Last British single turret ship, 246 Last British wooden battleship, 116 Legendary expeditions, 2 Letters of marque, 48 Lime dust as missile, 20 Limit of thickness of iron armour, 176 Lowering bulwarks, 151, 172 Low freeboard ships, 160, 244 Maudslay’s, 98, 102, 116 Machine guns, 284 Machines for hurling stones, 39, 40 Main deck battery divided, 174, 175 Malay: Pirates’ dug-outs, 32; fighting decks, proa, 33 Mediterranean and Atlantic coast vessels compared, 16 _Merrimac_: Steam frigate, 125; visit to England, 124; dimensions, 125; boilers and engines, 125; equal of any European vessel, 125; system of construction, 125; sail area, 125; heavy armament, 126; peculiar gun mountings, 126; burnt by Federals, 127; raised, altered and refitted by Confederates, 127; railway-iron armoured casemate, 127; her destructive trial trip, 128; duel with _Monitor_ and gunboats, 128, 131, 132, 133, 137; scuttled by commander, 133 Military mast, 166 Millwall Ironworks, 122 Modern guns and ships in war, 236 Modern heavy artillery construction, 282 _Monitor_: Ericsson’s tender, 128; officials’ interference with plans, 129; derision and abuse, 129; change in naval construction inaugurated by, 129; as ram, 129; Admiral Porter’s advocacy, 130; peculiar shape, 131; narrow escape, 131; why name chosen, 131; armament and armour, 131; duel with _Merrimac_, 128, 131-3; steering gear and anchor out of reach of hostile fire, 133; lost in rough weather, 133 Monitor: in Prussian-Danish War, 151; coast defence, 182; double turreted, 151, 153; craze for, 144 Mortar boats, 114 Napier, Sir C., 90 Napoleon I., proposed rescue from St. Helena, 293 Naval artillery: Later developments, 273 Naval corruption, 221 Necessity of armour protection, 146 New Georgia canoes, 31 New Guinea Lakatoi, 29 New Zealand (Maori) war canoes, 25 _et seq._ Noble, Sir A., 281 Nordenfeldt, Dr., 299 (_see_ Submarines) Number of rowers in banked ships, 9 Oblong iron forts on steam rafts, 199 Old ships re-armed, 243 “One-ass power,” 15 Oscillating paddles, 81 Outriggers, 24, 25 Paddles: Boxes and wheels, objection to, 81, 97; frigates with, 96, 97, 106; gunboats in action, 113; trials against screws, 98; war steamers with, 95; war junks with, 35; sponsons extended to carry cannon, 97 Palliser, Major, 274 Palmer’s, 306 Parodus, 6 Passengers called on to fight, 77 Penn, John, and Sons, 103, 178 Pett, Phineas, 54, 57 Phœnicians’ connection with Britain, 15; war galleys, 6 Pickled human heads, 49 Pioneer of modern battleship, 244 Portholes, invention of, 42, 49; plated ports, 120; reduced size, 120; diagonal plates, 125 Privateers, 140