The names of the authorities consulted have generally been given in the text, or in footnotes. The author is indebted to Dr. Warre's article on ships, in the last edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica," and to Mr. Cecil Torr's work, "Ancient Ships," for much information concerning Greek and Roman galleys, and further to "The Royal Navy," a history by Mr. W. Laird Clowes, and the "History of Marine Architecture" by Charnock, for much relating to British warships down to the end of the eighteenth century.
5, ADELPHI TERRACE, W.C., _January, 1, 1900_.
ANCIENT SHIPS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND RED SEAS 5
ANCIENT SHIPS IN THE SEAS OF NORTHERN EUROPE 55
DESCRIPTION OF AN ARCHAIC GREEK BIREME 157
*1. EGYPTIAN SHIP OF THE PUNT EXPEDITION. ABOUT 1600 B.C. _From Dêr-Bahari_ _Frontispiece_
2. THE OLDEST KNOWN SHIPS. ABOUT 6000 B.C. 10
3. EGYPTIAN BOAT OF THE TIME OF THE THIRD DYNASTY 11
+4. EGYPTIAN BOAT OF THE TIME OF THE FOURTH DYNASTY 13
*5. NILE BARGE CARRYING OBELISKS. ABOUT 1600 B.C. 20
6. BATTLESHIP OF RAMSES III. ABOUT 1200 B.C. 24
7. PORTION OF A PHOENICIAN GALLEY. ABOUT 700 B.C. _From Kouyunjik (Nineveh)_ 27
10. FRAGMENT OF A GREEK GALLEY SHOWING ABSENCE OF DECK. ABOUT 550 B.C. 32
11. GALLEY SHOWING DECK AND SUPERSTRUCTURE. ABOUT 600 B.C. _From an Etruscan imitation of a Greek vase_ 34
12. GREEK MERCHANT-SHIP. ABOUT 500 B.C. 39
+14. PROBABLE ARRANGEMENT OF OAR-PORTS IN ANCIENT GALLEYS 48
15. SUGGESTED ARRANGEMENT OF OAR-PORTS IN AN OCTOREME 48
17. LIBURNIAN GALLEY. CONJECTURAL RESTORATION 50
18. STEM AND STERN ORNAMENTS OF GALLEYS 52
27. ONE OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S SHIPS. 1066 A.D. 66
31. VENETIAN GALLEY. FOURTEENTH CENTURY 78
32. CROSS-SECTION OF A VENETIAN GALLEON 79
34. ITALIAN SAILING-SHIP. FIFTEENTH CENTURY 81
37. ENGLISH SHIP. LATTER HALF OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY 86
38. COLUMBUS' SHIP, THE "SANTA MARIA." 1492 87
41. THE "HENRY GRACE À DIEU." 1514. _Pepysian Library, Cambridge_ 93
42. THE "HENRY GRACE À DIEU." _After Allen_ 94
48. THE "SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS." 1637 109
53. MIDSHIP SECTION OF A FOURTH-RATE. END OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 120
54. THE "FALMOUTH." EAST INDIAMAN. LAUNCHED 1752 124
62. SIR ROBERT SEPPINGS' SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTION 138
*67. THE "THAMES." EAST INDIAMAN. 1819 144
++70. THE "BAZAAR." AMERICAN COTTON-SHIP. 1832 149