Basket-work boats, 6, 15 Basket-work shields, 6 Battle between steam fleet and sailing fleet, 106 Battles: Acre, 94; Copenhagen, 64; “Glorious First of June,” 64; La Hogue, 59; La Rochelle, 40; Lissa, 152; Ramming at, 153, 155, 157; Losses, 156; Migdol, 4; Min River, 224; Navarino, 64; Sinope, 106; Sluys, 40; Trafalgar, 64; Tsushima, 238-9 (_see also_ _Huascar_, _Merrimac_, _Monitor_, American Civil War, Spanish American War) Battleship of the future, 328-31 Battleship-cruisers, 254, 255, 261, 262 Battleship’s greatest enemy, 285 Beardmore and Sons, 252 Beardmore, Mr., on armour progress, 253 Beginning of the English Navy, 44 _Bellatorium_ (fighting castle), 20 Beresford, Lord Charles, and Egyptian gunner, 218 Bessemer, Sir Henry, 266 Betts, Hanlon and Hollingsworth, 123 Bilge keels, 120 Biremes, Triremes, etc., 7 _et seq._ Blakely shells in war, 198 “Blast” of great guns, 249 Blockade runners, 141 Boilers: Belleville, 260; watertube and cylindrical in combination, 260 Bomb vessels, 58 Boulton and Watt, 89 Bow armour, 147 Box or central battery, 119, 121 Brazil-Paraguay War (1865), 198 Brazilian gun experiments, 269 Breastwork monitors, 183 Breastworks, 164 Breech-loading guns in European ships, 195 (_see_ Artillery) Britain’s first iron screw steamer, 94 Britain’s reply to United States monitors, 162 British naval resources, 62, 303 British Navy begun, 44 British-built monitors for Holland, 192 Broadside ironclads, 147, 148, 153 Broadside or central battery ships, 212 Broadside ships, 174, 243 Brooke, Commander, 127 Brooklyn Navy yard, 104 Brown, Sir John, 276 Brunel, I. K., 89 Buchanan, Commander Franklin, 128 Built canoes, 30 Bulkheads: armoured, 174, 120; iron-plated, 121 “Busses,” 20 Cammell (Sheffield), 179 Cancelli, 6 Canet, M., 277 Cannon, demi-cannon, 74 Carronades, 75 Catamarans, 30, 291 Cavalli, Major, 265 Cellular double bottoms, 152 Central armoured citadel, 178 Central battery, 148, 174, 175, 243 Central battery and double turret combined, 244 Central box battery ships in action, 203 Central hexagonal box battery (Mackrow system), 194 Cervera, Admiral, 230-2 Charles II.’s navy, 58 Chatham Islands catamarans, 30 Cheeses (Dutch) as cannonballs, 76 Chili-Peruvian War: Peruvian fleet, 203; Chili’s modern ironclads, 203; how the Chilians fought and lost the _Esmeralda_, 205; naval battles of the war, 203-7 Chilian Revolution: Rebel _Esmeralda_ (1884), 208; fight between _Blanco Encalada_ and _Almirante Lynch_ and _Almirante Condell_, 209-10; sulking of the _Blanco Encalada_, 210 Chinese artillery, 35 Chinese war junks, 35 Chino-Japanese War, 234-5 Cinque ports, 51 Circular ships, 180