Dartmouth, 138 Davis, John, as navigator, 155; and circle sailing, 178; nautical expressions in his logs, 203; extracts from his “Traverse-Booke,” 205; “Seaman’s Secrets,” 210 Davis’s quadrant, 246 Davits, 226 Deal, Cæsar’s landing at, 73, 74 Deane, Admiral, 240 Decks, 142 Deptford, seamen’s guild, 133, 171; dockyard, 181, 226, 274 Diaz, Bartholomew, 135 Dock, dry, the first, 180 Docks at Rome, 62 Dockyards, Royal, 181, 226, 274 Dover, 67, 72, 76; Roman Pharos, 243 Dover, Straits of, 72, 77 Drake, Sir Francis, 5; influence of Prince Henry the Navigator, 131; as navigator, 155; Cadiz expedition, 217; as strategist, 217 “Drift-sail,” 226 Duff, Capt., of H.M.S. _Mars_, 279 Duncan, Admiral, 267, 270 Dungeness, 77, 236, 289, 290 Dungeness beacon, 243 Dunnage, 289 Dutch as shipbuilders, 231 Dutch and English seamen, 16th century, 206 Dutch wars. _See_ Anglo-Dutch wars East India Company’s service, 284–287; monopoly abolished and fleet disbanded, 287 Ecnomus, battle of, 43, 62 Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed, 272 Edgar, King, 116 Edward II, 144 Edward III, poem on pilgrim ship of the time of, 147 Edward VI, 133 Egyptian corn-ships, 4, 57 Egyptian kings of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. build large warships, 43 Egyptians, the ancient, and the sea, 11, 12; Egyptian ships, 13; and naval warfare, 14; navigation of, 14; ships and boats in the life of the people, 14; shipbuilding, 15; not instinctively seamen, 16 Einar Thambarskelfir, 108 Elizabethan galleons, 5 Elizabethan Navy, training of the seamen, 184; seamanship, 186; supremacy and colonial expansion, 186; clumsy warships, 186; types of vessels, 186; obstacles to boarding, 188; the tumble-home, 188; colours of ships, 188; steering, 189; arrangements of the ships, 188–91; sails, 190; armament, 191–4; the captain, 194; punishments of seamen, 194; the lieutenant, 194; duties of the crew, 195; watches, 196; food, 198–202; health, 198; chaplain and trumpeter, 199; life on board, 199; contemporary account of sailing, 199; sea terms in Elizabethan literature, 203; their slowness, 206; life of a captain, 207; neglect of the seamen’s comfort, 207; bad treatment, 208; wages at time of the Armada, 208; men of the service, 208; flag saluting, 208; cause of the impetus of the time, 209; navigation books, 211–16; instruments, 211, 212; strategy, tactics, and discipline, 217; court-martial, 218; fleet tactics, 218; seamanship, 219–20 Elizabethan seamen as nautical experts, 171 Emigration sailing ships to U.S.A., 283, 284 English as shipbuilders, 231 English Channel, winds, 72; the Romans in the, 72; tides, 74, 76; John Davis and, 211; piracy, 222