|
[CHAPTER
I.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | PAGE |
| Extent of the Subject—The First
American Colony—Hostilities with the Indians—117 Settlers
Missing—Raleigh’s Search for El Dorado—Little or no Gold
discovered—2,000 Spaniards engage in another Search—Disastrous
Results—Dutch Rivalry with the English—Establishment of two
American Trading Companies—Of the East India Company—Their
first Great Ship—Enormous Profits of the Venture—A
Digression—Officers of the Company in Modern Times—Their Grand
Perquisites—Another Naval Hero—Monson a Captain at Eighteen—His
appreciation of Stratagem—An Eleven Hours’ hand-to-hand
Contest—Out of Water at Sea—Monson two years a Galley
Slave—Treachery of the Earl of Cumberland—The Cadiz
Expedition—Cutting out a Treasure Ship—Prize worth
£200,000—James I. and his Great Ship—Monson as Guardian of the
Narrow Seas—After the British Pirates—One of their Haunts—A
Novel Scheme—Monson as a Pirate himself—Meeting of the sham and
real Pirates—Capture of a Number—Frightened into
Penitence—Another caught by a ruse | 1 |
|
[CHAPTER
II.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| Charles I. and Ship Money—Improvements
made by him in the Navy—His great Ship, the Royal
Sovereign—The Navigation Laws of
Cromwell—Consequent War with the Dutch—Capture of Grand Spanish
Prizes—Charles II. seizes 130 Dutch Ships—Van Tromp and the
Action at Harwich—De Ruyter in the Medway and Thames—Peace—War
with France—La Hogue—Peter the Great and his Naval
Studies—Visit to Sardam—Difficulty of remaining incognito—Cooks his own
Food—His Assiduity and Earnestness—A kind-hearted
Barbarian—Gives a Grand Banquet and Fête—Conveyed to England—His
stay at Evelyn’s Place—Studies at Deptford—Visits Palaces and
Public-houses—His Intemperance—Presents the King with a £10,000
Ruby—Engages numbers of English Mechanics—Return to
Russia—Rapid increase in his Navy—Determines to Build St.
Petersburg—Arrivals of the First Merchantmen—Splendid Treatment
of their Captains—Law’s Mississippi Scheme and the South Sea
Bubble—Two Nations gone Mad—The “Bubble” to pay the National Debt—Its one
Solitary Ship—Noble and Plebeian Stockbrokers—Rise and Fall of
the Bubble—Directors made to Disgorge | 28 |
|
[CHAPTER
III.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| A Grand Epoch of Discovery—Anson’s
Voyage—Difficulties of manning the Fleet—Five Hundred Invalided
Pensioners drafted—The Spanish Squadron under Pizarro—Its
Disastrous Voyage—One Vessel run ashore—Rats at Four Dollars
each—A Man-of-war held by eleven Indians—Anson at the
Horn—Fearful Outbreak of Scurvy—Ashore at Robinson Crusoe’s
Island—Death of two-thirds of the Crews—Beauty of Juan
Fernandez—Loss of the Wager—Drunken and
Insubordinate Crew—Attempt to blow up the Captain—A Midshipman
shot—Desertion of the Ship’s Company—Prizes taken by Anson—His
Humanity to Prisoners—The Gloucester abandoned at
Sea—Delightful Stay at Tinian—The Centurion blown out to
Sea—Despair of those on Shore—Its safe Return—Capture of the
Manilla Galleon—A hot Fight—Prize worth a Million and a half
Dollars—Return to England | 45 |
|
[CHAPTER
IV.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| Progress of the American
Colonies—Great Prevalence of Piracy—Numerous Captures and
Executions—A Proclamation of Pardon—John Theach, or
“Black Beard”—A Desperate
Pirate—Hand-and-glove with the Governor of North
Carolina—Pretends to accept the King’s Pardon—A Blind—His
Defeat and Death—Unwise Legislation and consequent
Irritation—The Stamp Act—The Tea Tax—Enormous
Excitement—Tea-chests thrown into Boston Harbour—Determined
Attitude of the American Colonists—The Boston Port Bill—Its
Effects—Sympathy of all America—The final Rupture—England’s
Wars to the end of the Century—Nelson and the Nile—Battle of
Copenhagen | 62 |
|
[CHAPTER
V.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| Early Paddle-boats—Worked by Animal
Power—Blasco de Garay’s Experiment—Solomon de Caus—David
Ramsey’s Engines—The Marquis of Worcester—A Horse-boat—Boats
worked by Water—By Springs—By Gunpowder—Patrick Miller’s Triple
Vessel—Double Vessels worked by Capstans—The First Practical
Steam-boat—Symington’s [pg
iv]Engines—The Second Steamer—The
Charlotte Dundas—American
Enterprise—James Rumsey’s Oar-boats worked by Steam—Poor
Fitch—Before his Age—Robert Fulton—His Torpedo
Experiments—Wonderful Submarine Boat—Experiments at Brest and
Deal—His first Steam-boat—Breaks in Pieces—Trip of the
Clermont, the first American
Steamer—Opposition to his Vessels—A Pendulum Boat—The first
Steam War-ship—Henry Bell’s Comet | 77 |
|
[CHAPTER
VI.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| The Clyde and its Ship-building
Interests—From Henry Bell to Modern Ship-builders—The First
Royal Naval Steamer—The First regular Sea-going Steamer—The
Revolution in Ship-building—The Iron Age—“Will Iron Float?”—The Invention of the
Screw-propeller—Ericsson, Smith, and Woodcroft—American
’Cuteness—Captain Stockton and his Boat—The First Steamer to
Cross the Atlantic—Voyages of the Sirius and Great
Western—The International Struggle—The Collins
and Cunard Lines—Fate of the Arctic—The Pacific never heard of
more—Why the Cunard Company has been Successful—Splendid
Discipline on board their Vessels—The Fleets that leave the
Mersey | 97 |
|
[CHAPTER
VII.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| A Contrast—Floating Palaces and
“Coffin-ships”—Mr. Plimsoll’s
Appeal—His Philanthropic Efforts—Use of Old
Charts—Badly-constructed Ships—A Doomed Ship—Owner’s Gains by
her Loss—A Sensible Deserter—Overloading—The Widows and
Fatherless—Other Risks of the Sailor’s Life—Scurvy—Improper
Cargoes—“Unclassed
Vessels”—“Lloyd’s” and
its History | 112 |
|
[CHAPTER
VIII.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued.)] | |
| The Largest Ship in the World—History
of the Great Eastern—Why she was
Built—Brunel and Scott Russell—Story of the Launch—Powerful
Machinery Employed—Christened by Miss Hope—Failure to move her
more than a few feet—A Sad Accident—Launching by Inches—Afloat
at last—Dimensions—Accommodations—The Grand Saloon—The
Paddle-wheel and Screw Engines—First Sea Trip—Speed—In her
first Gale—Serious Explosion on Board off Hastings—Proves a
fine Sea-boat—Drowning of her Captain and others—First
Transatlantic Voyage—Defects in Boilers and Machinery—Behaves
splendidly in mid-ocean—Grand Reception in New York—Subsequent
Trips—Used as a Troop-ship to Canada—Carried out 2,600
Soldiers—An eventful Passenger Trip—Caught in a Cyclone
Hurricane—Her Paddles almost wrenched away—Rudder
Disabled—Boats carried away—Shifting of Heavy Cargo—The
Leviathan a Gigantic Waif on the Ocean—Return to Cork | 129 |
|
[CHAPTER
IX.] | |
| [THE
HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTERESTS (continued).] | |
| The Ironclad Question—One of the
Topics of the Day—What is to be their Value in Warfare?—Story
of the Dummy Ironclad—Two real Ironclads vanquished by
it—Experience on board an American Monitor—Visit of the
Miantonoma to St. John’s—Her
Tour round the World—Her Turrets and interior
Arrangements—Firing off the Big Guns—Inside the
Turret—“Prepare!”—Effects of the
Firing—A Boatswain’s-mate’s Opinion—The Monitor goes round the World
safely—Few of the Original American Ironclads left—English
Ironclads—The Warrior—Various
Types—Iron-built—Wood-built—Wood-covered—The Greatest Result
yet attained, the Inflexible—Circular
Ironclads—The “Garde
Côtes”—Cost of Ironclads—The Torpedo
Question—The Marquis of Worcester’s Inventions—Bishop Wilkins’
Subaqueous Ark—Fulton’s Experiments—A Frightened Audience—A
Hulk Blown Up—Government Aid to Fulton—The Argus and her “Crinoline”—Torpedoes successfully
foiled—Their use during the American War—Brave Lieut.
Cushing—The Albemarle Destroyed—Modern
Torpedoes: the “Lay;” the
“Whitehead”—Probable Manner of
using in an Engagement—The Ram and its Power | 138 |
|
[CHAPTER
X.] | |
| [THE
LIGHTHOUSE AND ITS HISTORY.] | |
| The Lighthouse—Our most noted one in
Danger—The Eddystone Undermined—The Ancient History of
Lighthouses—The Pharos of Alexandria—Roman Light Towers at
Boulogne and Dover—Fire-beacons and Pitch-pots—The Tower of
Cordouan—The First Eddystone Lighthouse—Winstanley and his
Eccentricities—Difficulties of Building his Wooden
Structure—Resembles a Pagoda—The Structure Swept away with its
Inventor—Another Silk Mercer in the Field—Rudyerd’s
Lighthouse—Built of Wood—Stood for Fifty Years—Creditable
Action of Louis XIV.—Lighthouse Keeper alone with a Corpse—The
Horrors of a Month—Rudyerd’s Tower destroyed by Fire—Smeaton’s
Early History—Employed to Build the present Eddystone—Resolves
on a Stone Tower—Employment of “Dove-tailing” in Masonry—Difficulties of
Landing on the Rock—Peril incurred by the Workmen—The First
Season’s Work—Smeaton always in the Post of Danger—Watching the
Rock from Plymouth Hoe—The Last Season—Vibrations of the Tower
in a Storm—Has stood for 120 years—Joy of the Mariner when
“The Eddystone’s in
Sight!”—Lights in the English Channel | 156 |
|
[CHAPTER
XI.] | |
| [THE
LIGHTHOUSE (continued).] | |
| The Bell Rock—The good Abbot of
Arberbrothok—Ralph the Rover—Rennie’s grand Lighthouse—Perils
of the Work—Thirty-two Men apparently doomed to Destruction—A
New Form of outward Construction—Its successful Completion—The
Skerryvore Lighthouse and Alan Stevenson—Novel Barracks on the
Rock—Swept Away in a Storm—The unshapely Seal and unfortunate
Cod—Half-starved Workmen—Out of Tobacco—Difficulties of Landing
the Stones—Visit of M. de Quatrefages to Héhaux—Description of
the Lighthouse Exterior—How it rocks—Practice versus Theory—The Interior—A
Parisian Apartment at Sea | 172 |
|
[CHAPTER
XII.] | |
| [THE
LIGHTHOUSE (concluded).] | |
| Lighthouses on Sand—Literally screwed
down—The Light on Maplin Sands—That of Port Fleetwood—Iron
Lighthouses—The Lanterns themselves—Eddystone long illuminated
with Tallow Candles—Coal Fires—Revolution caused by the
invention of the Argand Burner—Improvements in Reflectors—The
Electric Light at Sea—Flashing and Revolving Lights—Coloured
Lights—Their Advantages and Disadvantages—Lanterns obscured by
Moths, Bees, and Birds | 182 |
|
[CHAPTER
XIII.] | |
| [THE
BREAKWATER.] | |
| Breakwaters, Ancient and Modern—Origin
and History of that at Cherbourg—Stones Sunk in Wooden
Cones—Partial Failure of the Plan—Millions of Tons dropped to
the Bottom—The Breakwater temporarily abandoned—Completed by
Napoleon III.—A Port Bristling with Guns—Rennie’s Plymouth
Breakwater—Ingenious Mode of Depositing the Stones—Lessons of
the Sea—The Waves the best Workmen—Completion of the Work—Grand
Double Breakwater at Portland—The English Cherbourg—A
Magnificent Piece of Engineering—Utilisation of Otherwise
worthless Stone—900 Convicts at Work—The Great
Fortifications—The Verne—Gibraltar at Home—A Gigantic
Fosse—Portland almost Impregnable—Breakwaters Elsewhere | 188 |
|
[CHAPTER
XIV.] | |
| [THE
GREATEST STORM IN ENGLISH HISTORY.] | |
| The Dangers of the Seas—England’s
Interest in the Matter—The Shipping and Docks of London and
Liverpool—The Goodwin Sands and their History—The “Hovellers”—The Great Gale of 1703—Defoe’s
Graphic Account—Thirteen Vessels of the Royal Navy
Lost—Accounts of Eye-witnesses—The Storm Universal over
England—Great Damage and Loss of Life at
Bristol—Plymouth—Portsmouth—Vessels Driven to Holland—At the
Spurn Light—Inhumanity of Deal Townsmen—A worthy Mayor saves
200 Lives—The Damage in the Thames—Vessels Drifting in all
Directions—800 Boats Lost—Loss of Life on the River—On
Shore—Remarkable Escapes and Casualties—London in a Condition
of Wreck—Great Damage to Churches—A Bishop and his Lady
Killed—A Remarkable Water-Spout—Total Losses Fearful | 197 |
|
[CHAPTER
XV.] | |
| [“MAN THE LIFE-BOAT!”] | |
| The Englishman’s direct interest in
the Sea—The History of the Life-boat and its Work—Its Origin—A
Coach-builder the First Inventor—Lionel Lukin’s Boat—Royal
Encouragement—Wreck of the Adventure—The Poor Crew
Drowned in sight of Thousands—Good out of Evil—The South
Shields Committee and their Prize Boat—Wouldhave and
Greathead—The latter rewarded by Government, &c.—Slow
Progress of the Life-boat Movement—The Old Boat at
Redcar—Organisation of the National Life-boat Institution—Sir
William Hillary’s Brave Deeds—Terrible Losses at the Isle of
Man—Loss of Three Life-boats—Reorganisation of the
Society—Immense Competition for a Prize—Beeching’s “Self-righting” Boats—Buoyancy and
Ballast—Dangers of the Service—A Year’s Wrecks | 209 |
|
[CHAPTER
XVI.] | |
| [“MAN THE LIFE-BOAT!” (continued).] | |
| A “Dirty” Night on the Sands—Wreck of the
Samaritano—The Vessel
boarded by Margate and Whitstable Men—A Gale in its Fury—The
Vessel breaking up—Nineteen Men in the Fore-rigging—Two Margate
Life-boats Wrecked—Fate of a Lugger—The Scene at
Ramsgate—“Man the
Life-boat!”—The good Steamer Aid—The Life-boat Towed
out—A terrible Trip—A grand Struggle with the Elements—The Flag
of Distress made out—How to reach it—The Life-boat cast off—On
through the Breakers—The Wreck reached at last—Difficulties of
Rescuing the Men—The poor little Cabin-boy—The Life-boat
crowded—A moment of great Peril—The Steamer reached at
last—Back to Ramsgate—The Reward of Merit—Loss of a Passenger
Steamer—The Three Lost Corpses—The Emigrant Ship on the Sands—A
Splendid Night’s Work | 215 |
|
[CHAPTER
XVII.] | |
| [“MAN THE LIFE-BOAT!” (continued).] | |
| A Portuguese Brig on the Sands—Futile
Attempts to get her off—Sudden Break-up—Great Danger to the
Life-boat—Great Probability of being Crushed—An Old Boatman’s
Feelings—The Life-boat herself on the Goodwin—Safe at
Last—Gratitude of the Portuguese Crew—A Blaze of Light seen
from Deal—Fatal Delay—Twenty-eight Lives Lost—A dark December
Night—The almost-deserted Wreck of the Providentia—A Plucky
Captain—An awful Episode—The Mate beaten to Death—Hardly
saved—The poor little Cabin-boy’s Rescue—Another Wreck on the
Sands—Many Attempts to rescue the Crew—Determination of the
Boatmen—Victory or Death!—The Aid Steamer nearly wrecked—A
novel and successful Experiment—Anchoring on Board—The Crew
Saved | 225 |
|
[CHAPTER
XVIII.] | |
| [“WRECKING” AS A
PROFESSION.] | |
| Probable Fate of a rich Vessel in the
Middle Ages—Maritime Laws of the Period—The King’s
Privileges—Cœur de Lion and his Enactments—The Rôles
d’Oleron—False Pilots and Wicked Lords—Stringent Laws of George
II.—The Homeward-bound Vessel—Plotting Wreckers—Lured
Ashore—“Dead Men Tell no
Tales”—A Series of Facts—Brutality to a Captain and his
Wife—Fate of a Plunderer—Defence of a Ship against Hundreds of
Wreckers—Another Example—Ship Boarded by Peasantry—Police
Attacked by Thousands—Cavalry Charge the Wreckers—Hundreds of
Drunken Plunderers—A Curious Tract of the Last Century—A
Professional Wrecker’s Arguments—A Candid Bahama Pilot | 235 |
|
[CHAPTER
XIX.] | |
| [“HOVELLING” v. WRECKING.] | |
| The Contrast—The “Hovellers” defended—Their Services—The Case
of the Albion—Anchors and Cables
wanted by a disabled Vessel—Lugger wrecked on the Beach—Dangers
of the Hoveller’s Life—Nearly swamped by the heavy Seas—Loss of
a baling Bowl, and what it means—Saved on an American Ship—The
Lost Found—A brilliant example of Life-saving at Bideford—The
Small Rewards of the Hoveller’s Life—The case of La
Marguerite—Nearly wrecked in Port—Hovellers
v. Wreckers—“Let’s all start fair!”—Praying for
Wrecks | 245 |
|
[CHAPTER
XX.] | |
| [SHIPS
THAT “PASS
BY ON THE OTHER SIDE.”] | |
| Captains and Owners—Reasons for
apparent Inhumanity—A Case in Point—The Wreck of the
Northfleet—Run down by the
Murillo—A Noble Captain—The
Vessel Lost, with a Hundred Ships near her—One within Three
Hundred Yards—Official Inquiry—Loss of the Schiller—Two Hundred Drowned
in one heavy Sea—Life-saving Apparatus of little use—Lessons of
the Disaster—Wreck of the Deutschland—Harwich blamed
unjustly—The good Tug-boat Liverpool and her
Work—Necessity of proper Communication with Light-houses and
Light-ships—The new Signal Code and old Semaphores | 261 |
|
[CHAPTER
XXI.] | |
| [A
CONTRAST—THE SHIP ON FIRE!—SWAMPED AT SEA.] | |
| The Loss of the Amazon—A Noble
Vessel—Description of her Engine-rooms—Her Boats—Heating of the
Machinery—The Ship on Fire—Communication cut off—The Ominous
Fire-bell—The Vessel put before the Wind—A Headlong
Course—Impossibility of Launching the Boats—“Every Man for Himself!”—The Boats on
Fire—Horrible Cases of Roasting—Boats Stove in and Upset—The
Remnant of Survivors—“Passing by on the
Other Side”—Loss of a distinguished Author—A Clergyman’s
Experiences—A Graphic Description—Without Food, Water, Oars,
Helm, or Compass—Blowing-up of the Amazon—“A Sail!”—Saved on the Dutch Galliot—Back
from the Dead—Review of the Catastrophe—A Contrast—Loss of the
London—Anxiety to get Berths
on her—The First Disaster—Terrible Weather—Swamped by the
Seas—The Furnaces Drowned out—Efforts to replace a
Hatchway—Fourteen Feet of Water in the Hold—“Boys, you may say your Prayers!”—Scene in
the Saloon—The Last Prayer Meeting—Worthy Draper—Incidents—Loss
of an Eminent Tragedian—His Last Efforts—The Bottle Washed
Ashore—Nineteen Saved out of Two Hundred and Sixty-three Souls
on Board—Noble Captain Martin—The London’s Last Plunge—The
Survivors picked up by an Italian Barque | 278 |
|
[CHAPTER
XXII.] | |
| [EARLY
STEAMSHIP WRECKS AND THEIR LESSONS.] | |
| The Rothsay
Castle—An Old Vessel, unfit for Sea Service—A Gay
Starting—Drifting to the Fatal Sands—The Steamer Strikes—A
Scene of Panic—Lost within easy reach of Assistance—An
Imprudent Pilot—Statements of Survivors—A Father and Son parted
and re-united—Heartrending Episodes—The Other Side: Saved by an
Umbrella—Loss of the Killarney—Severe Weather—The
Engine-fires Swamped—At the Mercy of the Waves—On the Rocks—The
Crisis—Half the Passengers and Crew on an Isolated
Rock—Spolasco and his Child—Holding on for Dear Life—Hundreds
Ashore “Wrecking”—No Attempts to
Save the Survivors—Several Washed Off—Deaths from
Exhaustion—“To the
Rescue!”—Noble Efforts—Failure of Several Plans—A Novel
Expedient adopted—Its Perils—Another Dreary Night—Good
Samaritans—A Noble Lady—Saved at Last—The Inventor’s
Description of the Rope Bridge—The Wreck Register for One
Year—Grand Work of the Lifeboat Institution | 297 |
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![[On the Coast at Deal]](#illo_263.png){kind=link}
![[Rescue of the Danish Vessel]](#illo_267.jpg){kind=link}
![[Survivors Rescued from the Rigging of a Wreck]](#illo_268.jpg){kind=link}
![[Wreckers Waiting for a Wreck]](#illo_274.jpg){kind=link}
![[Major Warburton at the Wreck of the Inverness]](#illo_279.png){kind=link}
![[A Wreck Ashore]](#illo_276.jpg){kind=link}
![[Loss of the Albion Lugger]](#illo_283.jpg){kind=link}
![[Map showing Coast of Ramsgate and the Goodwin Sands]](#illo_287.png){kind=link}
![[Wreck of the Woolpacket on Bideford Bar]](#illo_288.jpg){kind=link}
![[The Lugger reaching Ramsgate Harbour]](#illo_290.jpg){kind=link}
![[Ronayne’s Bravery]](#illo_294.png){kind=link}
![[The Northfleet]](#illo_297.png){kind=link}
![[Wreck of the Northfleet]](#illo_302.png){kind=link}
![[The Scilly Islands]](#illo_305.png){kind=link}
![[The Bishop Rock Lighthouse]](#illo_306.png){kind=link}
![[Wreck of the Deutschland]](#illo_309.jpg){kind=link}
![[Burning of the Amazon]](#illo_318.jpg){kind=link}
![[The Amazon Steam-ship]](#illo_320.png){kind=link}
![[Rescue of the Survivors of the Amazon]](#illo_323.jpg){kind=link}
![[The London]](#illo_328.png){kind=link}
![[The London Going Down]](#illo_331.png){kind=link}
![[Getting out the London’s Boats]](#illo_335.png){kind=link}
![[Wreck of the Rothsay Castle]](#illo_336.jpg){kind=link}
![[The Menai Straits]](#illo_341.jpg){kind=link}
![[Saved at Last]](#illo_346.jpg){kind=link}
![[Beaumaris]](#illo_348.png){kind=link}
![[Entrance to Cork Harbour]](#illo_351.png){kind=link}
![[The Survivors on the Rock]](#illo_355.png){kind=link}
![[Rescue of the Survivors of the Killarney]](#illo_359.jpg){kind=link}
