List of Illustrations

The placement of a tourniquet

Medical instruments

Map of Europe and Africa with Inset of Europe

Map of Indian Ocean

Map of East Indies with Inset

Types of Sailing Ships

The Decks and Square Sails of a 74-Gun Ship

The Fore-and-Aft Sails and Selected Rigging of a 74-Gun Ship

Masts, Sails, and Rigging

A Warship’s Boats

The Admiralty

Albatross

Auk

A ship running before the wind

Action off Camperdown

Cassowary

Captain Thomas Cochrane

Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood

The U.S.S. Constitution Defeats H.M.S. Java

Duck-billed platypus

Admiral Lord Keith

The Fleet Prison

Frigate bird

A sloop on duty near the Rock of Gibraltar

Cannon

H.M.S. Surprise cuts out the Hermione

Admiral Sir John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent

Kingfisher

The new mole at Gibraltar

Napoleon Bonaparte

Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson

Points of sailing

Maylay proas in Coupong Bay

Topmen furling a sail

A first-rate ship of the line

A ship scudding before a heavy wind

A polacca with a view of Stromboli

A tartan near Europa Point, Gibraltar

A ship beating to windward under trysails

A ship wearing

Thames wherry

A xebec near the mole at Naples