ships, 112
Olaf Tryggvason, King, 94, 96, 100, 101, 103
_Pentekontoroi_ (Greek warships), 37, 50, 51
Petrie, Prof. Flinders, on shipbuilding in Egypt, 15, 51
Phœnicians, the, as seamen, 12, 16; build a fleet for Sennacherib, 17; a race of seamen, 18; their ships and crews, 18; their navigation, 19, 22; biremes, 19; their losses, 20; piracy, 20; their voyages, 21; circumnavigation of Africa, 21; the first great seamen, 23; engineers, 23; Xenophon’s record of their ships, 23; influence on the Greeks, 26
Pilots, 170; “loadsmen,” 172; Mersey, 260; Tyne, 260
Piracy, Phœnician, 20; in Roman times, 66; in Tudor times, 184
Pirates, Mediterranean, 152; in Elizabethan times, 222; 17th century, 223; Moorish, 223; Tunisian, 224; Algerian, 224
Portsmouth, first dry dock at, 180; dockyard established, 181; ships from, wintered on Medway, 184; dockyard, 226, 274; Naval Academy, 250
Portuguese, their maritime knowledge, 125, 128; influence of, on seamanship, 133; concession to the King of Portugal, 134; their discoveries, 134, 135; discoverers able to keep at sea, 154; enterprise in shipbuilding, 219; as navigators, 219
Privateering in Tudor times, 184; in 18th century, 261; tactics, 262
Prize, division of, Elizabethan times, 197
Pytheas of Massilia, the pioneer of navigation, 6, 27; his voyages of discovery, 28
Quadrant, Davis’s, 212; Flamstead’s, 212; Halley’s, 212
Ramming, Greek warships and, 30, 41; method of, by Rhodians, 52; in the Middle Ages, 143
Rawlinson, Professor George, on biremes, 19; on Phœnician navigation, 22
Renaissance, the, and cartography, 124; and shipping, 170
Rhodes, ancient, ships of, 52; celoces, 52; naval tactics, 52; ramming, 52; naval organisation, 53; shipbuilding, 53; sea prowess, 54; as a port, 54; sea law, 55; “Code Navale des Rhodiens,” 151
Richard I and his Crusader fleet, 139; his naval tactics, 143