Merchants' Service: Growth, 3-5; parent of Navy, 6, 18; Imperial significance, xii, 10, 12, 14, 15, 126; unrecognized work, 10, 46 _seq._; educational function, 11; introduction of steamships, 11, 12, 13; international supremacy, 12, 13; outbreak of Great War, 14, 24, 163; submarine piracy, 17, 18 _seq._, 51, 177, _passim_; arming of, 19, 37 _seq._, 113-5; differences with Navy, 7, 21-25; reconciliation, 25 _seq._; liaison with Navy, 14, 18-19, 21-43, 120-3, 134, 191, 197, 199-203, 255-6 _passim_; commerce-raiders, 28, 51; Naval War Staff, 30 _seq._; transporting of troops, 14, 30 _seq._, 44, 45, 125-40, 223, 224-51; popular recognition of, and the longshore view, 46 _seq._, 254; discipline, 64, 68-71; wanted, a Ministry of Marine, 66; manning, 68-73; German _Schrecklichkeit_, 72, 73, 80-85, 92, 173, 203, 209; coastal Services, 77-86; war-time navigation, 85-6, 87-95; traditions, 4, 5, 9-13, 23, 98, 99-100; signals and wireless, 110-3, 120-4, 169-70, 191; destroyer escort, 29-30, 126-8, 178, 203, 235; torpedoing of a transport, 137-40, 237-40; camouflage and dazzle, 163-7; naming of standard ships, 168; owners' customs clerks, 184, 185; clearing for sea, 184-9; convoy conference, 198-204; putting to sea, 205-16; unloading and loading, 217-23, 247-51. _See under_ Navy Merchant Shipping Act, 67 Mersey, 49, 80, 107, 241, 244 Mexico, 230 Middleton, 6 Minesweeping, 25, 88, 89, 91, 95, 97-99, 102, 205 Ministry of Information, xiii Ministry of Shipping, 178, 181 Miramichi, 204 'M N', 252-53 Mobbs, Engineman, 99 Mons, 126 Monson, 6 Muscovy Company, 5 NANTUCKET Lightship, 104, 107, 109 _Nautical Magazine_, xiii Navesink, 109 Navy: Offshoot from Merchants' Service, 6, 18; press-gangs, 9; naval science, 11; arming of merchantmen, 19, 37; War Staff, 30 _seq._, 128; Naval Transport Officer, 32 _seq._, 131, 247, 251; Shipping Intelligence Officer, 36 _seq._, 185; D.A.M.S., 37-8, 185; 'Otters,' 38, 185; convoys, 41, 110, 121, 178-83, 189-97, 198-204, 205-12, 255; anti-submarine measures, 41-3, 95-6, 110, 113, 203, 255; 'Q. ships,' 42; gunnery, 43; wireless on sea-going merchantmen, 110-3; Transport Department, 126, 127; Salvage Section, 144-7; Examination Service, 190. _See under_ Merchants' Service _Nebraskan_, 109 _Neleus_, 226, 229, 232, 233, 234 Nelson, 11, 22 _Nelson_, 79 _Nemesis_, 139 Neutral shipping, 17, 91, 177, 203 New Brighton, 247 Newhaven, 31 New Jersey, 217 Newport, U.S.A., 107 New York, 27, 103, 109, 204 _New York Herald_, 109 Nichols, Skipper, 99 Nile, 11 Nore, 97 Norfolk, Va., 104, 191 North River, 217-23, 230 North Sea, 85, 88, 252 _Olympic_, 131 'Otters,' 38, 80, 166 Oversay, 117 PADRIG Flats, 148