=WAIST.=--That portion of a ship on the upper deck between the forecastle and quarter deck. =WATER-TUBE BOILER.=--A boiler in which the water is contained in tubes round which the hot gases circulate. =WAY (Momentum).=--It is important to note the difference between this and the term “_weigh_,” the two being very often confounded. A vessel in motion is said to have “way” on her; and when she ceases to move to have “no way.” But a vessel under weigh in one not at anchor or secured to the shore. =WEATHER-SIDE.=--The side on which the wind blows. =WEEPING (or Sweating).=--Drops of water oozing through the sides of a vessel or caused by condensation on the surface of the beams, etc. =WEIGH.=--To lift the anchor from the ground. =WIRE-WOUND.=--All big British guns are made by winding miles of steel wire or ribbon round a tube over which the exterior tubes are afterwards shrunk. =YARD.=--A spar suspended to a mast for the purpose of hoisting or extending a sail, or to which signal halyards can be taken. From “The Navy League Annual,” by the courtesy of Alan H. Burgoyne, Esq., M.P. Netherwood, Dalton & Co., Rashcliffe, Huddersfield. FOOTNOTES [1] All statements as to King Alfred’s navy are taken directly from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asser, and Florence of Worcester. [2] An interpolated passage [3] Wace. [4] Guyot de Provins _ex_ Nicholas. [5] _ex_ Nicolas. [6] Henry VIII introduced a new form of warship in the “pinnaces,” which were, to a certain extent, analogous to the torpedo craft of to-day. [7] Records of the Drake family. [8] The italics are mine.--F.T.J. [9] So far as I am aware nothing about this appears in any official account. I have no Japanese confirmation, but accounts gleaned at the time from the Russian auxiliaries--who, being foreigners had no object in lying--make it perfectly clear to my mind that the Russian admirals believed that the Japanese were astern of them till they met them at Tsushima. It is the only logical explanation of why Rodjestvensky essayed the narrow passage with his best ships, when he could equally well have gone round Japan with them unopposed, and so secured at Vladivostok that refit of which he was so much in need. [10] It was badly weather-beaten, of course, and in sore straits on account of its lengthy voyage. [11] In 1620 the first submarine appeared. It was invented by a Dutch physician, C. Van Drebel; and James I went for a lengthy underwater trip in a larger replica.--See _Submarine Navigation_, by Alan H. Burgoyne. [12] In this connection, _see_ The First Dutch War, a few pages further on. [13] It is interesting to note that this particular argument, seemingly rather hyperbolical to-day on account of railways, is so _only if the hostile ships can be kept under observation_. [14] This practice appears to have been allowed to die out. At any rate it was re-introduced in the time of Queen Anne.