----, warships of, 114 Competition between Great Britain and the United States for the world's carrying trade in 1850, 2 ----, for the world's carrying trade, probable renewal of, 4 _Constant Warwick_, English frigate, 1646..117 Construction of Greek and Roman galleys, 40 Construction of Viking ship, 59 ----, of wooden battleships, 125, 135 Copper-plating ships' bottoms, introduction of, 128 Crews of English ships, end of the twelfth century, 67 ----, ----, ----, early fourteenth century, 73 ----, ----, ----, reign of Elizabeth, 98 ----, ----, ----, seventeenth century, 117 ----, of Greek triremes, 42 ----, of Roman quinqueremes, 44 Cutters, earliest notice of, 111 D Danish ship, description of ancient, 63 Decks, use of, in Egyptian ships, 14, 20 ----, ----, in Greek galleys, 33, 34, 43, 44, 157, 160 ----, ----, in Phoenician galleys, 28 Der-el-Bahari, maritime records on the temple of, 18 Dimensions of American clippers, 150 ----, of Athenian docks, 41 ----, of Columbus' ship, 89 ----, of East Indiaman of 1752..123 ----, of English warships, 106, 110, 116, 117, 121, 126, 128, 129, 131, 142 ----, of Greek triremes, 41 ----, of Italian ships built for France in the thirteenth century, 73 ----, of sixteenth century carrack, 96 Dover seal, ship on, 72 Drake circumnavigates globe, 99 Dromons, 67 E East India Company, early voyages of, 100, 108 ----, ----, ----, Elizabeth grants charter to, 100 ----, ----, ----, James I. grants charter to, 108 ----, ----, ----, origin of, 100 ----, ----, ----, in 1772..145 East Indiaman of 1752..123, 124 ----, ----, of 1819 (the _Thames_), 144, 145 _Edward Bonaventure_, Elizabethan merchant-ship, 99, 100 Edward III.'s fleet in 1347..76 Edward III., naval wars of, 74 ----, ships of, 76 Edward IV., English commerce in reign of, 85 Egypt, favourable situation of, for development of shipbuilding, 7 ----, transport of granite blocks down Nile, 9, 14, 15 Egyptian barge for transporting obelisks down Nile, 22 ----, boat of the third dynasty, 12 ----, ----, of the fourth dynasty, 14 ----, ----, of the sixth dynasty, 14 ----, boats in time of Herodotus, 24 ----, ----, of the twelfth dynasty, now in existence, 25 ----, maritime expeditions to the land of Punt, 16, 18 ----, naval expedition against the Shepherd Kings, 18 ----, religion, influence of, on the development of shipbuilding, 7 ----, ships used in Hatshepsu's expedition to Punt, 18 ----, warships of Ramses III., 23 _Elizabeth Jones_, Elizabethan warship, 98 Elizabethan fleet, 98, 102 ----, maritime expeditions, 99 ----, merchant-shipping, 98, 99 English clippers, 153 _et seq._ ----, commerce in the reign of Henry III., 69 ----, ----, ----, of Edward IV., 85 ----, first-rate of 1637, _Sovereign of the Seas_, 110