PAGE British Crosses & Medals Examining a “Haul” on Board the _Challenger_ _Frontispiece._ The _Victory_ at Portsmouth 5 Rocks near Cape St. Vincent 9 The _Victory_ at Close Quarters with the 12 _Redoubtable_ The Siege of Gibraltar 17 The Original _Merrimac_ 21 Engagement between the _Merrimac_ and _Monitor_ 25 The Peruvian Ironclad _Huascar_ attacked by two Chilian Ironclads The Peruvian Ironclad _Huascar_ Objects of Interest brought Home by the _Challenger_ 32 The _Challenger_ in Antarctic Ice 33 The “Accumulator” 35 The _Challenger_ at Juan Fernandez 36 The _Challenger_ made fast to St. Paul’s Rocks (South Atlantic) The Naturalist’s Room on Board the _Challenger_ 37 Dredging Implements used by the _Challenger_ 38 The _Chichester_ Training-ship 45 Instruction on Board a Man-of-war 49 The _Captain_ in the Bay of Biscay 56 The Wreck of the _Royal George_ 61 The Loss of the _Vanguard_ _To face page_ 63 The Loss of the _Kent_ 64 H.M.S. _Vanguard_ at Sea The _Vanguard_ as she appeared at Low Water 65 Falmouth Harbour 72 The Loss of the _Birkenhead_ 73 The Raft of the _Medusa_ 76 On the Raft of the _Medusa_—a Sail in sight 81 Section of a First-class Man-of-war 84 The _Warrior_ 85 The Rock of Gibraltar from the Mainland _To face page_ 87 Gibraltar: the Neutral Ground 89 Moorish Tower at Gibraltar 93 Malta 96 The Defence of Malta by the Knights of St. John 100 against the Turks in 1565 Catacombs at Citta Vecchia, Malta 101 M. Lesseps 105 Bird’s-eye View of Suez Canal 109 Map of the Suez Canal 111