Chapter II: Part II: �the Great War (1914-1918)

XXII THE HANDY MAN XXIII FIFTY YEARS OF WARNING (1864-1914) XXIV WAR (1914-1915) XXV JUTLAND (1916) XXVI SUBMARINING (1917-1918) XXVII SURRENDER! (1918) XXVIII WELL DONE! POSTSCRIPT THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS ILLUSTRATIONS VIKING MAN-OF-WAR. . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece "DUG-OUT" CANOE ROMAN TRIREME�A vessel with three benches of oars WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S TRANSPORTS 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 NELSON FIGHTING THE GUNS ON THE MAIN DECK, 1782. THE BLOWING UP OF L'ORIENT DURING THE BATTLE OF THE NILE. THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN, APRIL 2nd, 1801. (Note the British line ahead.) The VICTORY. Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar, launched in 1765, and still used as the flagship in Portsmouth Harbour. TRAFALGAR. 21st October, 1805. MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. (Reproduced by permission from the model at the Royal United Service Institution.) THE SHANNON AND THE CHESAPEAKE. THE ROYAL WILLIAM. Canadian built; the first boat to cross any ocean steaming the whole way (1833), the first steamer in the world to fire a shot in action (May 5, 1836). BATTLESHIP. Seaplane Returning after flight. DESTROYER. A PARTING SHOT FROM THE TURKS AT GALLIPOLI. JELLICOE. BEATTY. LIGHT CRUISER. H.M.S. Monmouth, Armoured Cruiser. Sunk at Coronel, November 1st, 1914. BATTLESHIP FIRING A BROADSIDE. Jellicoe's Battle Fleet in Columns of Divisions. 6.14 P.M. THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND�PLAN II. Jellicoe's battle line formed and fighting. 6:38 P.M. British Submarine. Minesweeper at work. H.M. KING GEORGE V.

ALL AFLOAT A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways By William Wood

CONTENTS I. A LAND OF WATERWAYS 1 II. CANOES 16 III. SAILING CRAFT; THE PIONEERS 41 IV. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE FLEURS-DE-LIS 54 V. SAILING CRAFT: UNDER THE UNION JACK 68 VI. SAILING CRAFT: THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP 82 VII. SAILING CRAFT: 'FIT TO GO FOREIGN' 92 VIII. STEAMERS 129 IX. FISHERIES 155 X. ADMINISTRATION 171 XI. NAVIES 179 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 189 INDEX 193 ILLUSTRATIONS THE VOYAGEURS ON A MISTY MORNING From a painting by Verner. Frontispiece THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKES By Lorado Taft, in the Chicago Art Institute. Facing page 12 SHIPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 44 CHAMPLAIN'S SHIP, THE 'DON DE DIEU' From the model at the Quebec Tercentenary. 54 A FRENCH FRIGATE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY From Winsor's 'America.' 64 SHIP 'BATAVIA,' 2000 TONS Built by F.-X. Marquis at Quebec, 1877. Lost on Inaccessible Island, 1879. From a picture belonging to Messrs Ross and Co., Quebec. 92 TRANSPORT 'BECKWITH' AND BATEAUX, LAKE ONTARIO, 1816 From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. 136 THE 'ROYAL WILLIAM' From the original painting in possession of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. 140