Sixteenth-Century Navigator using the Cross-staff 176
Sixteenth-Century Compass Card 177
An Old Nocturnal 178
Sixteenth-Century Four-Masted Ship 186
Elizabethans boarding an Enemy’s Ship 187
Elizabethan Steering-Gear 189
Sixteenth-Century Ship chasing a Galley 190
Waist, Quarter-deck, and Poop of the _Revenge_ 192
Sixteenth-Century Three-masted Ship 192
Riding Bitts on the Gun Deck of the _Revenge_ 195
Plan of Early Seventeenth-Century Ship 197
Sixteenth-Century Warship at Anchor 198
Drake’s _Revenge_ at Sea 201
Sixteenth-Century Mariners learning Navigation 206
Chart of A.D. 1589 211
Ship Designer with his Assistant 212
Chart of the Thames from the First Published Atlas 214
Diagram illustrating the use of the “Geometricall Square” 215
Sixteenth-Century Ship before the wind 216
Early Seventeenth-Century Warship 218
Early Seventeenth-Century Harbour 222
Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch East Indiamen 226
“The Perspective Appearance of a Ship’s Body” 228
“The Orthographick Simmetrye” of a Seventeenth-Century Ship 230
Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch West Indiamen 232
Fitting out a Seventeenth-Century Dutch West Indiaman 236
Seventeenth-Century Dutch Shipbuilding Yard 240
Seventeenth-Century First-Rate Ship 244
Section of a Three-Decker 246
Nocturnal 247
Building and launching Ships in the Eighteenth Century 248
Collier Brig 250
Boxhauling 252
Eighteenth-Century “Bittacle” 253
Interiors of Eighteenth-Century Men-of-War 254
Quarter-deck of an Eighteenth-Century Frigate 255
Collier Brig discharging Cargo 256
Eighteenth-Century Man-of-War 258
Collier Brigs beating up the Swin 259
Model of H.M.S. _Triumph_ 260
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