_Archimedes_, 184, 185 _Arctic_, 124 _Ariel_, 161, 162, 164 _Arizona_, 192 “Art of Seafighting, The,” 95 _Astell_, 112 _Aventurier_, 100, 101 _Audacious_, H.M.S., 216 _Auguste Victoria_, 211 _Austral_, 192 Australian Black Ball Line, 157 Australian gold discovery, 156 Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Co., 187 _Austria_, 211 Austrian Lloyd Company, 235 Baden-Powell, Sir Robert, 142 Baines, James, 135, 157 Balearic Isles, 5 Ballasting, 26 _Baltic_, 188 Barcelona ordinance, 22 _Barham_, 148 Beatty, Earl, 2 _Belle-Poule_, 100 _Bellone_, 112 Benbow, Admiral, 88 _Berceau_, 100 _Berengaria_, 170, 199, 202, 203, 217 _Berlin_, 216 Berthing a big liner, 198 Big Ship Masters, 208 _Bismarck_, 202, 218 Black Ball Line, 117, 123 “Black Book of the Admiralty,” 31 Black Sea, 16 Blackwall, 77, 80, 82, 92, 103, 115, 117, 134, 136, 146, 148, 172, 182, 188 _Blenheim_, 147 Blohm & Voss, 202 _Boddam_, 97 _Bombay Castle_, 93, 98, 99 Bombay Insurance Society, 102 _Bona Confidentia_, 58 _Bona Esperanza_, 58 _Borussia_, 210 Boulton & Watt, 170, 173 _Bremen_, 214 _Britannia_, 178 _Britannic_, 196, 200 British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 178 British crews in American packets, 124 British Navigation Laws, Repeal of, 152, 212 _British Queen_, 174 Brunel, 174, 185, 187, 188 Brunswick Basin, 92, 93 _Buckinghamshire_, 135 _Buenos Ayrean_, 190 Burns, George, 177, 178 Cabot, John, 205 Cabot, Sebastian, 49, 55, 59 Caird of Greenock, 210, 214 _Caledonia_, 171, 178 _Campania_, 195, 196, 214 _Canada_, 123 _Canton_, 97 _Cap Trafalgar_, 197 Cargatores, 24 _Carlisle Castle_, 148 _Carmania_, 197, 198 _Carn Brae Castle_, 115 _Caroline_, 111, 112 Carthaginians, 5 _Cedric_, 196 _Celtic_, 196 _Ceylon_, 112 _Challenge_, 153, 154, 156 _Challenger_, 153 Chancellor, Richard, 58 _Charlotte Dundas_, 169, 170 Chaucer, 42 _Chile_, 179 “China Clippers, The,” 164 China fleet, 100 _Christiana_, 25 _Chrysolite_, 153 _Cidona_, 25 Cilicians, 5 City of Dublin Steam Company, 123 _City of Edinburgh_, 172, 173 _City of Glasgow_, 191 _City of Manchester_, 191 _City of New York_, 193 _City of Paris_, 193, 194 _Claremont_, 170 _Clarence_, 147 Clark, Captain A. H., 123, 155 _Clermont_, 170, 171 “Clipper Ship Era, The,” 123, 155 Clipper ships, 151 Clyde, The, 161 Coal brigs, 130 _Cogge_, 39 Collins Line, 124, 182, 195 _Columbia_, 178, 211 Columbus, 14, 48 _Comet_, 170 Communal idea, 22, 27, 56 Continental Service, 119 Convoy of East Indiamen, A, 112 Convoy system, 12, 15, 23 _Conway_, 243 Cook, Captain, 130 Cort, Henry, 189 Cost of building ships, 103 _Coutts_, 98 “Cracking-on,” 150, 158 Cramp shipyard, 223 Cretans, 5