HMS Defence(1861),501,541
HMS Defiance,339
HMS Deptford,599
HMS Devastation,497-8
HMS Devonshire,305
HMS Diadem,405
HMS Diana,478
HMS Dorsetshire(1757),339-40
HMS Dorsetshire(40),587
HMS Dover,250
HMS Dreadnought(1906),494,515-19,561
HMS Dreadnought(S101),624
HMS Duke,369-70
HMS Duke of Edinburgh,541
HMS Duke of Wellington,485,489
HMS Duke of York,592,613
HMS Eagle(1679),274
HMS Eagle(1745),358
HMS Eagle(1918)572,580-1
HMS Eagle(R05),623,628
HMS Edgar,266
HMS Elephant,427-8
HMS Engadine,546-7
HMS Essex,341
HMS Euryalus,441
HMS Excellent,405
HMS Excellent gunnery school,495-6,502,511-12
HMS Exeter,572-3,591
HMS Fair Rosamond,474
HMS Fearless,630,635,637-8
HMS Formidable(1777),369-70
HMS Formidable(67),560,584
HMS Furious,547,572,574
HMS Galatea,500
HMS General Wolfe,553
HMS Glamorgan,636,640
HMS Glasgow,636-7
HMS Glorious,572,575-6
HMS Glory,380
HMS Gloucester(1711),291-2
HMS Gloucester(D96),641
HMS Goliath,412,420
HMS Harwich,249
HMS Hecla,487
HMS Henrietta,256
HMS Henry,245,254
HMS Hercules,498
HMS Hermes(95),556,570,572,591
HMS Hermes(R12),635-6,644
HMS Hinchinbrook,393
HMS Hogue,526
HMS Hood,578,585-6
HMS Howe,561
HMS Illustrious(87),560-1,581-3
HMS Illustrious(R06),630,641-2
HMS Indefatigable(1784),403
HMS Indefatigable(1909),536,538
HMS Indomitable(1907),515,530
HMS Indomitable(92),560
HMS Inflexible(1876),501-2
HMS Inflexible(1907),515,522-3
HMS Intrepid,630,637-8
HMS Invincible(1907),515,522-3,525,541
HMS Invincible(R05),629-30,635,639,641,643
HMS Iron Duke,543-4
HMS James,199-200
HMS James Galley,256
HMS Kent(1652),269
HMS Kent(1901),522
HMS King George Ⅴ,560,585-7,621
HMS La Minerve,399-400,402
HMS Leander,412,418-20
HMS Lion(1709),305
HMS Lion(1910),525,530-1,535-7
HMS London(1656),240
HMS London(1670),254
HMS London(1766),408
HMS Lowestoffe,393
HMS Loyal London,237
HMS Ludlow Castle,362
HMS Magnanime,339-40,352
HMS Majestic(1785),412,418
HMS Majestic(1895),512
HMS Malaya,538
HMS Maori,587
HMS Marlborough(1767),369,379-80
HMS Marlborough(1855),501
HMS Mars,442,448,454
HMS Mary(formerly Speaker),243
HMS Matthias,237
HMS Mersey,526
HMS Minotaur,412,417
HMS Monarch,497
HMS Monmouth,305
HMS Montagu,225
HMS Namur,333-4
HMS Nelson,558,568,578
HMS Nemesis,478
HMS Neptune,441,449
HMS New Zealand,525,530,537
HMS Newark,334
HMS Norfolk,586-7
HMS Northampton,498
HMS Northumberland,297
HMS Ocean,642,644-5
HMS Orion,380,404-6,411,417,441
HMS Osprey anti-submarine warfare school,594-5
HMS Oxford,269
HMS Pallas,498
HMS Pearl,291
HMS Pegasus,525
HMS Pembroke,252
HMS Phoenix,274
HMS Pluto,477
HMS Plymouth,636,638,640
HMS Polyphemus,392
HMS Portland,641
HMS Prince George,404-5
HMS Prince of Wales(Ⅰ),585-6,621
HMS Prince of Wales(Ⅱ),643
HMS Prince Royal,164,189-90,245-6
HMS Princess Louisa,305
HMS Princess,212
HMS Princess Royal,525,530,537,590
HMS Prosperous,204
HMS Queen,380-1
HMS Queen Charlotte,379-80
HMS Queen Elizabeth(1913),584,591
HMS Queen Elizabeth(R08),643
HMS Queen Mary,525,537
HMS Rainbow,376
HMS Ramillies,586
HMS Renown(1916),572-3,584-5
HMS Renown(S26),626
HMS Repulse(1916),590,621
HMS Repulse(S23),626
HMS Resolution(1758),340-41
HMS Resolution(09),578
HMS Resolution(S22),626
HMS Revenge(1805),449-50
HMS Revenge(S27),626
HMS Rodney,558,568,586-7
HMS Romney,274
HMS Royal Charles(formerly Naseby),221,237-8,240,245,248
HMS Royal George,340,380
HMS Royal James,237,246,254,259
HMS Royal Katherine,245
HMS Royal Oak(1664),237,244
HMS Royal Oak(08),571
HMS Royal Prince(Resolution)(later Royal William),253-4,268-9
HMS Royal Sovereign(1786),441,445,447-8,456
HMS Royal Sovereign(1857),497
HMS Royal Sovereign(1891),504-5,508
HMS Ruby,269
HMS Rupert,235,294
HMS Russell,411
HMS St Albans,269
HMS St David,225
HMS St George,406
HMS St Michael,254
HMS Sandwich(1679),269
HMS Sandwich(1759),360
HMS Sapphire,252,256
HMS Seahorse,392,396
HMS Severn(1695),291
HMS Severn(1913),526
HMS Sheffield(C24),587
HMS Sheffield(D80),636-7
HMS Sikh,587
HMS Solebay,297
HMS Southampton(1912),537
HMS Southampton(C83),583
HMS Sovereign of the Seas(Sovereign),177-8,184,189-90,196,199-200,266,268,519
HMS Spartan,635
HMS Spearfish,568
HMS Speedy,467
HMS Splendid,635-6,641
HMS Stanley,598-9
HMS Starling,610-12,614,616
HMS Stork,594-5,598-603
HMS Suffolk,575,586
HMS Superb,430,437
HMS Swiftsure(1621),219
HMS Swiftsure(1750),340,412
HMS Swiftsure(1787),418-20
HMS Sybille,474
HMS Temeraire,449-50,453,469
HMS Theseus(1786),409,412,417,420
HMS Theseus(R64),623
HMS Tiger,530-1,537
HMS Tonnant,448,452
HMS Torbay,278,340
HMS Tracker,613
HMS Triumph(Ⅰ),201,203-4,209
HMS Triumph(Ⅱ),642
HMS Tryal,291
HMS Tuna,608
HMS Turbulent,642
HMS Unity,237,238n
HMS Valiant,578,591,595
HMS Valorous,498
HMS Vanguard(1787),410-12,417
HMS Vanguard(23),621-2,624
HMS Vernon training establishment,496
HMS Vesuvius,276
HMS Vetch,600,602n
HMS Victorious,560,585-6,592,614,627
HMS Victory(1620),253
HMS Victory(1765):64,343,345,348,390,396,402,404,406,407n,485;and Battle of Trafalgar,445,447-50,453-4;becomes Nelson’s flagship,431-3,436,441,443;survival of,622
HMS Volage,466
HMS Wager,291-2
HMS Warrior(1860),492-5,497-8,519
HMS Warrior(1905),541
HMS Warspite(1758),339-40
HMS Warspite(03),538-9,541,580
HMS Wild Goose,612
HMS Woodpecker,614
HMS Yarmouth,636,638
HMS Zealous,412,417
HMS Zulu,587
HNLMS De Ruyter,253n
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciёn,253n
Holland,Captain Cedric,579
Holles,Sir Frescheville,252
Holmes,Captain Charles,327
Holmes,John,251-2
Holmes,Sir Robert,238,247,250-1
‘Holmes’s Bonfire’,247
Holstocke,William,106
holystoning,389,499
Hood,Alexander,see Bridport,Admiral Lord
Hood,Admiral Horace,540-1,543
Hood,Admiral Samuel:361-8,370-3,378-9,415,438,509;character,383,509;his legacy,351,381-3,397,407,411;Nelson serves under,372,378,383,287,393-4
Hood,Captain Samuel,378,396,398,412,415,417-19
Hope,111,117
Hornby,Admiral Geoffrey,498n
Horton,Admiral Sir Max,610-11,614,618
Hortop,Job,100,102
Hosier,Admiral Francis,288,290-1
Hoste,Captain William,441,466-7,470,479,499,505
Hotham,Sir Charles,478
Hotham,Captain Henry,400
Hotham,Admiral William,394-6
Howard,Sir Edward,78-9
Howard,John,67-8
Howard,Lord Thomas,123
Howard,Thomas,79
Howard of Effingham,Admiral Lord(later earl of Nottingham),122-5,128-34,136-43,148-50,163-5,533
Howe,Admiral Richard:339-40,348,351-8,372-3,376n,377,379-83,386-7,485;character,383,414-15;and Glorious First of June,379-82,387,410,441-2;improvements in signalling,355,361,375,382;his legacy,351,397,407,414,442;and naval mutinies,408
Howe,General Sir William,354
Huguenots,103-5,169-70
Hull,siege of,204
Humber,river,24,28
Hundred Years War,57
Husband’s Message,The,14
Hutt,Captain John,381
hydrophones,551,600,602,610
hygiene and sanitation:40,229,233-4,371,389,396,425,435;in French navy,350,371
Iago ab Idwal Foel,king of Gwynnedd,3
Iberian trade,81,86
Iceland,trade with,75-6
‘idlers’,227
?le d’Aix,351,353
?le de Ré,170-1,203,208
Impérieuse,467
In Which We Serve,461-3,569
Inca Empire,80
Indian Mutiny,490
Indonesia-Malaysia crisis,627
‘infernal machines’,275-6
Ingenohl,Admiral Friedrich von,528
Intrépide,341
Invergordon Mutiny,558
Invincible(Ⅰ),318-19,323
Invincible(Ⅱ),492
Iran-Iraq War,630
Iraq War,642
Ireland,266,403,422,526
Irrawaddy,river,477
Isabella,queen of Castille,73,77
‘island of the Seven Cities’,76
Isle of Sheppey,11,237
Isle of Thanet,11
Isle of Wight,23,27,50,66,88-9,131,134,137,189,266,581
Italian fleet,surrender of,612
Italy,naval expansion,559-60
Jackson,Henry,512,515
Jacobin,380
Jacobite rebellions,287,298
Jamaica:214,225,252,288,370-1,373,393;gunboat missions,489-90
James Ⅰ,King,151-2,163-6,181-2,212,245
James Ⅱ,King(James,duke of York),5,158,221,238,241-4,250,252-6,259-68,270,296
James Ⅱ,king of Scotland,68
James Ⅳ,king of Scotland,68
James Ⅵ,king of Scotland,151
Jameson,William,570
Japan:483-4;naval expansion,559-60
Java Sea,Battle of the,591
Jellicoe,Admiral John:499,511-12,524-5,530,532-5,538,540-1,543-5;his death,564;promotion to Admiralty,548-9,551,554
Jemmapes,380
Jenkins,Captain Robert,288
Jerram,Admiral Martyn,544
Jervis,Sir John,see St Vincent,Admiral Earl
Jesus,63
Jesus of Lübeck,95,97-101
Jo?o,king of Portugal,214
John,King,4,31-5,41
Jolly Roger,the,610
Jordan,Joseph,244
Judith,97,99-101
Jumièges,Viking attack on,11
Juste,341,380
Jutland,Battle of,462,499,533-46,604
Kagoshima,bombardment of,490
Keats,Captain Richard,430,437,441
Keith,Admiral Lord,422-4,426,431
Kelly,Petty Officer Darby,600,602
Kempenfelt,Richard,350,361,382
Kempthorne,Captain John,257-8
Kempthorne,Morgan,258
Kennedy,President J.F.,625
Kenneth,king of Alba,3
Kentish Knock,Battle of,199-202,210
Keppel,Admiral Augustus,329,340,348-9
Keyes,Admiral Roger,525,528,552-3
Kiel Canal,519
Kinburn,bombardment of,488
King,Admiral Ernest,621
King,Captain Philip Parker,ⅹⅹⅱ-ⅹⅹⅲ
‘king’s letter boys’,252
Kipling,Rudyard,634,647
K?nigsberg,574
Kooria Mooria Islands,489
Korean War,622-3
Kronstadt,488-9
Kuwait,626
La Gloire,492
La Heitee,41-2
La Hogue,destruction of French fleet,260,270,275
La Jonette,42
La Rochelle:36,41,45,50,55,57,104,304;Buckingham’s expedition,169-72,192,208
Lagos,bombardment of,476
Lagos,Battle of,334-5,339,344
Land Tax Bill,282
Langsdorff,Hans,571-4
Largs,Battle of,44
latitude,determination of,75
Lave,488
Lawrence of Ludlow,45
Lawson,Admiral John,204,209,212,214,218-20,241,244,250
Le Havre,333,358,362
Lea,river,19
Leach,Sir Henry,635
League of Armed Neutrality,362-3,426
League of Nations,559
Leake,Admiral Sir John,279
Leghorn,224-5,256-7,395-6,398-9,412,424
Leghorn,Battle of,202,212
Leicester,Robert Dudley,earl of,122,148
Leigh Light,609
Leith-Ross,Sir Frederick,562-3
Leiva,Don Alonso Martínez de,126-7,132-4
Lely,Sir Peter,244
Lepanto,Battle of,112,126
Lestock,Admiral Richard,294-6
Levant Company,165,225,257
Lewin,Admiral Sir Terence,636
‘liar,the’,231
Libelle of Englyshe Polycye,The,59,62
Libyan intervention,642,645
Lieutenants:234,250-2,321,352,354-5,397;examinations,ⅹⅹⅱ,259
Lin Zexu,governor of Canton,478
Lincoln,Abraham,476,484
Lincoln,Battle of,35
Lind,James,331
Lindisfarne,Viking raids on,10
Lindsey,earl of,176
Lion,90,117
Lisbon,146,190,192
Lisle,Lord Admiral,87-90
Lissa,Battle of,466-7,495
Livingstone,David,489
Lloyd George,David,549-50
loblolly boys,227
Locker,Captain William,393,414
Loire,river,11,341
London:crowds cheer de Grasse,371;extension of Roman port,30;Great Fire,247,261,271;naval blockade,218-19;Viking occupation,11-12
London Naval Treaty,559
London Olympic Games,642,645
Longitude Act,274
longships,17,19-22,30-1,519
Looks,Hartwig,614,616
Louis the Pious,Emperor,10
Louis Ⅳ,king of France,22
Louis Ⅷ,king of France,34-6
Louis Ⅻ,king of France,78
Louis ⅩⅢ,king of France,172
Louis ⅩⅣ,king of France,261-2,264-6,268,271,275,277,279-80
Louis ⅩⅤ,king of France,329,335,343
Louis of Battenberg,Prince,499
Louis,Captain Thomas,412,417-18,441
Louisbourg,299,301,326,328,334-5
Lowestoft,bombardment of,534
Lowestoft,Battle of,241-5,260
Lucas,Charles,VC,487
Lucas,Captain,448,453
Luce,Sir David,626
Lützow,592
Lyme,siege of,187-8,201
Lyme Bay,131-2
Lyster,Admiral Lumley,582
Macmillan,Harold,626
Madre de Dios,150-1
Magna Carta,33-4
Magnus Haroldson,king of Man and the Isles,3
Magnus Ⅰ,king of Norway,25
Mahan,Captain Alfred T.,507-8,564-5,646
Malcolm,king of Cumbria,3
Maldon,Battle of,23
maltote,the,45
Manchuria,Japanese invasion of,559
Manila galleon,capture of,290,298,302
Mansell,Robert,163-4
Margaret,Queen,67
Margaret,68
Margaret and John,132
Margate,mortality among sailors,142-3
Maria Juan,141
Marinerito,474
maritime art,157-9
Marlborough,John Churchill,duke of,265,279-80,282
Marryat,Captain Frederick,462,467
Marshal,William,34
Martinique,amphibious assault on,343-4
Martinique,Battle of,358-61,363,374,426n,438,440
Mary Ⅰ(Tudor),Queen,90,103,106,123
Mary Ⅱ,Queen,262-3,265,267-8,270
Mary,Queen of Scots,97,105,118,121
Mary Rose(Ⅰ),64,78,83-4,88-9,199
Mary Rose(Ⅱ),131-2
Matapan,Battle of,583
mates,232-3,321,389
Mathews,Admiral Thomas,294-6
Matthew,73-4
Maund,Captain Loben,588-9
Mayhew,Christopher,626-7,631
Medina Sidonia,duke of,121,124,126-32,134,136-42,149
Medway raid,237-8,246-8,253,544
Merchant Adventurers,67
merchant navy,decline of,644
Merchant Royal,132
Mercia,11-12,16,18
Mercure,420
Mers-el-Kébir,attack on French navy,578-9
Michael,68,78
Middleton,Sir Charles,see Barham,Admiral Lord
midshipmen,233,313,321,352,354-5,397,452
Miller,Captain Ralph,396,398,405,409,412,417,419
Mills,John,461
Minden,Battle of,335
Minion,95,97,99-102
Ministry of Defence,creation of,625
Minorca,280-1,287,324-6,343-4,354,423-4,433
Modeste,334
Moffat,John,587
Moluccas(Spice Islands),112-13
Monamy,Peter,159
Monarca,448-9
monasteries,dissolution of,84
Monck,General George,see Albemarle,duke of