_Shipper Berline of Prussia_, 39 Ship’s bell, Introduction of, 53 Shipwrights Company, 80 Side-lights, 123 Signal code, 74 _Silenus_, 111 Simon of Utrecht, 41 _Sir Edward Paget_, 115, 116 _Sir Lancelot_, 161, 164, 166 _Sirius_, 173, 174 Smith, Francis, 184 Smith, T. & W., 116, 136, 144, 147 Somes, 135, 147 Southampton, 179 _Sovereign of the Seas_, 66, 143 _Spain_, 194 Spanish Armada, 63, 67 Spars and Stays, 160 _Speculum Nauticum_, 72 State post-office, 119 Steam, Iron and Steel, 168, 182 Steele of Greenock, 161, 164 Stertebeker, 40 Stevens, John, 184 Stokehold of an Oil-Fuel Cunarder, 216 Stone ballast, 60 _Stornoway_, 153 _Streatham_, 111, 112 _Sylph_, 146 Suez Canal, 167, 180, 182, 194 _Sultan_, 192 _Superb_, 148 Swift, Dean, 84, 86 Symington, William, 169 _Taeping_, 139, 161, 164 _Taitsing_, 165 _Taunton Castle_, 97 _Teutonic_, 194 _Thames_, 135 _Thermopylae_, 162, 165, 166, 167, 181 _Three Brothers_, 130 _Tilbury_, 92 Timmins, Captain, 101 _Titanic_, 200 _Townshend_, 120 Toynbee, Arnold, 141 Toynbee, Captain Henry, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., 141 _Trades Increase_, 79 Traditions, 243 _Trafalgar_, 138, 139 _Trident_, 182 Triple-Expansion Engine, 197 Triumph of Steam, The, 168 _Truelove_, 129 Turbine, The, 197 _Turbinia_, 197 _Umbria_, 192 Union Line, 144 United States Merchant Marine Act, 227 United States Shipping Board, 225 Urmston, Sir James, 246 Urmston, Colonel E. B., C.B., 246 _Urso_, 25 _Valentine_, 92 Vasco da Gama, 47, 75, 77 _Vaterland_, 202, 217 Venetian Statutes, 21, 25 Venetians, 8, 11, 13, 29 _Vesta_, 124 _Victor_, 110, 112 _Victoria_, 187 _Victorian_, 197 Victual Brothers, 40 _Virginia_, 220 _Virginian_, 197, 230 Vivaldi, 47 Walpole, Capt. Hon. Richard, 98 _Warley_, 98, 100 _Warren Hastings_, 93, 98, 107 _Washington Irving_, 125 _Waterloo_, 104 West Indiamen, 90 West Indies Service, 121 _Wexford_, 98 Whall, Captain W. B., 141, 142, 143 White Star Line, 157, 183, 187, 188, 191, 194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 211 Wigrams, The, 77, 94, 104, 115, 116, 135, 144, 145, 146, 172 _William Fawcett_, 180 Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 59 Wilson, Captain Henry, 98 _Windham_, 112 _Windsor Castle_, 147 Woermann Line, 208 _Woodford_, 97 _Worcester_, 146, 243 World’s Biggest Ship, 206 Wreckers, 23 MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. Transcriber’s Notes pg 43 Changed: pilgrim trade to Santiago de Campostela To: pilgrim trade to Santiago de Compostela pg 122 Changed: between Yarmouth and Helvoetsluis in Holland To: between Yarmouth and Hellevoetsluis in Holland