Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, Porter visits and communicates with Bainbridge at, iii. 3; Captain Semmes allowed to make his headquarters there, iv. 527. Ferryboats as successful naval ships, iv. 37. _Finch_, British gun-boat, iii. 143; disabled in the battle of Lake Champlain, 161. _Fingal_, Scotch iron steamer, erected into a Confederate ironclad, iv. 486; renamed the _Atlanta_, 488. Fitch, Colonel, attacks Charles City, Ark., iv. 307; storms and captures it, 308. Flag. See _American Flag_. _Flag_, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. _Flambeau_, French privateer, captured by the _Enterprise_, ii. 373. Flamborough Head, naval fight between the _Serapis_ and _Bonhomme Richard_ near, i: 243. Flannen Islands, the _Alliance_, of Paul Jones’s fleet, captures a valuable prize off the coast of, i. 236. Flores, General José Maria, paroled by Commodore Stockton, iii. 397; breaks his parole, _ib._ _Florida_, Confederate cruiser built at Liverpool, iv. 416; her first voyages, 417; Captain John Newland Maffitt appointed to command of, 418; is fired at by Captain Preble of the _Winona_, 419; escapes, _ib._; blockaded by the _Cuyler_, 420; runs the blockade, 423; Captain Charles M. Morris appointed to command of, 424; rammed by the _Wachusett_ and taken to the United States, _ib._; scuttled at Newport News, 429. _Fly_, schooner of first American Navy, i. 40. Foote, Admiral Andrew Hull, Lieutenant on the American brig _Perry_, sent to Africa to assist in putting down the slave traffic, iii. 363; his sincere desire to stop the traffic, 364; captures the slave-ships _Martha_ and _Chatsworth_, 364–366; the “original prohibitionist of the navy,” 367; is sent to Canton to protect American interests, 380; is fired on by the Chinese forts, _ib._; bombards and captures the forts, 380, 381; relieves Commander John Rodgers of his command on the Mississippi, iv. 250; assembles a fleet at Paducah, 255; inspects the crews, 256; seeming insolence of Captain Walke to, 266; joins the expedition to Fort Donelson, 268; is seriously wounded, 271; again, 272; is relieved by Captain Charles H. Davis, 289. _Forest Queen_, Federal army transport, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. 364. Fort Beauregard, on Bay Point, Charleston, S. C., Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. 169, 467. Fort Donelson, strength of, iv. 268; arrival of the _Carondelet_, _ib._; the _St. Louis_, _Louisville_, and _Pittsburg_ arrive before, 271; all three ships disabled, _ib._; the fleet at a disadvantage, 272; surrendered to General Grant, _ib._ Fort Erie, the Coney Island of Buffalo, ii. 273.