[ Eddystone Lighthouse, 1699. The first structure of stone and timber. Build for Trinity House by Winstanley and swept away in a storm. Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882. The fourth and present structure, erected by Sir J. N. Douglass for Trinity House. ]

[ The Santa Maria, flagship of Christopher Columbus when he discovered America in 1492. Length of keel, 60 feet. Length of ship proper, 93 feet. Length over all, 128 feet. Breadth, 26 feet. Tonnage, full displacement, 233. ]

[ DRAKE ]

[ One of Drake's Men-of-War that Fought the Great Armada in 1588. ]

[ ARMADA OFF FOWEY (Cornwall) as first seen in the English Channel. ]

[ SIR FRANCIS DRAKE ON BOARD THE REVENGE receiving the surrender of Don Pedro de Valdes. ]

[ SAILING SHIP. The Pilgrim Fathers crossed in a similar vessel (1620). ]

[ LA HOGUE, 1692. ]

[ H.M.S. Centurion engaged and took the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senhora de Capadongo, from Acapulco bound to Manila, off Cape Espiritu Santo, Philippine Islands, June 20, 1743. ]

[ The ROYAL GEORGE ]