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| A Ship of Yesterday (a tea clipper before the wind) [To face title-page] |
| A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Dockyard [Headpiece to Preface] |
| Spithead in the Early Nineteenth Century | [2] |
| Old-fashioned Topsail Schooner | [8] |
| “River sailors rather than blue-water seamen” | [13] |
| “Mine be a mattress on the poop” | [34] |
| Cast of a Relief showing Rowers on a Trireme | [38] |
| Vase in the form of a Trireme’s Prow | [42] |
| Portions of Early Mediterranean Anchor | [44] |
| Shield Signalling | [49] |
| Greek Penteconter from an Ancient Vase | [51] |
| The Egyptian Corn-Ship Goddess Isis | [58] |
| The “Korax” or Boarding Bridge in Action | [63] |
| Sketches of Ancient Ships, by Richard Cook, R.A. | [64] |
| Ancient Coins illustrating Types of Rams | [65] |
| Bronze Figurehead of Roman Ship | [66] |
| Sketches of Ancient Ships, by Richard Cook, R.A. | [66] |
| Two Coins depicting Naumachiæ | [68] |
| A Roman Naumachia | [68] |
| Chart to illustrate Cæsar’s crossing the English Channel | [71] |
| Hull of Roman Ship found at Westminster | [78] |
| Details of Roman Ship found at Westminster | [80] |
| Details of Roman Ship found at Westminster | [82] |
| Primitive Navigation of the Vikings | [89] |
| Details of Viking Ships and Tackle | [99] |
| Vikings boarding an Enemy | [102] |
| Viking Ship with Awning up | [111] |
| Thirteenth-Century Merchant Sailing Ship | [123] |
| Fourteenth-Century Portolano of the Mediterranean | [124] |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | [126] |
| Fifteenth-Century Shipbuilding Yard | [132] |
| A Fifteenth-Century Ship | [134] |
| The Fleet of Richard I setting forth for the Crusades | [139] |
| A Medieval Sea-going Ship | [146] |
| Fifteenth-Century Caravel, after a Delineation by Columbus | [158] |
| “Ordered the crew ... to lay out an anchor astern” | [162] |
| Fifteenth-Century Caravel, after a Delineation by Columbus | [164] |
| Three-masted Caravel | [166] |
| Sixteenth-Century Caravel at Sea | [166] |
| Sixteenth-Century Caravel at Anchor | [170] |
| Sixteenth-Century Astrolabe supposed to have been on board a Ship of the Armada | [172] |
| Astrolabe used by the English Sixteenth-Century Navigators | [173] |
| Sixteenth-Century Navigator using the Cross-staff | [176] |
| Sixteenth-Century Compass Card | [177] |
| An Old Nocturnal | [178] |
| Sixteenth-Century Four-Masted Ship | [186] |
| Elizabethans boarding an Enemy’s Ship | [187] |
| Elizabethan Steering-Gear | [189] |
| Sixteenth-Century Ship chasing a Galley | [190] |
| Waist, Quarter-deck, and Poop of the Revenge | [192] |
| Sixteenth-Century Three-masted Ship | [192] |
| Riding Bitts on the Gun Deck of the Revenge | [195] |
| Plan of Early Seventeenth-Century Ship | [197] |
| Sixteenth-Century Warship at Anchor | [198] |
| Drake’s Revenge at Sea | [201] |
| Sixteenth-Century Mariners learning Navigation | [206] |
| Chart of A.D. 1589 | [211] |
| Ship Designer with his Assistant | [212] |
| Chart of the Thames from the First Published Atlas | [214] |
| Diagram illustrating the use of the “Geometricall Square” | [215] |
| Sixteenth-Century Ship before the wind | [216] |
| Early Seventeenth-Century Warship | [218] |
| Early Seventeenth-Century Harbour | [222] |
| Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch East Indiamen | [226] |
| “The Perspective Appearance of a Ship’s Body” | [228] |
| “The Orthographick Simmetrye” of a Seventeenth-Century Ship | [230] |
| Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch West Indiamen | [232] |
| Fitting out a Seventeenth-Century Dutch West Indiaman | [236] |
| Seventeenth-Century Dutch Shipbuilding Yard | [240] |
| Seventeenth-Century First-Rate Ship | [244] |
| Section of a Three-Decker | [246] |
| Nocturnal | [247] |
| Building and launching Ships in the Eighteenth Century | [248] |
| Collier Brig | [250] |
| Boxhauling | [252] |
| Eighteenth-Century “Bittacle” | [253] |
| Interiors of Eighteenth-Century Men-of-War | [254] |
| Quarter-deck of an Eighteenth-Century Frigate | [255] |
| Collier Brig discharging Cargo | [256] |
| Eighteenth-Century Man-of-War | [258] |
| Collier Brigs beating up the Swin | [259] |
| Model of H.M.S. Triumph | [260] |
| “Compelled to let the ship lie almost on her beam ends” | [261] |
| An interesting bit of Seamanship | [262] |
| An ingenious Sail-Spread | [264] |
| Eighteenth-Century Three-Decker | [266] |
| Sterns of the Invincible and Glorioso | [268] |
| Model of an English Frigate, 1750 | [270] |
| A 32-gun Frigate ready for Launching | [272] |
| Launching a Man-of-War in the year 1805 | [274] |
| Sheer-Hulk | [276] |
| H.M.S. Prince | [278] |
| An Early Nineteenth-Century Design for a Man-of-War’s Stern | [280] |
| Course, Topsail, and Topgallant Sail of an Early Nineteenth-Century Ship | [281] |
| Stern of H.M.S. Asia | [282] |
| A Brig of War’s 12-pounder Carronade | [283] |
| A West Indiaman in Course of Construction | [284] |
| A Three-Decker on a Wind | [285] |
| The Brig Wolf | [286] |
| A Frigate under all Sail | [287] |
| Man in the Chains heaving the Lead | [287] |
| H.M.S. Cleopatra endeavouring to save the Crew of the Brig Fisher | [288] |
| H.M.S. Hastings | [289] |
| Model of the Carmarthenshire | [290] |
| PLANS |
| (At End of Volume) |
| [I.] | Body Plan, etc., of Early Nineteenth-Century 74-gun Ship. | | [II.] | A Portable Crab Winch of the Early Nineteenth Century. | | [III.] | Longitudinal Plan of Early Nineteenth-Century 74-gun Ship. | | [IV.] | A 330-ton Merchant Ship of the Early Nineteenth Century. | | [V.] | Shrouds of Mainmast on Early Nineteenth-Century Ship. | | [VI.] | Design of the Stern of Early Nineteenth-Century 330-ton Merchant Ship. | | [VII.] | Midship section of Early Nineteenth-Century 330-ton Merchant Ship. | | [VIII.] | Longitudinal Plan of Early Nineteenth-Century 330-ton Merchant Ship. | | [IX.] | Plans of Early Nineteenth-Century 74-gun Ship. | | [X.] | Iron Clipper Sailing Ship Lord of the Isles. | | [XI.] | The Wooden Clipper Ship Schomberg. |
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