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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
[The Naval Flags of the World]Coloured Frontispiece
[Raleigh at Trinidad]To face page 5
[Sir Walter Raleigh]5
[Raleigh on the River]9
[Monson and the Biscayan Ship]12
[Monson at Cadiz]17
[Action in Cerimbra Roads]21
[Monson at Broad Haven]25
[De Ruyter on the Medway]32
[Peter the Great]33
[The Imperial Workman receiving a Deputation]36
[Old Dockyard at Deptford]37
[Saye’s Court, Deptford]39
[Commodore Anson]45
[The Centurion off Cape Horn]49
[Surrender of the Carmelo]56
[Anson taking the Spanish Galleon]61
[Cape Cod]64
[The Dartmouth in Boston Harbour]65
[Destruction of the Tea Cargoes]72
[Nelson and the Bear]73
[Nelson at Copenhagen]To face page 76
[Lord Nelson]76
[The Charlotte Dundas]84
[Symington]85
[Outline of Fitch’s First Boat]89
[Fitch’s Second Boat]89
[The Clermont]93
[Bell’s Comet]96
[Four Great Engineers]To face page 97
[The United Kingdom]99
[Arrival of the Great Western at New York]100
[Section and Plan of the Stern of a Screw Steamer]101
[The Robert F. Stockton]103
[The First Cunard Steamer]105
[Cunard Paddle Steam-ship Scotia]109
[The Cunard Screw Steam-ship Bothnia]109
[Mr. Plimsoll]112
[Mr. Plimsoll Speaking in the House of Commons]116
[Exterior of Lloyd’s]124
[Interior of Lloyd’s]125
[The Great Eastern in a Gale off Cape Clear]To face page 129
[Mr. I. K. Brunel]129
[Mr. Scott Russell]129
[The Launch of the Great Eastern]133
[Arrival of the Great Eastern at New York]136
[The Monitor passing the Vicksburg Batteries]138
[Peace and War]
[The Miantonoma]140
[Interior of a Turret Ship]141
[The Inflexible]145
[Section of the Alexandra]147
[Preparing for Torpedo Experiments at Portsmouth]
[The Old Style and the New (a Three-decker and a Torpedo Boat)]
[Lieutenant Cushing’s Attack on the Albemarle]149
[Different Forms of Torpedoes]153
[Torpedo Experiments at Portsmouth, with the Electric Light]
[Paraguayan Torpedo blowing up a Brazilian Ironclad]154
[The Tower of Cordouan]157
[Destruction of Rudyerd’s Lighthouse]To face page 161
[Winstanley’s Lighthouse]161
[Rudyerd’s Lighthouse]161
[The Eddystone Lighthouse]168
[Portrait of Smeaton]170
[Interior of the Light-chamber of the Eddystone]171
[Lighthouse on the Inchcape Rock]176
[The Skerryvore Lighthouse]178
[Revolving Light Apparatus]184
[Breakwater at Venice]188
[Cherbourg from the Sea]192
[Portland]193
[Holyhead Breakwater]196
[Great Storm in the Downs]200
[The Storm in the Thames at Wapping]204
[West-Indiamen Driven Ashore at Tilbury Fort]205
[A Life-boat Going Out]To face page 209
[Greathead’s Life-boat]209
[Life-boat Saving the Crew of the St. George]213
[Loss of a Life-boat at the Shipwreck of the Ann]216
[A Life-boat and Carriage—Latest Form]217
[Ramsgate—The Aid Going Out]220
[“Curly” weather]
[A Group of Life-boat Men]229
[On the Coast at Deal]232
[Rescue of the Danish Vessel]236
[Survivors Rescued from the Rigging of a Wreck]
[Wreckers Waiting for a Wreck]241
[Major Warburton at the Wreck of the Inverness]244
[A Wreck Ashore]
[Loss of the Albion Lugger]248
[Map showing Coast of Ramsgate and the Goodwin Sands]252
[Wreck of the Woolpacket on Bideford Bar]To face page 253
[The Lugger reaching Ramsgate Harbour]253
[Ronayne’s Bravery]257
[The Northfleet]260
[Wreck of the Northfleet]265
[The Scilly Islands]268
[The Bishop Rock Lighthouse]269
[Wreck of the Deutschland]272
[Burning of the Amazon]To face page 281
[The Amazon Steam-ship]281
[Rescue of the Survivors of the Amazon]284
[The London]289
[The London Going Down]292
[Getting out the London’s Boats]296
[Wreck of the Rothsay Castle]To face page 297
[The Menai Straits]300
[Saved at Last]
[Beaumaris]305
[Entrance to Cork Harbour]308
[The Survivors on the Rock]312
[Rescue of the Survivors of the Killarney]316

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THE SEA.

CHAPTER I.