_Sovereign of the Seas_, warship of Charles I., 110 Spanish Armada, account of, 97 Speeds attained by American clippers, 150 ----, of galleys, 48, 50 Square buttocks, abandonment of, in English warships, 106 Steam navigation, introduction of, 155 Stern castles, development of, 72, 73, 75, 79, 83, 89, 95, 102 _Stornoway_ and _Chrysolite_, first Aberdeen clippers, 153 Strains, hogging and sagging, on ships, 135 Structural arrangements of ancient galleys, 51 _et seq._ Stuart kings, fondness of for Navy, 104, 108, 114 T _Thames_, East Indiaman, of 1819, 145 _Thetis_, West Indiaman, 146, 147 Timber for shipbuilding, cost of, in the nineteenth century, 155 ----, ----, superstitions of ancients regarding, 50 ----, for warships, methods of treating in the eighteenth century, 122 ----, used in construction of ancient galleys, 50 Topmasts, introduction of striking, 101 _Trade's Increase_, Jacobean merchantman, 108 Triremes, first use of, in Greece, 29 ----, Greek, crews of, 42 ----, ----, dimensions of, 39 ----, ----, length of oars of, 42 _See also_ GALLEYS _Triumph_, Elizabethan warship, 98 Trojan expedition, ships used in, 31 "Tumble home," why introduced, 78 Turrets, use of, in Roman galleys, 54 U Unireme, Greek, of about 500 B.C., 31. _See also_ GALLEYS V Vasco da Gama, ships of, 91 ----, voyages of, 91 Veneti, ships of, 55 Venetian galleasses, end of the sixteenth century, 103 ----, galleon of the sixteenth century, 78 ----, galley of the fourteenth century, 77 ----, galleys, number of rowers to oars of, 47 ----, ship, built for France, 1268, 73 ----, twelfth century ship of great size, 68 Venetians, first use of naval artillery by, 77 ----, skill of, in shipbuilding, 69 Ventilation of warships, middle of the eighteenth century, 123 Viking ship, description of, 59 Voyages of Vasco da Gama, 91 W Warships of Ramses III., 23 ----, ventilation of, middle of the eighteenth century, 123 _See also_ ENGLISH WARSHIPS, ENGLISH FIRST-RATES, FRIGATES, FLEETS, GALLEYS, SHIPS, FRENCH FIRST-RATES _Waterloo_, English first-rate, time of William IV., 141, 142 Waterways, introduction of, in shipbuilding, 139 West Indiaman, the _Thetis_, 146 END OF PART I. PRINTED BY WYMAN AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND READING. End of Project Gutenberg's Ancient and Modern Ships., by George C. V. Holmes