Chapter II: Introduction: XV

CHAPTER

1. FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO THE INTRODUCTION OF
ARTILLERY 1

2. WAR CRAFT OF THE FAR WEST, CENTRAL AFRICA,
THE FAR SOUTH, THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR
EAST 21

3. THE INTRODUCTION OF ARTILLERY AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF WARSHIPS TO THE APPLICATION OF
STEAM FOR NAVIGATION 39

4. STEAM AND WARSHIPS 78

5. IRON SHIPS OF WAR. FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF
IRON ARMOUR TO BROADSIDE AND TURRET
SHIPS 105

6. IRON SHIPS OF WAR (_continued_) 144

7. ARMOURED SHIPS IN ACTION 197

8. BATTLESHIPS AND CRUISERS 241

9. GUNS, PROJECTILES, AND ARMOUR 265

10. WARSHIPS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 285

INDEX 333

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Coming Type of Battleship (_Colour_) _Frontispiece_

Greek Bireme _Facing page_ 6

Greek War Galleys ” ” 6

An Ancient Bireme from Basius ” ” 10

One of the Ancient Liburni or Galleys ” ” 10

Roman Galley ” ” 10

Viking Ship found at Gokstad ” ” 14

Fleet Attacking a Fortified Town ” ” 18

Galley of the Knights of Malta ” ” 20

Mediterranean Galley ” ” 20

War Canoes of Indians of the North-West ” ” 22

A “Dug-Out” Canoe of New Guinea ” ” 24

New Guinea Canoes ” ” 24

Stern-posts of Maori War Canoe ” ” 26

A Maori War Canoe ” ” 26

A Lakatoi nearly completed ” ” 28

A Lakatoi under Sail ” ” 28

Canoe from Shortland Island ” ” 30

Diagram of Shortland Island Canoe ” ” 30

War Canoe (Teste Island, New Guinea) ” ” 30

Head-Hunting Canoe from Ysabel ” ” 32

Head-Hunting Canoe from Ysabel: Detail of Bow ” ” 32

The Famous old Chinese Junk _Whang Ho_ ” ” 34

Malay Pirate Proa ” ” 34

Pictures of War Galleys and a Protected Galley,
_Kikkosen_ ” ” 36

The _Ataka Maru_ ” ” 36

Sixteenth Century French Ships ” ” 40

A Mediterranean War Galley ” ” 42

Ship of War, 1486-1520 ” ” 42

Embarkation of Henry VIII on the _Great Harry_ ” ” 46

Breech-loading Gun recovered from the wreck of
the _Mary Rose_ ” ” 50

The _Ark Royal_ ” ” 52

The _Sovereign of the Seas_ ” ” 54

The _Prince Royal_ ” ” 54

Line of Battleship, 1650 ” ” 58

The _Dreadnought_, 1748 ” ” 60

The _Juno_, 1757 ” ” 60

The _Cornwallis_, 1812 ” ” 64

Guns of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries ” ” 72

Ancient Double Gun ” ” 72

Carronade of Six Diameters ” ” 74

Carronade ” ” 74

Carronade and its Carriage ” ” 74

The _Rising Star_ ” ” 86

The Trial of Screw _v._ Paddle--H.M. Sloops _Rattler_
and _Alert_ towing Stern to Stern ” ” 98

Sectional Model of Russian Man-of-War, 1854 ” ” 106

H.M.S. _Centaur_, _Bulldog_ and _Imperieuse_ engaged
with six Russian Gunboats off Cronstadt, 1855 ” ” 106

H.M.S. _Warrior_ ” ” 110

The _Terror_ ” ” 110

H.M.S. _Black Prince_ ” ” 122

The _Bangor_ ” ” 122

The _Merrimac_ before Conversion ” ” 126

The _Merrimac_ as Converted into an Ironclad ” ” 126

The _Monitor-Merrimac_ duel ” ” 130

The _Monitor_ and _Albemarle_ ” ” 134

Federal Gunboat _St. Louis_ ” ” 134

Capture of New Orleans: Attack on Fort Phillip ” ” 142

The _Prince Albert_ as Converted to a Turret Ship ” ” 146

H.M.S. _Minotaur_ ” ” 146

The Foundering of the _Affondatore_ in the Harbour
of Ancona ” ” 152

The Wreck of the _Captain_ ” ” 152

H.M.S. _Devastation_ ” ” 162

The Old _Dreadnought_ ” ” 170

The Big Guns of the Old _Dreadnought_ ” ” 170

H.M.S. _Inflexible_ ” ” 176

Russian Circular Monitor _Novgorod_ ” ” 186

The French Iron-plated Ship _Magenta_ ” ” 186

Duel between the _Vesta_ and the _Assar-I-Tewfik_ ” ” 214

Russian Torpedo Boats on the Danube in the Russo-Turkish
War ” ” 214

U.S. Ram _Katahdin_ ” ” 222

The U.S. Dynamite-Gun Boat _Vesuvius_ ” ” 224

The _Maine_ entering Havana Harbour ” ” 224

The Spanish Battleship _Pelayo_ ” ” 230

U.S. Battleship _Texas_ ” ” 232

U.S. Battleship _Iowa_ ” ” 232

The Russian Battleship _Tsarevitch_ after the Fight
off Port Arthur ” ” 236

Effects of Japanese Shells on the _Gromoboi_ ” ” 236

The Japanese Battleship _Asahi_ ” ” 240

The Russian Battleship _Navarin_ ” ” 240

H.M.S. _Victoria_, Firing 110-ton Gun ” ” 244

H.M.S. _Victoria_, Showing 110-ton Guns ” ” 244

H.M.S. _Majestic_ ” ” 248

H.M.S. _King Edward VII_ ” ” 250

H.M.S. _Lord Nelson_ ” ” 250

The German Dreadnought Cruiser _Von der Tann_ ” ” 254

Russian Cruiser _Rurik_ ” ” 258

Russian Cruiser _Rossia_ ” ” 258

H.M. Cruiser _Indomitable_ ” ” 260

H.M.S. _Liverpool_ ” ” 260

French Cruiser _Ernest Renan_ ” ” 262

French Cruiser _Danton_ ” ” 262

4-inch Breech-loading 40-Calibre Gun and Mounting
for Torpedo Boat Destroyers ” ” 266

12½-pounder Quick-firing 50-Calibre Gun and
Mounting ” ” 266

Heavy Gun unmounted ” ” 270

6-inch Breech-loading 50-Calibre Gun completed
and with Mounting ” ” 270

Projectiles and Charges used in the British Navy ” ” 274

12-inch Breech Mechanism (Closed and Open) ” ” 278

Interior of a Barbette showing 12-inch Gun, H.M.S.
_Cæsar_ ” ” 278

The 12-inch Guns of H.M.S _Neptune_ ” ” 282

A Torpedo, discharged from a Destroyer, travelling by
its own Engines towards an Armoured Battleship ” ” 286

The Holland Submarine ” ” 290

The Goubet Submarine ” ” 290

British Submarine A.13 ” ” 296

The British Submarine C.22 ” ” 296

Submarine D.1 with Wireless Telegraph Mast ” ” 298

Launch of U.S. Submarine _Narwhal_ ” ” 298

French Submarine “X” ” ” 298

The _Transporter_ ” ” 300

U.S. Gunboat _Paducah_ ” ” 300

First Torpedo Boat Built for the Norwegian Government ” ” 302

H.M. Torpedo Boat _Lightning_ ” ” 302

H.M. Torpedo Boat No. 79, Built in 1886 ” ” 302

H.M.S. _Vulcan_ ” ” 302

High Speed Sea-going Torpedo Boat Propelled by
Internal Combustion Engines ” ” 304

U.S. Destroyer _Lawrence_ ” ” 304

Stern View of H.M.S. _Sylvia_ ” ” 306

H.M.S. Torpedo Boat Destroyer _Swift_ ” ” 308

H.M.S. _Wear_ ” ” 308

H.M.S. Torpedo Boat Destroyer _Tartar_ ” ” 310

H.M. Torpedo Boat Destroyer _Maori_ ” ” 310

U.S. Scout _Salem_ ” ” 312

U.S.S. _Maine_ ” ” 312

H.M.S. _Dreadnought_ ” ” 314

H.M.S. _Neptune_ ” ” 318

H.M. Super-Dreadnought _Colossus_ ” ” 318

The Brazilian Battleship _Minas Geraes_ ” ” 322

U.S.S. _North Dakota_ ” ” 324