Stivers, A. C., Chief Engineer of the _Monitor_, iv. 216. Stockton, Captain Robert Field, succeeds Captain Sloat in command of the Pacific Squadron, iii. 394; lands and attacks Los Angeles, _ib._; novel trick to deceive the enemy, _ib._; organizes a state government, 397; is succeeded by Commodore Shubrick, 401; his trip on Ericsson’s _Francis B. Ogden_, iv. 10; he induces Ericsson to come to America, 11; assigned to the _Princeton_, 14. Stoddert, Benjamin, Secretary of Navy, i. 334. “Stone Fleet,” sinking of the, iv. 470. _Stonewall Jackson_, Confederate ironclad, iv. 333; rams the _Varuna_ and sinks her, 334; is driven ashore by the _Oneida_ and _Cayuga_, _ib._ Stoney, Theodore D., Charleston citizen, builds, at his own expense, a number of “Davids,” iv. 497. Stringham, Flag Officer Silas H., assigned to command of Hatteras Island expedition, iv. 99. Strong, Commander James H., iv. 389. Submarine torpedo vessel, principles and construction of a, i. 165–170; experiments made to prove the nature and use of a, 172. Sullivan’s Island, Charleston, S. C., iv. 469. Sumatra, attack of natives of, on American ship _Friendship_, iii. 368. _Sumter_, Confederate gun-boat, rams the _Cincinnati_ at Fort Pillow, iv. 293; surrenders, 302. _Sumter_, Confederate ship, captured at Fort Pillow, iv. 302. _Sumter_, Confederate cruiser, iv. 407; Captain Semmes takes command of, 408; captures the _Abby Bradford_, 412; cruises in the Caribbean Sea, 413; on the Brazil coast, 414; is chased by _Iroquois_, _ib._; goes to Spain and Gibraltar, 415; expense of, to the Confederate Government, 416; sold and converted into an English merchant-ship, _ib._; runs the blockade of Charleston, _ib._; name changed to the _Gibraltar_, _ib._; lost in the North Sea, _ib._ _Superior_, American frigate, iii. 113. Superiority of British naval crews, i. 60. Superstition, sailors’, iii. 78, 79. _Surprise_, American brig, renamed the _Eagle_, iii. 139. _Surprise_, American cutter, i. 123; captures the ship _Joseph_ and the brig _Prince of Orange_, 124; detained in France by the British ambassador, 125. _Surveyor_, American schooner, attacked and overpowered by the British frigate _Narcissus_, ii. 417. _Susquehanna_, American ship, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. 443. _Susquehanna_, Federal frigate, iv. 163. _Sylph_, American schooner, ii. 349. Symonds, Sir William, his opinion of Ericsson’s _Francis B. Ogden_, iv. 10. Tabasco, Mexico, captured by Commodore M. C. Perry, iii. 414. _Tacony_, captured by Captain Read of the _Clarence_, iv. 424. _Tapanagouche_, British schooner sent to capture Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, i. 23. Tarbell, Captain, unsuccessfully attacks the becalmed British fleet in Hampton Roads, ii. 395.