[177] Letter Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, Whitehall, June 19, 1908.
[178] Initiated by Mrs. Clementina Fessenden, of Hamilton, Canada, in 1898.
[179] Hakluyt.
[180] Hannay: "Short History of the British Navy."
[181] Extract from Pepys' Diary.
[182] He was at the time a vice-admiral of the white and the senior officer present.
[183] Order in Council, October 18th, 1865.
[184] In the present day, when ironclads have not more than two, and often only one mast, vice-admirals wear the St. George with one red ball in the upper corner, and rear-admirals with two red balls, to indicate their respective rank.
[185] The Merchant Shipping (Colours) Act, 1889.
[186] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 62, p. 449.