monitors,526,553
Monson,William,153
Montague,380
Montagu,Edward,see Sandwich,earl of
Montanes,449
Montreal,capture of,343
Moonlight Battle,359,373-4
Moreno,Joaquin,404
Morley,Lord,52
Mount Vernon(Virginia),290
Mountbatten,Lord Louis,461,499,624-5
Mucius,379
Murray,Captain George,427
Mutinies:under Charles Ⅰ,168-9;Civil War,189;German,554;on HMS Blanche,400-1;Invergordon,558;Spithead and Nore,408-9
Myngs,Admiral Christopher,249-50,252-3,256
Nanking,479
Nantes,blockade of,332-3
Naples,394,472
Napoléon,485
Napoleon Bonaparte:378,386,398-9,411-13,420,431,434,443,472,581;final defeat,467-9,481,527;invasion plan,436-40;surrenders to HMS Bellerophon,ⅹⅹⅰ,469
Napoleon Ⅲ,Emperor,485,492
Narborough,John,250,252-6,258
Narvik operation,575-6
Naseby(later HMS Royal Charles),190,211-12,219-21,227
Nassau Conference,625
Nasser,Colonel Gamal Abdel,623
National Government,558
NATO,622-3,625-6,628-30,640,642,648
naval administration:bribery and corruption in,163-4;centralization under Elizabeth Ⅰ,105-6,109-11,152-3;under Commonwealth,202-3;earliest records of,32-3;Middleton’s reforms,375-7;Pepys and,255,259,261,266;professionalization under Henry Ⅷ,84-5;reformed role for Admiralty,283,321-4;St Vincent’s economies,431
naval arms race,pre-1914,518-19
naval aviation,494,546-7,556-8,560,568-89,627
Naval Discipline Act(1661),230
naval fiction,462
naval films,461-3
naval intelligence,563
naval slang and phrases,311-13
Navarino,Battle of,470-1
Navigation Acts,194-5,210,249,393,481
navigation,revolution in,75
Navy League,508
Nelson,Admiral Lord(Horatio):236,304,323,351,382,485,489,509,566,602;and Battle of Copenhagen,427-31;and Battle of the Nile,386-7,413-21;and Battle of Trafalgar,444-57,527;his death,449-50,455-6;early career,392-4;Hamilton affair,424,427;and HMS Blanche mutiny,400-1;his legacy,462,466,494,499,505;and Mediterranean theatre,422-4,433-44;as model for Beatty,529,531,535;the‘Nelson Touch’,441;serves under Hood,372,378,383,387,393-4;serves under St Vincent,395-6,398-402,404-12;takes command of Victory,431-2
Neptune,448-9
Netherlands:abolition of slavery,472;achieve independence,164;duke of Alba’s invasion,96-7;Dutch revolt,103-5;French evacuation,306;naval decline,196;naval union with England,265-6;rise of commercialmilitary state,179-84;and Spanish Armada,116,121,123;see also Anglo-Dutch wars
New Amsterdam,surrender of,238-9
New Model Army,188
New York,239,348,354,356,361,363-4
Newcastle,duke of,325,335,342
Newfoundland,74,76-7,80,180,226,257-8,344,489,596
Newfoundland fishing fleet,165,224,229,238,251
Nicholas,Edward,169,173,175-6
Nicholls,Captain Richard,239
Nicolas,Lieutenant Paul Harris,451,455
Niger,river,491n
Nile,Battle of the,323,386-7,392,413-24,426-8,439,442,462
Nile Club,421
Nine Years War,275-7,281
Ni?o,Pero,60
Noble,Sir Percy,595,603
Nonpareil,117,123,132
Nootka Sound Crisis,377
Nore guardship,392
Nore mutiny,408-9
Normandie,492
Normandy landings,616-17
Norris,Sir John,291
North,Lord,349
North Cape,Battle of the,613
Northumberland,380
north-west passage,80
Norway,fall of,574-6,580
Nott Review,630-1,635
Nottingham,earl of,see Howard of Effingham,Admiral Lord
Nottingham,Lord,267
Nottingham,Viking occupation of,11
Nuestra Se?ora del Rosario,130-1
Nyerere,President Julius,627
Oak,204,209
Oates,Captain Lawrence,463
Oates,Titus,230,261
Obdam;Jacob van Wassenaer,241,243
O’Brian,Patrick,462,467
Océan,334
Officers:Battle of Trafalgar,452-3;eccentricities,500-1;levels of education,352-3;and mutinies,409;in Nelson’s navy,388-9,397,436-7;standing officers,231-3;‘tarpaulin’officers,250-2,256,321;and technical training,510-11
Ohio valley,French enter,322,324
Okinawa,Battle of,620
Olaf Tryggvason,23
Old Bahama Channel,343,352
Oldenbarnevelt,Jan van,180
Oléron,Battle of,57
Oliver,Henry,512
Operation Barbarossa,587
Operation Tiger,584-5,587
Opium Wars,478-9,490,495
Oranje,243
ordinary seamen,226-7
Orient,418-20
Orwell,river,53
Osborne,Admiral Henry,328
Ossory,earl of,252,256
Ostend,U-boat base,551,553
Ottoman Empire,112,126,212-13,470-1,486
Owen,Captain William Fitzwilliam,ⅹⅹⅲ
paddle steamers,477-8,484
Pall Mall Gazette,502-3
Palliser,Sir Hugh,349
Palmer,Sir Henry,184
Palmerston,Lord,471,475-6,483-4,487,490
‘Palmerston Follies’,492
Panama,104,290-1,489
Paramaribo,capture of,253
Paraná,river,478
Paris,Matthew,9,30
Paris,Viking raid on,11
Parker,Admiral Sir Hyde(Ⅰ),359-60,372,426n
Parker,Admiral Sir Hyde(Ⅱ),426-30
Parker,Admiral Peter,393
Parker,Admiral William,397,437,471,477-9,486-7,494,505
Parma,duke of,116,120-1,123,126,128,131,133-4,137-8,140,142,146,581
Parry,Edward,ⅹⅹⅲ-ⅹⅹⅳ
Paul,Tsar,426,430
Paul,81
Pay,Harry,60
Peace of Amiens,431
Peacock,Admiral James,209
Pearl Harbor,547,590-1,636
Peel,Robert,476
Pellew,Edward,see Exmouth,Admiral Lord
Penn,Admiral William,192,195,199,203-4,209,213-14,241,244,250,300
Pennington,Admiral Sir John,169-70,174-6,179,183-4
Pepys,Samuel:219-21,235,238,240,244,247-8,250,253,263;and naval administration,255,259,261,266
Persian Gulf,210,622,627,630
Peter Pomegranate,78,84,107
Pett,Peter(Ⅰ),107,110-11,121
Pett,Peter(Ⅱ),237
Pett,Phineas,164
Pett,Richard,330-1
petty officers,232-4,408
Peuple Souverain,417-19
Peyton,Captain John,412,417
Philadelphia,capture of,356
Philip le Bon,duke of Burgundy,65
Philip Ⅳ(the Fair),king of France,50
Philip Ⅵ,king of France,50
Philip Ⅱ,king of Spain:91,95-7,103-5,109,111-14,146;and Spanish Armada,116-21,123,126-8,130-2,134,142-4,148-9
Philip Ⅴ;king of Spain,277
Philip and Mary,111
Philippe Auguste,king of France,31-4
Phillips,Admiral Sir Tom,590
Pilgrimage of Grace,84
pinnaces,84
pirates and privateers:Barbary corsairs,192,212,225,232,235,256-8;Breton pirates,40;early policing of,46-8,56;under early Stuarts,163,165-6,168,172-3,176-7;Elizabethan,104-5,113-14,147-8,151;French privateers,271,pirates and privateers—contd 275-6,284,301;Germanic pirates,14;under Henry Ⅵ,65-7;under Henry Ⅶ,85-7;Somali pirates,645
Piraeus,blockade of,487
Pitt,William,289,325-7,335,344,375,377
Plains of Abraham,335
Pliny,14
Pluton,448
Plymouth:building of dry dock,277;building of new docks,375;and Hawkins family,81,93;and Napoleon’s invasion plan,437;and Spanish Armada,122-6,128-9;supplies Western Squadron,301,330-2
Plymouth,Battle of,197-8,200,206
Pocock,Admiral Sir George,306,335,343
Pocock,Nicholas,159
Poder,295,304,407
Poitiers,Battle of,57
Polaris missiles,625-7,630
Pondicherry,326,335,343
Port Stanley,522,636,640
Portland,Battle of(Channel Fight),203-6,211,215
Porto Bello,capture of,287-8,290
Porto Farina,Battle of,212-13,216-17
Portsmouth:assassination of Buckingham,171-2;building of dry dock,277;building of new docks,375;and French invasion,87-8;George Ⅲ visits,362;and Napoleon’s invasion plan,437
Portugal:abolition of slavery,472,476;and Brazilian independence,471;civil war,471,477;maritime expansion,73-4,77,80,86,91;Spanish annexation,112-13
Poser,Gunter,610-11
Pound,Admiral Sir Dudley,578
powder monkeys,391
Prégent de Bidoux,78-9
press gangs,239-40,492
Prestonpans,Battle of,298
Principe de Asturias,449
Prinz Eugen,585-6,591
prison hulks,469
prostitutes,224-5
Pulteney,William,286
pursers,231-3,321
Q-ships,548-9
Qishan,governor of Guangdon,478-9
quartermasters,233-4
Quebec,capture of,335
Quiberon Bay,Battle of,332-41,344,351-2,374,393,462,527
radar,575,636-7
Raeder,Admiral Erich,605
R?dwald,king of the East Angles,14-15,519
Ragusa,467,479
railways,482,647
Rainborow,Colonel Thomas,189
Rainborow,William,182
Rainbow,118,123
Raleigh,Walter,84,109,122,150
Ramillies,Battle of,280
Ramsay,Admiral Sir Bertram,577,595,616-17
Ramsey,Lieutenant,474
Rata Encoronada,134
Real Carlos,430
Recalde,Juan Martínez de;116,127,130,132-4,136,138,141
Redoubtable(Ⅰ),334
Redoubtable(Ⅱ),448-9,453
Regent,68,78
Reis,Yusuf(John‘Birdy’Ward),182
Renaud de Dammartin,count of Boulogne,33
Reneger,Robert,86-7
Républicain,380
Revenge,108,117,123,131
Reynolds,Admiral Sir Barrington,476
RFA Largs Bay,642
RFA Sir Galahad,638,640,644
RFA Sir Geraint,638
RFA Sir Lancelot,638
RFA Sir Percivale,638
RFA Sir Tristram,638,640
Rhine,river,11,14,278
Rhode Island,356
Rhodesia,blockade of,627,629
Rh?ne,river,11
Richard Ⅰ,King,4,31-2,44
Richard Ⅱ,King,57,59
Richard Ⅲ,King,67-8
Richelieu,Cardinal,169
Ripley Building,283
River Plate,Battle of the,571-4,591
RMS Lusitania,548
RMS Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ,644
RMS Trent,484
Robinson,William,390,452,456
Rochefort,326,341,351,353,439
Rodney,Admiral George Brydges:306,333,349,357-65,367-74,426n,438,530,620;and Battle of the Saintes,368-74,379,411,438,440;character,383,414-15,509,531;his legacy,351,383,397,407,414
Rollo,duke of Normandy,22
Romans,14,17
Rommel,General Erwin,584,588,605
Rooke,Admiral George,270-1,274,276-9
Ross,John Clark,ⅹⅹⅲ
Rouen,Viking sack of,11
rowbarges,84,89,107
Rowley,Admiral Joshua,359-61
Royal Africa Company,238
Royal Air Force,557,574,581,588,596,625-8,635
Royal Fleet Auxiliary(RFA),514
Royal Marines,628,630
Royal Naval Air Service,557,560
Royal Naval Reserve(RNR),492,514,640
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve(RNVR),514,602
Royal Navy:Anson reforms,319-25;conditions of service,224-36,388-9;creation of Western Squadron,300-4;early Stuart decline,162,165,172;end of naval supremacy,555,566;equality and diversity,641;faction and indiscipline,349-50,356-7;Fisher reforms,509-15;funding,281-3,307-8,375,377;gentrification,462,499;‘great armament’(1856),489;Howe reforms,351-7;impact on daily life,311-13;interwar rearmament,559-61;interwar strength,561;late Stuart professionalization,255-9,307;Nelson’s navy,388-92,456;Pall Mall Gazette exposé,502-3;and politics,250-1,271;postwar decline,627-8,633,643-8;and private shipping,166-7,170,172;public affection and perception,157-9,284,307-8,461-4,490-1,634,647-8;raising of Ship Money fleet,177-8;recruitment,239-40;scandals of 1740s,295-9;Second World War losses,617,620;seized for Parliament,184;‘showing the flag’,484;strength in American war,355;strength after First World War,553;strength after Second World War,620,622,624-5;strength in Seven Years War,329-30,343-4;and Ten-Years Rule,555,559;and two power standard,485,504,508;union with Dutch navy,265-6;Victorian navy,498-501,634;see also English navy
Rufiji,river,526
rum ration,311-12,388,456,498,604
Rump Parliament,194,211,218
Rupert of the Rhine,Prince,189-92,244-7,250-2,261
Russell,Admiral Edward,262-3,265,267,269-70,276
Russian navy,and two power standard,485,504
Russo-Japanese War,512,515-16
Rut,John,80
Ryder,Commander Robert,VC,608
St Eustatius,363
St Kitts,281,365-7,415,438
St Lawrence,river,ⅹⅹⅲ,324,328,335,344,351
St Lucia,358-9,363
St Malo,275-6,327
St Mathieu’s Point,40
St Nazaire raid,607-9
St Paul’s Cathedral,282,410
St Petersburg,bombardment of,488
St Vincent,Admiral Earl(Sir John Jervis):335,379,395-9,402-4,406-7,409-12,435,612;character,414-15,509;and naval administration,424-7,430-1,456;Nelson serves under,395-6,398-402,404-12;rejection of tactical theories,406-7
Saintes,Battle of the,368-74,379,383,398,411,438,440,469
Sallee,165,182,215,256-7
salt fish,40,66,75-6
salt fleet,Hanseatic,65-7
‘salt junk’,229,311
Salvador del Mundo,405
San Antonio,430
San Carlos,Battle of,638-9
San Felipe,120,140-1
San Hermengildo,430
San Isidro,405
San Josef,405-6
San Juan d’Ulúa,98-103,130
San Juan,130
San Lorenzo,139-40
San Luis,134
San Martin,117,126,129-33,136,139-40,142
San Mateo,140-1
San Nicolas,405-6
San Salvador(Ⅰ),87
San Salvador(Ⅱ),130-1,140
Sandwich,earl of(Edward Montagu),214-15,218-21,241-3,251,254,296
Sandwich,earl of(John Montagu),299,321-2,361-2
Sandwich,French raid on,66-7
Sandwich Bay,21-7
Sandys,Duncan,624
Santa Ana,447-8
Santa Clara(Holighost de la Tour),60,62-3
Santa Cruz,marquis of,112-14,116,119-21
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,Battle of,215-17,243n,251
Santa Fe,636
Santiago de Cuba,252,291
Santisima Trinidad,405,449-50
Saratoga,Battle of,356
Sashes Island,9,16-17,307
Saumarez,Captain James,406,407n,411-14,417-18,421,426,430-1
Saumarez,Captain Philip de,306
Saunders,Admiral Charles,306,329,335
Savage,Able Seaman William,VC,608
Savoy,277,279,281
Scapa Flow,German surrender at,554-5
Scarborough:blockade of,204;raid on,528,530
Scharnhorst,572,576,591-2,613
Scheer,Admiral Reinhard,462,534-6,538,543-5,551,553,595
Scheldt estuary,52-3,206
Scheveningen,Battle of,209-10,241,249
Schooneveld,Battle of,253
scientific voyages,ⅹⅹⅱ-ⅹⅹⅴ
Scotland:Edward Ⅰ’s wars,44-5;Edward Ⅲ’s wars,47;expanding naval power,68;rebellion against Charles Ⅰ,179;union with England,151-2
Scott,John,447
Scott,Percy,500,511,517
Scott,Captain Robert Falcon,ⅹⅹⅳ,463
screw propeller,introduction of,484
scurvy,229,291-2,300,303,330-1,425,435
Seafarer,The,15
seaplanes,546-7
Sebastopol,488
Seine,river,10-11,19,32,87,89
Selden,John,177-8
Senegal,329,343
Servaux,Pierre,445,447
Seven Years War,343-4,351,358,362,383
Severn,river,19
Seymour,Lord Henry,123,137
Seymour,Lieutenant Commander Ralph,530,535
Seymour,Thomas,90
Shakespeare,William,421
Shanghai,479
Sheerness fort,111
Sheffield,Lord,123
Ship Money,176-9
shipbuilding industry,decline of,643-4
ships:carvel-built,31,62,64,68;clinker-built,30-1,44,64;copper-bottomed,358-9;‘full-rigged’,62;iron-built,478;iron-clad,488,492-3;rates of,226;steam-powered,477-9,484-5,487,491;three-decker,164
ships of the line:209,240,257,318,389;74-gun,322-3,329,340;and steam power,484-5
Ships With Wings,462
shipworm,288,292,358
shipwrights,85,106-7,110,121-2
shot,red-hot,376n
Shovell,Admiral Sir Cloudesley:249,252-3,255-8,263,266-9,278-80,284,289,300,489,634;his death,274-5