The towed torpedo was overshadowed by the fish or self-propelled torpedo. In ’70 Mr. Whitehead came to England and, prosecuting experiments under the eyes of naval officers, with a 16-inch torpedo successfully sank an old corvette anchored in the Medway at 136 yards’ range. The result was the purchase by the Admiralty of his secret and sole rights. In ’77 the first torpedo-boat was ordered. [172] Colomb: _Attack and Defence of Fleets_. [173] Vice-Admiral Sir G. Elliot: _On the Classification of Ships of War_. [174] Brassey: _The British Navy_. INDEX _Active_, the, 298 _Agamemnon_, the, 288 _Ajax_, the, 288 _Alarm_, the, 44 _Alecto_, the, 239 _Alexandra_, the, 274 Anderson, Robert, 167 Anson, Lord, 43, 121, 151 Archimedes, 95, 115, 234 _Archimedes_, the, 238 _Argyle_, the, 225 Armada, the Spanish, 9, 77, 79 Armstrong, Lord, 200 Armstrong gun, the, 201, 255, 268 Atwood, 40 _Audacious_, the, 274 Bacon, Lord, 34, 93, 96 Bacon, Roger, 62 Baker, Ezekiel, 119, 189 Baker, James, 15 Baker, Matthew, 15 Balchen, Admiral, 147 Barnaby, Sir N., 50, 283, 289 Barrow, Sir J., 98, 229 Battery, central, ships, 270 Bawd, Peter, 72 Beaufoy, Colonel, 40 Beaufoy, Corporal, 190 Belleisle, siege of, 83 _Bellerophon_, the, 272 Bentham, Sir S., 55, 136, 162 Berghen-op-Zoom, siege of, 120 Bernouilli, Daniel, 37, 216 Bernouilli, John, 37, 115 Berthold the Friar, 62 _Birkenhead_, the, 257 Blake, 42 Blomefield, General, 85 Board of Ordnance, 145 Bold, Charles the, 87 Bonaparte, 165 Borda, the Chevalier, 37 Bossut, Abbé, 38 Bouguer, 37, 216 Boulton, 108, 222 Bourne, Robert, 143, 212 Boyle, 96 Boynton, 267 Brackenbury, General, 62 Bramah, 222, 234 Bridgewater, the Duke of, 218 Briggs, Sir J., 228 Broke, Sir P., 154 Brown Bess, rifle, 192 Brown, Commander, 235 Brunel, 228, 238, 277 Brunswick, rifle, 190 Buckhurst, Lord, 79 Burrell, Andrew, 23 Bushnell, 213 Busk, Hans, 184, 244 Byng, Admiral, 42 Cabots, the, 5 _Caiman_, the, 293 _Caledonia_, the, 49, 226 _Captain_, the, 280 Caus, Solomon, 95-98 Cawley, 103 _Cerberus_, the, 282 Chads, Captain, 249 Chapman, 39, 149 Charles I, King, 23 Charles II, King, 29, 96 Charles V, Emperor, 88 _Charlotte Dundas_, the, 219 Charterhouse, garden, 119 Chatfield, 59 _Chesapeake_, the, 156 Chinese gunboats, 291 Clerk of Eldin, 219 _Clermont_, the, 223 Cloyne, Bishop of, 116 Cockle, Maurice, 65 _Collingwood_, the, 292 Colomb, Admiral, 264, 287 _Colossus_, the, 288 Columbus, 5 _Comet_, the, 225, 229 _Commerce de Marseille_, the, 46 Compass, discovery of, 3 Condorcet, 38 _Congo_, the, 238 _Congress_, the, 263 Congreve, General, 85 Congreve, Sir W., 85, 91, 147, 158 _Conqueror_, the, 288 Consort, Prince, 277 Constantinople, siege of, 66