customs duties,41-2,45
Cuxhaven,bombing of,546
Cyprus,Turkish invasion,630
Cyrene,489
Dakar,attack on French navy,579
Danaé,466
Danegeld,24-5
Danelaw,11-12,18-19
d’Annebault,Claude,89
Darby,Captain Henry,412,415,418-19
Dardanelles Campaign,532,578
Dartmouth,Lord(George Legge),252,263-5
Darwin,Charles,ⅹⅹⅰ-ⅹⅹⅳ
Day,John,77
de la Clue,Admiral Jean-Francois,333-4
de Ruyter,Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon,197-8,203,205,244,246-7,253-4,595
de Silva,Don Guzman,96
de With,Admiral Witte,174,182,196-201,209
de Witt,Johan,238,246
Deal Castle,219
Deane,General Richard,203-4,206,211
Declaration of Breda,220
Declaration of Paris,482
Defiance,129
Defoe,Daniel,345
Delaware,river,356
Denbigh,Lord,168
Denmark Strait,Battle of the,585-6
Deptford dry dock,110
Derwent,river,11
d’Estaing,Admiral Charles Hector,Comte,348,356
destroyers,505,561,596
Deutschland,571
Dévastation,488
Dias,Bartolomeu,74
Dieppe,burning of,53
discipline:40,50,138,202,371;Anson’s reforms,319-21;and Battle of Trafalgar,450,456;Howe’s reforms,352,355;in Nelson’s navy,388-90,392,395-6,409-10,424-5,436;Restoration reforms,230-1;in Victorian navy,494,498,509
Diu,Battle of,80
Dnieper,river,488
Dogger Bank,Battle of(Dutch war),372
Dogger Bank,Battle of(Second World War),528,530-1
Don Antonio,of Portugal,112,118
Don Pacifico,486-7
Donald,king of Strathclyde,3
Donella,134
D?nitz,Admiral Karl,595-6,599,601,605,612-14,617
Dordrecht,51-3
d’Orvilliers,Admiral Louis Guillouet,Comte,348
Douglas,Sir Charles,369-70,372
Dover,Battle of,35-6
Dover Castle,34-5,193
Dover harbour,111
Dover Patrol,552-3
Downes,Lieutenant Henry,474
Downs,Battle of the,174-5,183
Drake,Francis:97,99,101-2,104-5,111-14,146-7,188,253,278,289,300,604;Cadiz raid,118-19,127-8,130,148;circumnavigation,111-12,292;and Spanish Armada,118-25,128-31,133-4,136,140,142
Draper,Colonel William,343
Dreadnought,107,118,519
dreadnoughts,518-19
Dreyer Fire Control Table,517-18
Drinkwater,Colonel John,405
dry docks,110,277
Dubourdieu,Admiral Bernard,466
Duff,Captain George,442
Duff,Captain Robert,333,337
Dumanoir,Admiral,455
Dumaresq,John Saumarez,517
Duncan,Admiral Lord,410,441
Dungeness,Battle of,201-2,206-7
Dunkirk evacuation,576-7,595,616
Duquesta Santa Ana,134
Dutch Barrier Treaty,326
Dutch fishermen,177-8,183
Dutch Sea Beggars,104-5
Dutch West India Company,182,197
dysentery,143,147,229,339
East India Company,151,180-1,183,271,326
Edgar(the Peaceful),King,3-5,22,45,80,178,210-11,275
Edict of Nantes,262
Edward the Elder,King,19,22
Edward the Confessor,King,25-6,29
Edward Ⅰ,King,43-7
Edward Ⅱ,King,46-7
Edward Ⅲ,King,47-57,77,80,146
Edward Ⅳ,King,67
Edward Ⅵ,King,90-1
Edward Ⅶ,King,511
Edward,the Black Prince,55-7
Eendracht,243
El Alamein,Battle of,605
El Almirante,473-4
El Formidable,474
Elbe,river,204
Eliot,Sir John,168
Elizabeth Ⅰ,Queen:95-8,103-6,112-13,146,148-53,163,282;and Essex’s expedition,148-50;and ship money,176;and Spanish Armada,116,118,121,123-4,128,139
Elizabeth Ⅱ,Queen,624,633
Elizabeth Bonaventure,107,118
Elizabeth Jonas,107,132,136,143
Ellesmere,Lord,117
Elphinstone,Captain George Keith,378
Emden,capture of,327
Endrass,Engelbert,599,601n
England:Anglo-Saxon settlement,14-15;and Armada myth,145-6,152,163,221;Catholicism and succession crisis,260-3;economic growth,235-6,271;end of Spanish threat,152;Great Fire and plague,247;maritime strength under Henry Ⅴ;63-4,84;maritime weakness,36,43,45-6,57-8,65,68-9,82,162-3,173-6;Norman Conquest,29,151;Reformation,83-4,86,91;Restoration,219-22;Spanish raids,147-8;union with Scotland,151-2;Viking invasions,9-20,22-4
see also Britain
English navy:Armada myth,145-6,152,163,221;and Civil War,184,188-9;Commonwealth reforms,207-10,213,217,221-2;division into squadrons,203;earliest records,32;expansion under Elizabeth Ⅰ,106-11,117-18,121-2;expansion under Henry Ⅷ,78-80,82,84,89-90;Henry V’s reforms,61-2;and merchant shipping,42-3,46,50-1,63,68-9;and politics,189,202,211-12,218-21,250-1,271;and privately owned warships,107,109,122,140,145-6;and Restoration,219-22;see also Royal Navy
Enigma code,593,597,610
Enrico Dandolo,502
Enríquez de Almanza,Martin,98-9
Entente Cordiale,512
Equiano,Olaudah,334
esnecca,30
Essex,Robert Devereux,earl of,148-50
Ethandun,Battle of,16
Eugene of Savoy,Prince,280
Eustace,Peter,604
Eustace the Monk,33-6
Evans,Petty Officer,463
Evans-Thomas,Admiral Hugh,534-5,537-8,540-1,544
Evelyn,John,246
Evertsen,Cornelis,245
Evertsen,Johan,205
Exmouth,Admiral Lord(Edward Pellew),403,431,470,489,499
Fairfax,190,204,252,256
Falkland Islands,344,354,630
Falkland Islands,Battle of the,522-3,526,537
Falklands War,634-40,643-4,648
Fanan Head,568
Favorite,466
Felton,John,171-2
Fenner,Thomas,117-19,122-4,136,140
Ferdinand Ⅳ,king of Naples and Sicily,413,422-3
Ferdinand of Brunswick,Prince,327
Fernando,king of Aragon,73,77
Ferrol,150,431
Fieldhouse,Admiral Sir John,635
Finisterre,Battles of,302-3,305-6,318,333-5,339,358,374
Firebrand,274
fireships,138-9,247,253;Dutch,209,237,245,254
Firth of Forth,45,142,179,534,554
Fisher,Admiral Sir John‘Jackie’:494-9,501-6,508-16,519,532-3,551;character,505-6,509,532;his death,564;and the‘Fishpond’,511-12,524;flotilla defence strategy,524;naval reforms,509-15;recalled to service,523-4,526
Fishguard,French landing at,408
Fitzroy,Captain Robert,ⅹⅹⅰ-ⅹⅹⅳ
flag signals,207,350-1,355,359-61,364-5,375,382
Flanders:10,16,18,21-2,26,33-4,54;and French wars,270,276,306;and Spanish Armada,116-17,120,126,128,134,137-8,140-1;wool trade,41,43-4,46-7,52
Fleet Air Arm,557,560,574,588
fleet reviews:(1856),489,491;(1897),633-4,647;(1953),623;(2005),634
Flick,Robert,118
Fliegerkorps Ⅹ,574-5,583-4,595
Flore,467
Florida,114,126,343
flotilla defence strategy,524
Foley,Captain Thomas,378,398,412,415,417,419,427,429
Folkestone,Viking raid on,22
food and drink,40,228-30,234-5,311-12,324,388,395-6,434-5,498
Forbes,Admiral Sir Charles,574
Force H,578-80,582-3,587-8
Ford,Richard,434
Foresight,107
Forester,C.S.,462,467
Formidable,339
Fougeux,445,447-8,450
Four Days Battle,158,244-6,248,253
Fox,Charles James,371
France,civil wars in,162,164
Francia,10-11,18
Francois Ⅰ,king of France,80,84,89
Franklin,Benjamin,354
Franklin,John,ⅹⅹⅲ-ⅹⅹⅳ
Franklin,417-19
Fraser,Admiral Bruce,613
Frederick the Great of Prussia,327,344
Frederick,Prince of Wales,285-6
free trade,51,194,479,481-4
Fremantle,Captain Thomas,378,394,396,407,427,429,441,444
French navy:50,176-7,266,341,382;and First World War,551;innovations,485,488,492-3;modernization,353-4;poor hygiene,350,371;and Second World War,578-9;and two power standard,485,504
French Revolution,377,438
frigates:189,196,240,257,271,303,329,334,389,467;‘eyes of the fleet’,436;and officers’training,397-8;and repetition of signals,355,379;screwpropeller,484
Frobisher,Martin,122-4,132-4,136-7,140,146-7
Froissart,Jean,54
Gabbard,Battle of the,206-9,211,241,546
galleasses,84,89,107,126-7,132
galleons,race-built,107-9,111,117,119,136
Galley Bonavolia,124
galleys,31-3,42,68,78-9,84,88-9,107-9,119,126-7;Genoese,43-4
Gallipoli landings,532
Gama,Vasco da,74
Gambia,the,344
Gardiner,Stephen,bishop of Winchester,85
Garibaldi,Giuseppe,491
Geddes,Sir Eric,550-1
General Belgrano,636-7
Généreux,420,424
Genoa,49-50,62,394,433
George Ⅰ,King,275
George Ⅱ,King,286,288-9,294,304,320n
George Ⅲ,King,344,353,362,372,382,397
George Ⅴ,King,499,564
George Ⅵ,King,499
George,217
German Naval Law,518
Germany,naval rearmament,559-60
Giambelli,Frederigo,139
Gibraltar,capture of,279,281
Gift Horse,463
Gijón,sack of,60
Gilbert and Sullivan,498
Gillingham Reach,237-8,247
GIUK Gap,623,628
Giulio Cesare,580,582
Glorious First of June,Battle of the,379-82,387,410,441-2,494
Glückstadt fort,204
Gneisenau,571-2,576,591,592n
Godwin,earl of Wessex,25-6
Golden Hind,112
Golden Lion,118,123,132
Gonson,Benjamin,93,105,111,117
Gonson,William,84-5,93,106-7,111
Goodenough,Commodore William,528
Goodwin Sands,Battle of,193,195
Gough Calthorpe,Admiral Sir Somerset,551
Gould,Captain Davidge,412,417,419-20
Grace Dieu,59,63-4,199,519
Grace of God,99
Grafton,duke of,ⅹⅹⅱ,258,264
Grasse,Admiral Comte Francois de,364-72,374,411,415,595,620
Graunzon Bay,attack on,47
Gravelines,Battle of,140-2
Graves,Admiral Thomas,ⅹⅹⅲ,364-5,382,438
Great Britain,493,522
Great Eastern,493
Great Galley,84
Great Harry,see Henry Grace à Dieu
Great Heathen Army,11,15,18
Great Western,493
Greek War of Independence,470
Green,Midshipman,451
Greenland,English banned from,76
Grenada,358
Grey,Lady Jane,106
Grimaldi,Carlo,52,55
Grimaldi,Gioanni de’,63
Grotius,Hugo,177
Guadeloupe,329,343,369
guardacostas,288,290
Guerrière,417,419
Guichen,Comte de,359
Guillaume Tell,420,424,441
Gulf of Morbihan,332-3,337
Gulf of St Lawrence,ⅹⅹⅳ
Gulf War,622,641
gun drills,390-2,502
gun turrets,armoured,497
Gunfleet anchorage,263,267
gunlocks,376
gunners,231-2
gunnery,reform of,369-70,376
gunnery officers,511,517
gunports,79,84,88,228
guns:accuracy and range,510-11;basilisk cannon,68,78-9,88;breechloaded cannon,68,79;bronze cannon,91-2;carronades,376,399,405,448-9,466;culverins,107,128;electrical firing,496;fire control,517-18,531,544;flintlock mechanism,376,391,453;iron cannon,92;Paixhans guns,491;rapid-firing,503,505
gunsights,496
Guthrum,king of the Danelaw,12,16,18
Haddock,Captain Sir Richard,251,254
Hague Peace Convention,506,508
Haiti earthquake,642
H?kon H?konsson,king of Norway,44
Hall,Admiral Reginald,556
Hallowell,Captain Benjamin,378,392,396,398,407n,412,415,418-19,437
Hamble,river,59,64
Hamilton,Emma,424,427,436
Hampton Roads,Virginia,550
Hanse,the:43-4,50,60,76,89,95,472;seizure of salt fleet,65-7
Harald Fairhair,22
Harald Hardrader,27-8
Hardwicke,Lord,293
Hardy,Admiral Sir Charles,350,357
Hardy,Captain Thomas,390,436-7,455
Hardy,Lieutenant,402
Harman,Admiral Sir John,235,244-5,253
Harold Ⅱ(Godwinson),King,26-9
Harris,Air Marshal Sir Arthur‘Bomber’,596
Harthacnut,King,25
Hartlepool,raid on,528
Harvey,Major Francis,VC,536-7
Harvey,Captain John,381
Harwich light ships,546
Harwood,Commodore Henry,572-4
Hasler,Major Herbert‘Blondie’,608-9
Hastein,18-19
Hastings,Battle of,28
Havana,343,476
Hawke,Admiral Lord(Edward):295,303-6,308,320n,328,330-41,343-4,388,425,485,530,602,612;character,414-15;his legacy,349-51,356,383,393,407,435,439
Hawkins,John:93-105,112,146-7,150,188,253,289,604;and naval administration,105-6,109-11,117;and Spanish Armada,117,121-5,129-30,133-4,136-7,140
Hawkins,William(Ⅰ),81-2,86-7,93
Hawkins,William(Ⅱ),103
Healey,Denis,626-7
Hedgehog mortar,608
Hein,Piet,162,182
Heligoland,cession of,512
Heligoland Bight,Battle of,525-7
Henrietta Maria,Queen,178
Henry Ⅰ,King,30
Henry Ⅱ,King,30,32,36
Henry Ⅲ,King,34-6,41-4
Henry Ⅳ,King,59-60
Henry Ⅴ,King,59-60,62-3,65,68,77,519
Henry Ⅵ,King,65-7
Henry Ⅶ,King,4,67-8,73-4,77,104,170
Henry Ⅷ,King,3-4,77-90,95,106,519
Henry Ⅲ,king of Castile,60
Henry Grace à Dieu(Great Harry)4,78,84,88-9,107,519
Herbert,Arthur,see
Torrington,Admiral Lord
Héros,340,341
herring busses,177-8,183,197
Hervey,Captain Augustus,332-3
Heureux,418,420
Hewett,Sir William,490
HF/DF equipment,609
Hipper,Admiral Franz von,528,530,534-8,540-1,543,545,553-4,595
Hispaniola,94,213-14
H.L.Hunky,496
HMAS Nestor,598
HMAS Sydney,526
HMS Aboukir,526
HMS Achille,453
HMS Achilles,572-3
HMS Active,467
HMS Adventure,ⅹⅹⅱ
HMS Agamemnon(1781),387-8,392-4,399,409,441,466
HMS Agamemnon(1852),ⅹⅹⅲ,485,488,495,516
HMS Ajax(1809),484-5
HMS Ajax(1934),572-3
HMS Alacrity,636
HMS Albemarle,372,393
HMS Albion(R07),623,627
HMS Albion(L14),642
HMS Alexander,411,418,420
HMS Amazon,428,438
HMS Amphion,432-3,441,466-7
HMS Antelope(1653),245-6,252
HMS Antelope(1703),362
HMS Antelope(F170),638-40
HMS Antrim,636,638,644
HMS Ardent,638,640
HMS Argonaut,638,644
HMS Argus,547,580
HMS Ark Royal(1914),547
HMS Ark Royal(91),560,568-70,572-82,584-5,587-90,593;sinking of,588-9
HMS Ark Royal(R09),627-8
HMS Ark Royal(R07),630,641-3
HMS Arrogant,370
HMS Arrow,636
HMS Assistance,204
HMS Association,274
HMS Astute,643
HMS Audacious(1785),412,417,420
HMS Audacious(1912),526
HMS Audacity,597,599
HMS Barfleur,362,367,370,372,390
HMS Barham,535,590
HMS Beagle,ⅹⅹⅰ-ⅹⅹⅳ
HMS Bedford,369
HMS Belfast,561n,625
HMS Belleisle,445,448,451,455
HMS Bellerophon(1786),ⅹⅹⅰ,392,412,418,449,454n,469
HMS Bellerophon(1865),497-8
HMS Berwick,295,388
HMS Black Joke,473-5,477
HMS Black Prince,541
HMS Blanche,400
HMS Blankney,598
HMS Blenheim,404-5
HMS Brilliant,636,638
HMS Britannia(1682),268
HMS Britannia,(1762),404
HMS Britannia training ship,499,510,517
HMS Broadsword,638
HMS Brunswick,380-1
HMS Bulldog,597
HMS Bulwark(R08);623,626-7
HMS Bulwark(L15);642,645
HMS Buzzard,474-5
HMS Calcutta,494,495n
HMS Caledonia,ⅹⅹⅰ
HMS Cambridge,269
HMS Campbeltown,607-8
HMS Canopus,522
HMS Captain(1787),399,402,405-7,409
HMS Captain(1869),497
HMS Centaur,627
HMS Centurion,291-2,297-8
HMS Challenger,ⅹⅹⅳ
HMS Charles(Liberty),190
HMS Charles Ⅴ,237
HMS Collingwood,499
HMS Colossus,404,449,454n
HMS Conqueror,635-6
HMS Cossack,587
HMS Courageous,568,570-1
HMS Coventry,636,639-40,644
HMS Cressy,526
HMS Culloden,334,404-5,412,418
HMS Cumberland,572-3
HMS D-1,519
HMS Defence(1763),379-80,412,417-18