Navy Board and sheathing, 245; rating, 249 Neco (Egyptian king), 49 Nelson, Lord, 251; his signal, 251; painting of his ships, 255 Nemi, Lake of, Roman ships in, 76 Nettings, 209 New York, 266, 267, 293, 296 New York Yacht Club, 325 New Zealand, 272 Newcastle hoys, 235 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 159, 258 Newfoundland fisheries, 202, 258, 294 Nicholas de Sigillo, 146 Nicholas of Lynn, 158 Nicholas, St., patron saint of sailors, 3, 129, 136, 161 Nicholson, Mr. C. E., 332 “Nor,” the prefix, 112 Norfolk wherries, 13, 34, 112; yawls, 315 Norman ships, 134-138 Norris, Admiral Sir John, 186 Norsemen, the, 109-127, 131. _See also_ Vikings North Pole, Dutch voyage to, 283 North-East Passage, search for, 191, 219 North-West Passage, 291 Norwegian merchants, 145 Norwegian yawl, 13 Norwich, 307 Nottingham, Earl of. _See_ Howard of Effingham “Nugger,” Egyptian, 43 Nydam, Viking ship discovered at, 115 Oak, English, scarcity of, 268 Octher, voyage of, 132 Oleron, laws of, 147 Oppenheim, Mr., 175, 176, 178, 179, 233 Orwell, the, 302 Oseberg Viking ship, 121 Outriggers, 179 Paddle _v._ screw test, 263 Paddle-wheel steamers, 263 “Painters,” 178 Painting ships, 176; of men-of-war, 255 Pallion, 271 Panama Canal, 277 Paris, Admiral, 310 Paris, seal of, 141 Paul, St., voyages of, 15, 79, 314 Pavisses, 179, 209 Penn, Sir William, 238 Penzance luggers, 318 Pepys, Samuel, 18, 187, 237-240; “Register,” 246 Personality of ships, 12 Petrie, Professor Flinders, discovers model Egyptian boat, 3, 27, 33 Pett, Christopher, 321 Pett, Phineas, and family, 227, 229, 236, 246 Pharos, tower of, 71 Phœnician ships, 46-55 Phœnicians, the, influence of the Egyptians, 47; as traders, 47; as sailors, 48; as explorers, 49; and the North Sea ships, 92; on the Baltic, 112 Pictures of ships, 5 Pilots, laws for, _temp._ Richard I., 147 Pin Mill, 302 Pine’s, John, engravings of House of Lords tapestries, 207 Pipe Rolls, 146 Piracy, _temp._ ancient Greece, 68, 85; North Sea, _temp._ Henry IV., 159; English, _temp._ Elizabeth, 222; Algerian, 233 “Plimsoll” marks, early, 215 Pliny, the elder, 102 Plymouth hooker, 291 Pompei, tomb at, 60 Poole, 326; seal of, 156 Poop, the, 16, 181 Portholes, 173 Portsmouth, 138, 209, 241, 245, 321 Portsmouth Dockyard, founded, 179 Portugal, maritime progress in sixteenth century, 180 Portuguese fishing boats, eyes on, 65 Potter, Messrs. W. H. & Co., 273 Prussia, 159 Pytheas’s _gnomon_, 71 “Quant,” 67 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 194, 197 Rams, Greek, 58, 63; galleons, 213 Ramsgate, 303, 304 Rating rules, yachts, 332 Ratings, 237, 249 Red ensign, 254 Reefing gear, 276. _See also_ Brails Reefing in Elizabethan times, 195 Revenue cutters, 323