Corinth, triremes built at, 42; shipbuilding at, 46
Crew, ship’s, of the 13th century, 141, 146
Cross-staff, the, 174; its use described, 176; improved, 212
Crusades, the, 117, 119, 121; Crusaders’ journey from Dartmouth, 138–40
Cyprus, temple in, commemorating a large ship, 43
Davis, John, as navigator, 155; and circle sailing, 178; nautical expressions in his logs, 203; extracts from his “Traverse-Booke,” 205; “Seaman’s Secrets,” 210
Deptford, seamen’s guild, 133, 171; dockyard, 181, 226, 274
Drake, Sir Francis, 5; influence of Prince Henry the Navigator, 131; as navigator, 155; Cadiz expedition, 217; as strategist, 217
Dutch and English seamen, 16th century, 206
East India Company’s service, 284–287; monopoly abolished and fleet disbanded, 287
Edward III, poem on pilgrim ship of the time of, 147
Egyptian kings of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. build large warships, 43
Egyptians, the ancient, and the sea, 11, 12; Egyptian ships, 13; and naval warfare, 14; navigation of, 14; ships and boats in the life of the people, 14; shipbuilding, 15; not instinctively seamen, 16
Elizabethan Navy, training of the seamen, 184; seamanship, 186; supremacy and colonial expansion, 186; clumsy warships, 186; types of vessels, 186; obstacles to boarding, 188; the tumble-home, 188; colours of ships, 188; steering, 189; arrangements of the ships, 188–91; sails, 190; armament, 191–4; the captain, 194; punishments of seamen, 194; the lieutenant, 194; duties of the crew, 195; watches, 196; food, 198–202; health, 198; chaplain and trumpeter, 199; life on board, 199; contemporary account of sailing, 199; sea terms in Elizabethan literature, 203; their slowness, 206; life of a captain, 207; neglect of the seamen’s comfort, 207; bad treatment, 208; wages at time of the Armada, 208; men of the service, 208; flag saluting, 208; cause of the impetus of the time, 209; navigation books, 211–16; instruments, 211, 212; strategy, tactics, and discipline, 217; court-martial, 218; fleet tactics, 218; seamanship, 219–20
Elizabethan seamen as nautical experts, 171
Emigration sailing ships to U.S.A., 283, 284
English Channel, winds, 72; the Romans in the, 72; tides, 74, 76; John Davis and, 211; piracy, 222
Exmouth, Admiral Lord, and pirates of Algiers, 224