[118] This vessel was until recently in Portsmouth Harbour.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The page number in the caption of Plate illustrations, a typesetter indicator, has been removed. These Plates are indicated by the words ‘to face’ in the List of Illustrations.
Many illustrations have been moved to be closer to the related text.
All occurrences of ‘Memlinc’ have been changed to ‘Memling’.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg 37]: ‘again been stretched’ replaced by ‘again being stretched’.
[Pg 94]: ‘ancient Northener’ replaced by ‘ancient Northerner’.
[Pg 94]: ‘found that be could’ replaced by ‘found that he could’.
[Pg 201]: ‘and at at any rate’ replaced by ‘and at any rate’.
[Pg 276]: ‘on the i en a single’ replaced by ‘on the mizzen a single’.
[Pg 276]: ‘continu till they’ replaced by ‘continued till they’.
[Pg 328]: ‘nas been made’ replaced by ‘has been made’.
[Pg 339]: ‘postliminis reversis’ replaced by ‘postliminio reversis’.
[Pg 340]: ‘Darenburg, Ch.’ replaced by ‘Daremberg, Ch.’.
[Pg 347]: ‘Capelle, Jan’ replaced by ‘Cappelle, Jan’.
[Pg 352]: ‘Mainwayring, Sir’ replaced by ‘Manwayring, Sir’.
[Pg 358]: ‘Vahalla’ replaced by ‘Valhalla’.