| 2. | The Oldest Known Ships. About 6000 b.c. | [10] |
| 3. | Egyptian Boat of the Time of the Third Dynasty | [11] |
| †4. | Egyptian Boat of the Time of the Fourth Dynasty | [13] |
| *5. | Nile Barge carrying Obelisks. About 1600 b.c. | [20] |
| 6. | Battleship of Ramses III. About 1200 b.c. | [24] |
| 7. | Portion of a Phœnician Galley. About 700 b.c. From Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | [27] |
| 8. | Greek Unireme. About 500 b.c. | [30] |
| 9. | Greek Bireme. About 500 b.c. | [31] |
| 10. | Fragment of a Greek Galley showing absence of Deck. About 550 b.c. | [32] |
| 11. | Galley showing Deck and Superstructure. About 600 b.c. From an Etruscan imitation of a Greek vase | [34] |
| 12. | Greek Merchant-ship. About 500 b.c. | [39] |
| 13. | Roman Merchant-ship | [40] |
| †14. | Probable Arrangement of Oar-ports in Ancient Galleys | [48] |
| 15. | Suggested Arrangement of Oar-ports in an Octoreme | [48] |
| 16. | Roman Galley. About 110 a.d | [49] |
| 17. | Liburnian Galley. Conjectural Restoration | [50] |
| 18. | Stem and Stern Ornaments of Galleys | [52] |
| 19. | Bow of Ancient War-galley | [53] |
| 20. | Bow of Ancient War-galley | [54] |
| 21. | Anglo-Saxon Ship. About 900 a.d. | [57] |
| 22-26. | Viking Ship | [60] |
| 27. | One of William the Conqueror's Ships. 1066 a.d. | [66] |
| †28. | Sandwich Seal. 1238 | [71] |
| †29. | Dover Seal. 1284 | [72] |
| †30. | Poole Seal. 1325 | [75] |
| 31. | Venetian Galley. Fourteenth Century | [78] |
| 32. | Cross-section of a Venetian Galleon | [79] |
| 33. | Venetian Galleon. 1564 | [80] |
| 34. | Italian Sailing-ship. Fifteenth Century | [81] |
| 35. | English Ship. Time of Richard II. | [81] |
| 36. | English Ship. Time of Henry VI. | [83] |
| 37. | English Ship. Latter Half of Fifteenth Century | [86] |
| 38. | Columbus' Ship, the "Santa Maria." 1492 | [87] |
| 39. | Sail-plan of the "Santa Maria" | [88] |
| 40. | Lines of the "Santa Maria" | [91] |
| 41. | The "Henry Grace À Dieu." 1514. Pepysian Library, Cambridge | [93] |
| 42. | The "Henry Grace À Dieu." After Allen | [94] |
| 43. | Genoese Carrack. 1542 | [96] |
| 44. | Spanish Galleass. 1588 | [97] |
| 45. | English Man-of-war. About 1588 | [102] |
| 46. | Venetian Galleass. 1571 | [103] |
| 47. | The "Prince Royal." 1610 | [105] |
| 48. | The "Sovereign of the Seas." 1637 | [109] |
| 49. | The "Royal Charles." 1673 | [113] |
| 50. | The "Soleil Royal." 1683 | [115] |
| 51. | The "Hollandia." 1683 | [116] |
| 52. | British Second-rate. 1665 | [119] |
| 53. | Midship Section of a Fourth-rate. End of Seventeenth Century | [120] |
| 54. | The "Falmouth." East Indiaman. Launched 1752 | [124] |
| 55. | The "Royal George." 1746 | [127] |
| 56. | The "Commerce de Marseille. 1792 | [130] |
| 57. | British First-rate. 1794 | [132] |
| 58. | British First-rate. 1794 | [133] |
| 59. | Heavy French Frigate of 1780 | [134] |
| 60. | Heavy French Frigate of 1780 | [135] |
| 61. | The "Howe." 1815 | [136] |
| 62. | Sir Robert Seppings' System of Construction | [138] |
| 63. | Sir Robert Seppings' System of Construction | [139] |
| 64. | Sir Robert Seppings' System of Construction | [140] |
| 65. | The "Waterloo" | [141] |
| 66. | The "Queen" | [143] |
| †67. | The "Thames." East Indiaman. 1819 | [144] |
| †68. | The "Thetis." West Indiaman | [146] |
| †69. | Free-Trade Barque | [148] |
| ‡70. | The "Bazaar." American Cotton-ship. 1832 | [149] |
| ‡71. | The "Sir John Franklin." American Transatlantic Sailing-packet. 1840 | [151] |
| ‡72. | The "Ocean Herald." American Clipper. 1855 | [152] |
| ‡73. | The "Great Republic." American Clipper. 1853 | [154] |
| 74. | Archaic Greek Bireme. About 800 b.c. | [158] |
The illustrations marked * are published by kind permission of the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Those marked † are taken from "The History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce," and were kindly lent by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. Those marked ‡ are reproduced from "La Marine Française de 1792 à nos jours," by l'Amiral Paris.