Volume 5 covered:
Two papers from the 2006 Conference, ‘Venice and British Dockyards to 1800’
Four papers from the 2007 conference, ‘Malta – Dockyard, Strategic Pivot, and Maritime Heritage Outlook’
A paper from the inaugural 1996 conference, ‘Theme: Sabotage is suspected’
A residual paper from the 1998 conference, ‘ “At the Ringing of the Bell”: Dockyards, Management and Workforces’
References to illustrations are in italics. Dates in brackets after ships’ names are launch dates (p. = purchased). Ships renamed after the Restoration appear under their later name with their original launch date. Ranks and titles are generally those held at the time of reference in Transactions.
A
Abyssinia 67
Academia de Ingegneros, Cartagena (1776) 44
Académie Royale de Marine (1752–93) 45
Accademia dei Nobilion Giudecca island (1619–1782) 41
Achilles [r. Achille] (74), HMS (1798) 11
Adams, Alfred Gordon 22
Aigle (ex L’Aigle) see L’Aigle
Albemarle, Duke of, see Fitzjames, Henry
Alberghetti, Sigismondo, 41
Alexander (74), HMS (1778) 65
Algerine War (1670–71) 76
Alicante, nautical school (1799) 45
Amazon (46), HMS (1821) 11
Annapolis Royal 15
Anne, Queen of Great Britain 84
Anne (70), HMS (1678) 81, 82, 86n
Anne and Christopher (fireship), HMS (p. 1672) 79
anti-slavery patrols (RN) 56
Antigua 55; see also English Harbour
Archer, Miguel 44
Arenys de Mar, nautical school (1779) 45
Ars Nautica (1555) 32
Arsenale, Malta see Malta, Arsenale
Arsenale, Venice
Arabic numerals in use 30
Baxon, Teodoro, master 29
created (1302) 29
entrance 33
galley design (1746) 29
galley numbers (1797) 40
galley sheds 98
proti (foreman shipwrights) 32, 36
reggimento dell’Arsenal 41
Scuola di Naval Architetura, Venice (1777) 44
Tezzone all Seghe 43
arsenelotti, of Venice 27
Arte del Navigar (1591) 40
Arte para fabricar, fortificar y aparejar naos de guerra y mercante (1622) 40
Ascension Island, victualling station at 56, 57
Assistance (50), HMS (1650) 78, 79
Astley, Sir John 30
B
Baker, Vice-Admiral John (1660–1716) 57
Baker, Matthew 30–31, 32, 34
balestriere del cassero, 41
Ballard, Rear Admiral George Alexander 87–92
Banes, George (foreman of the yard at Sheerness, 1840) 10–11
Barbary corsairs and regencies 41, 42, 47, 74
Barthlot, Brian 90
Bartolo, Augustus 89
Baviere, ?, Director of Naval Intelligence 90
Baxon, Teodoro, master of the Arsenale 29, 36n
Bayonne 31
Belardinelli, Arnaldo 67
Bellini, Gentile 30
Benbow, Admiral John 55
Berkeley of Stratton, John, Lord 81
Bermuda Maritime Museum 60
Bermuda naval base and dockyard 23, 62
Commissioner’s House 53, 60, 60, 62
supplied by Halifax 22
Berwick, James FitzJames, Duke of 82
Betts, William 77
Bezout, Étienne 41, 45
Bigie Palace, Malta 61
Bilbao 31, 44
Birch, Fabua 80
Bloody Island, Minorca 61
Bombay, HEIC dockyard 54
Bosio, Giacomo 92
Boston, Massachusetts, careening wharf at (18th c) 14
Bouger, Pierre 41
Bow Street Runners 9
Bronza, Francesco 43–4
Buda, Siege of (1686) 82
Burbidge, John (constructor at Halifax) 17
Byng, Admiral Sir George, 1st Viscount Torrington 84
C
Camocke, Rear Admiral and Admiral George 84
Campbell, Archibald 47, 49n
Camperdown (106), HMS (ex Trafalgar) (1820) 9, 10–11
Candia, Giorgio 80
Candian War 41
Caniato, Dr ? 97
Cano, Thomè 40
Capi di Piazza, Venice 43
Capitoli di regolazione della marina mercantile (1682) 42
Carafa, Gregorio, Grand Master of the Order of St John 80, 81, 82
careening wharves, North America (18th c) 15, 24n
Carli, Gian Rinaldo 43
carrack carpenter (1416) 31
carvels, English 31
Casa de Contrataciòn, Seville 44
Casa dell’Arsenale, Venice 42
Cassar, Pierre 98
Catherine of Braganza 54, 74, 81
Centurion (50), HMS (1650) 76
Charles I, King of England 74
Charles II, King of England 54, 74, 75
Charles Galley (32), HMS (1676) 80, 81
Charleston, South Carolina 22
careening wharf at (18th c) 14, 56
Charlton, John (master house carpenter at Halifax) 17
Chartists 9–14
Chatham Royal Dockyard
dry dock (1611) 34
Elizabethan development 25
origins 34
ropery 13
size of (1800) 54
Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia 19
Chebucto River, Nova Scotia 56
Churchill, Arabella 82
Clares, ? (Dutchman) 42
Clarke, Lady Frances 97
Clos des Galées, Rouen 31
Coad, Jonathan, ‘To serve the fleet in distant waters. Buildings of the Georgian Royal Navy’s overseas bases’ 51–63
Codice per la Veneta Mercantile Marina (1786) 42, 47
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 42
Collegio de San Telma 44
Collegio dei Guardiastendardi 46
Collegio di Marina 47
Colvill, Commodore Alexander, Commissioner at Halifax 16
Compendio del Arte de Navegaciòn (1717) 44
convict labour, used by the Royal Navy 54
convoys, Venetian 42
Cook, Captain James 22, 45
Corfu: Venetian naval training school (1673) 41
Cornwall (50), HMS (1812) 11
Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Livorno 76
Costantini, Massimo 42
Cotoner, Nicolas 75, 75, 77
Cottonera Lines, Malta 77
Cours de mathématiques à l’usage du corps de l’artillerie (1797) 41
courts martial, Royal Navy 79
covered slips, in dockyards 97
Crescenzio, Bartolomeo 40
Crown, HMS (50) (ex Taunton) (1654) 80, 81, 82
Cyprus 71
D
Davies, J. David 98
‘ “The strongest island in the whole world”. Aspects of Anglo-Maltese naval relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’ 73–86
de Fleury, Marquis 81
de L’Isle, Adam 73
de Medici, Leopold 76
de Nicolo, Pre Theodoro 31
de Rohan, Grand Master 80
de Vertot, Abbé de 92
de Zuanne de Michiel, Stefano 33
Defence White Paper (1955) 69–70
Del Pozzo, Bartolomeo 92
Delia, Dr ? 67
Demaxeno, Simond 80
Denmark: naval academy (1701) 45
Deptford, anchorage at 34
Deptford Pool 34
Deptford Royal Dockyard
dry dock (1611) 34
shipwrights (1559) 34
DesBarres, Frederick 22
Devonport Chronicle 9
Devonport Independent 9
Digby, Captain Francis 74–5
Dimech, Manwel 67, 68
Dissertazione meccanica di due strumenti che possono servire alla giusta stima del viaggio marittimo (1752) 41
dockyard police 10–11, 12, 13
Dragon (40), HMS (1687) 80, 81
dry docks 54
du Monceau, Duhamel 41, 45
Duff, James (dockyard inspector at Sheerness) 10–11
Duncan, Admiral ? (1840) 10
Duncan, Captain Henry, Commissioner at Halifax 17, 24
Durante, Commander (Italian Seaplane Service) 68
Durell, Commodore Philip, Commissioner at Halifax 16
Duteil, Jean-Baptiste 75
E
East India Company (British) 51, 54
Ebesham, John 30
Edgcombe, Arthur 47
Edgcombe, Thomas 47
Edward carvel, built at Dunwich (1468) 27
Elements d’architecture navale (1754) 41
Emo, Angelo 44, 47
English Harbour, Antigua 52, 53, 53, 54
anchorage and careening base 55,57
careening capstans 57
closed (1889) 55
double dry dock proposed (1795) 54
galley 57
Master Shipwright’s House 59
sawpits 58
Erith, anchorage at 34
Escuela de nautical y Mineralogia, Gijon (1773) 45
Escuela gratuita de nautica, Barcelona (1769) 44, 45
Essell, George 12
Euler(o), Leonhard / Leonardo 41
Europa (Tangier hulk) 76, 77, 78, 79
Examen Marìtimo Theorico Pratico o Tratado de Mechanica aplicado a la construction naval y manejo de los navìos y demàs embarcaciones (1771) 44
F
Fabrica di Galere MS 29
Falcon (Gracedieu’s balinger), accounts for 27
Fausto, Vetto 32
Ferrari Bravo, Martino 97
‘The Nautical School of Venice of 1739 and the English teachers, navigation training in Venice: between seamanship and science’ 39–49
Finch, Sir John (ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) 76, 80
fire engines, at Halifax (1750s) 17, 24
Fisher, Admiral Sir John, CinC Mediterranean Fleet 94
Fitzjames, Henry, Duke of Albemarle 82, 83
Fitzroy, Henry, Duke of Grafton 81, 81
Forsyth, William (mast contractor at Halifax) 24
Fort Berkeley, Antigua 53, 55
Fort Ricasoli, Malta 77
Fragments of Ancient Shipwrightry 31, 32, 36
Frendo, Henry 98
‘Strategy, economics and politics: The naval dockyard in Malta and the Mediterranean’ 65–72
G
galley frigates, British 75, 80
galley sheds 97
galleys, English 32
Gambello, Antonio 33
Gardes de Marine 45
George’s Island, Halifax
careening wharf, 16
hospital, 20
Gerrish, Joseph, Storekeeper at Halifax 17, 25n
Gibraltar Dockyard 53, 53, 54, 54, 71
Agent Victualler’s House 62
careening wharf 57
Commissioner’s House 59
naval hospital 61, 61
The Mount 59
Victualling Storekeeper’s House 59
Victualling storehouse and yard 62, 62
Giles, Matthew 67
Giove Fulminante (1667) 40
Gobineau, Arthur, Comte de: The Crimson Handkerchief 92
Goreham, Mary 25n13
Goreham, William (truckman at Halifax) 25n13
Goreham’s Point, Halifax: careening wharf 16
Gozzi, Gaspare 41
Gracedieu (1418)
accounts for 27
construction of 34
dimensions of 28
Granby sloop, wrecked near Halifax (1771) 24
Grand Priors of England 82, 83, 85n4
Great Bark (in 1517) 34
Great Galley (in 1517) 34
Green, Lieutenant Colonel Sir William 59
Griffith, W. A., A Brief Outline of the Foundation and Detachments of HM Establishments at Malta (1917) 87, 89
Grimani, Pietro 43
Gwyn, Julian, ‘The Halifax naval yard before 1820’ 15–25
H
Haddock, Admiral Nicholas 61
Hales, fra’ Robert 73
Halifax (16), HMS (1806) 22
Halifax Yard, Nova Scotia, 15–24
Admiralty or Flag Officer’s House (1814–19) 16, 59, 60
boat house 17
capstan house 17, 18
careening wharves (1750s to 60s) 15, 16, 17, 21, 56
Charlton, John, master house carpenter 17
cooperage 16
fence replaced by a stone wall 19–20, 24
fire engine shed 17
George’s Island: careening wharf 16
Gerrish, Joseph, storekeeper 17
Goreham’s Point: careening wharf and watering wharf 16
guard house, 17
hemlock used for buildings, 19; replaced by stone, 19
Hood, Commodore Samuel, 1st Viscount 18
hospitals 20, 21
Joshua Mauger’s distillery and storehouse 16
locator map 16
map of (1776–1815) 18
mast house and slip 17
mast ponds 16, 17
navy bills 24
ordnance yard 20
pitch house 17
porter’s lodge 17
resident commissioner’s mansion (1785–87) 20
shipbuilding 22
ship repair 21
smith’s shop 17
storehouses 18, 20
strategic value (1793–1815) 23
tenements for yard officers 20
trade with Halifax town 23–4
Tufts Cove 17
victualling yard 20
work force 21
Hallowell, Benjamin (shipbuilder in Boston, Massachusetts) 17
Hamble 34
Hamond, Captain Sir Andrew Snape, Commissioner at Halifax 20
Hampshire (48), HMS (1653) 81
Harwich (70), HMS (1674) 77, 79, 80–81
hemlock, used for buildings at Halifax 19; replaced by stone 19
Henderson, I. W. S., Director of Naval Intelligence 90
Henrietta (60), HMS (ex Langport) (1654) 77, 80, 81
Henrietta Maria, Queen 74
Henry III, King of France 27
Henry VIII, King of England 73
Henry Grace à Dieu (1514), construction 34
Henty, John (ship’s carpenter) 10–11, 12
Herman, Arthur 93
Hervey, Captain Augustus 85
High Court of Chivalry 80
Hill, Sir John, Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard 12
Holl, Edward, Navy Board architect 53, 61
use of iron in construction 60
Holland, Samuel 22
Hood, Commodore Samuel, 1st Viscount, Commissioner at Halifax 18
Hosier, Admiral Francis (1673–1727) 55
hospitals, naval, see naval hospitals
Houlding, Captain William 78
Howe, Richard, 1st Earl, First Lord of the Admiralty 97
Hunter (Levant company ship) 76
Hurd, Captain Thomas Hannaford 56
I
Il-Mizuri li ha l-Gvern; biex Jghin kemm Jista’ lill-Haddiem u lill-fqir (booklet) 89–90
Imogene (28), HMS (1831) 10
Imperial Regia Accademia di Commercio e Nautica, Trieste (1753) 46
Ingolls, William (constructor at Halifax) 17
Inquisitor’s Palace, Malta 61
Instructione sul mode di fabricare galere 31, 32
insurance rates (17th c) 40
Ireland Island, Bermuda 22, 56, 57, 62
Isabella Yacht (8), HMS (1683) 82
J
James II & VII, King of England and Scotland 80, 81, 82, 83, 84
James III & VIII, ‘Old Pretender’ 84
Jennings, Admiral Sir John 61
Juno (32), HMS (1780) 80
K
Keith, Rear Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin 61
Kent, Duke of (Prince Edward Augustus), at Halifax 20
Killigrew, Henry (cleric) 81
Killigrew, Commodore Henry 80
Kilmainham, preceptory 73
Kingston, Jamaica: hospital at (1701) 55
Knight, Roger 97, 98
Knights of St John, Malta, see Order of St John
Knowles, Commodore Charles
‘father’ of West Indian bases 53
Governor of Louisbourg 15, 24n3
L
La Coruña, nautical school (1790) 45
La Vilette 73
Lagos Bay, Battle of (1693) 83
L’Aigle [r. Aigle ex L’Aigle] (38), HMS (1780) 80
Langport (60), HMS (1654) see Henrietta
Latham, Captain ?, RE 61
Lepanto, Battle of (1571) 40
Lesser Bark (in 1517) 34
Levello, Augostino 34
Lisbon, hospital at (1705) 60
Lloyd, Captain David 82
Long House, Southampton (1454) 33–4
longitude by moon distance 44
Lord High Admiral, office of 81
Louisbourg 15, 24n
Lyme (62), HMS (1654) see Mountagu
M
Macdonnell, Captain Sir Randall 84
Macdonnell, Rene 84
MacDougall, Philip, ‘Blame it on the Chartists. Three dockyard fires of 1840’ 9–14
Madonna della Salute (Venice) 43, 44
magistrato all’Armar, Venice 41
Malta
Birgu arsenal 77, 79, 93
Bormla 93
capture by Britain (1800) 84
Catholic threat to Protestant England 84
Cottonera Lines 77
Dockyard, see Malta Dockyard and base
‘English’ and ‘French’ creeks 82, 92, 93
English consul at (17th c) 73
Fisher on 94–5
Fitzroy visits 81
Fort Ricasoli 77
Fort St Angelo 74, 77, 83
‘French’ and ‘English’ creeks 82, 92, 93
fresh water supply 98
Governor of 91; see also Methuen; Plumer
Grand Harbour 65, 70, 75, 76
Great Siege (1565) 73
Hotel des Capitaines des Galères et Vaisseaux 92
Kalkara Creek 77, 82
Killigrew visits 80–81
Lascaris wharf 82
Mandaraggio 93
Marsaxlokk harbour 65
Narborough visits 76, 77–8, 79
and Ottoman invasion 84
plague (1676) 778
proposed exchange for Eritrea 70
proposed integration with the UK 69, 70
restoration of the English langue 84
St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta 75
self-determination and independence 88, 95
Senglea 92
Smart City project 71
supports the Jacobite cause 84
Teonge visits 77–8
trade with England/Britain 72–3
Trumbull visits 80
Vittoriosa 92
Wignacourt aqueduct 76
Malta Arsenale (tarzna) 65
Malta Chronicle 89
Malta Dockyard and base 54, 55, 57, 93
Armstrong crane no. 2919 97
Ballard, Rear Admiral George, Senior Naval Officer (1916–19) 87–92
Bormla dock 93
Coaling Depot 93
deportations to Uganda 67, 68
dockyard housing 59, 59, 93
Dockyard School 65
dry dock (1843) 93
first strike for better pay (1917) 67, 87
fresh water supply 98
General Workers’ Union (1843) 67
Hamilton Dock (1883) 93
Hydraulic Dock (1873) 93
illiteracy in 87, 90–91, 92
industrial unrest 69, 70, 87, 89, 91
Italian propaganda in 87–8
naval hospital 61, 62, 62
New Docks 93
New Factory 93
No. 1 Dock 98
Noon day gun 99
Ordnance Depot 93
ranks and rates (1933) 66, 71n–72n
Saw Mills 93
Second World War 68, 69
Somerset Dock (1867) 93
‘struggle for the five day week’ (1947) 59
tartane boats 93
wartime employment rates (20th c) 66
workers, social class of 66
Malta Herald 90
Manhattan Island, careening wharf at (18th c) 56
Manuel Cedillo, Pedro 44
Manner and Fourme how to kepe a Reconyge, The 30
Margaret Cely, repaired (1468) 27
Margaret galley (1671) 75, 80
Maria Sophia of Neuberg, Queen of Portugal 81
Marsh, Mr, resident storekeeper at Mahon 57
Marshall, Joseph, constructor at Halifax 17
Martin (Levant company ship) 76
Martinovic, Marko 45–6
Mary Rose (in 1517) 34
Mary Sampson merchantman (in 1628) 73
Massa degli Albizzi, Luca di 28
Mazarredo, José de 44
Mediterranean Fleet, size of (1902–7) 94
Melita, HMS (1893) 93
Menorca see Minorca
Mercieca, Arturo, Crown advocate 88
Mercieca, Simon, ‘ “Beyond the capacity of a small island”. A review of unpublished research by WA Griffith on Maltese dockyards’ 87–96
Mermaid (32), HMS (1651) 80, 81, 82
Methuen, Field Marshal Paul, 3rd Baron, Governor of Malta 88, 90–91
Michael of Rhodes MS 29
Middleton, Charles 97
Mifsud, Sir Ugo 68
Mi’kmaq, supply brooms and baskets to Halifax Naval Yard 23
Millo, Antonio 40
Minden (74), HMS (1810) 10
Minorca naval base see Port Mahon
Mintoff, Dom 69, 70
Misure di vascelli di proto nell arsenale di Venezia 31–2
Mizzi, Nerik 67, 70, 71
Metropolitan Police 9, 12
take over from Dockyard police as Metropolitan Police (Dockyard Division) (1860) 13–14
Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Venice 98
Monarch (84), HMS (1832) 11
Morea, conquest of (1689) 82
Mountagu (62) [r. Montagu], HMS (ex Lyme) (1654) 74, 75
Murray, Admiral ? 56
Murray, Lord William 81
Musalo, Andrea 43
Muscote, Joseppo 80
N
Naples, nautical school (1749) 46
Narbrough, Sir John 76, 77–8, 79, 80, 81, 83
Native Americans, used by the Royal Navy 75
Nautica Mediterranea (1601) 40
naval hospitals 52
Gibraltar 61
Halifax 20, 21
Malta 61, 62, 62
Port Mahon 56, 57, 61
Port Royal, Minorca 55, 61
Navi Atte (Venice) 40, 46, 48n
navigation, Venetian (17th c) 39–41, 42
Navigation Act (1660) 51
navy bills, at Halifax 24
New Treatise of Navigation (1715) 46
New York, naval yard at (1776–83) 22, 23
‘Newcastle galley’ 28
Newport, Sir Thomas 73
Newport naval yard (1776–79) 22
nobile da pupa 41
Norfolk, Virginia, careening wharf at (18th c) 14
Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of 83, 84
O
octant 44
Ohart, Maurio 80
Oliveira, Fernando 32
Olivier, Borg 70
Order of St John, Malta 73, 77, 80–81
acquires ‘vascelli’, ships of the line (1703–5) 80, 83, 92, 93
Francophile bias 84–5
naval policy 93
Ordonnance touchant la marine du mois d’aout (1681) 42
P
Padua University 43
Palma de Majorca, nautical school (1802) 45
Palmer, Roger, Earl of Castlemaine 86n59
Passarowitz Peace (1718) 44
Paston, John II 30
Pearce, Inspector Nicholas 12
Pearl (32), HMS (1651) 82
Pedro II, King of Portugal 81
Peele, James 30
Peeters, Jan 83
Perast, nautical training school 45
Perellos y Rocaful, Grand Master 83, 84
Peter Pomegranate (in 1517) 34
Petit Jesus balinger, rebuilt (1436) 34
pettyaugers 22
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, careening wharf at (18th c) 14
Philip III, King of Spain 44
Pierpont, Joseph (constructor at Halifax) 17
Plumer, Field Marshal Herbert, 1st Viscount, Governor of Malta 91
Plumper (12), HMS (1807) 22
Plymouth Royal Dockyard
dry dock (1611) 34
fires in (1840) 9, 10, 12–13
Spinning House 60
Poleni, Giovanni 43
Port Antonio, Jamaica (1729–55) 53, 55, 57
Port Mahon, Minorca 53, 54, 76
captured (1708) 55
careening wharves 57
convent at 57
naval hospital 57, 60, 60, 61, 61
Port Royal, Jamaica 54, 55, 55, 57
naval hospital 61
Porter, Whitworth 92
Portsmouth, anchorage at (1494) 33
Portsmouth (8), HMS (1674) 77
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
builds Sweepstake, royal bark 28
dry dock (1611) 34
Royal Naval Academy (1733–1806) 43
shipwrights (16th c) 35
Prince Frederick (70), HMS (1740) 52
Procuratie, Venice 43
Potestant Alliance 67
Provveditori all’Armar 48n
punti cospicuosi 40
Q
quinquereme (1529) 32
R
Ragioni Antique spettanti al’ arte del mare et Fabriche de Vasselli 29, 30
Ramusio, Giovanni Batisita 29
Ratcliff, London 33, 34
Real Colegio y Seminario de Sevilla 44
Real Compañia de Guardiamarinas 44
Real Junta de Comercio de Cataluña 44
Redington, fra’ John 73
Refalo, Dr Mikielang, Crown advocate 88
Regent, built in Kent (1487) 28
reggimento dell’Arsenal, Venice 41
Rhode Island, careening wharf at (18th c) 56
Richard II, King of England 73
Richards, Jacob 42, 48n26
Riformatore dello Studio di Padova 41, 43
Riley, Stephen 98
Rochester Gazette 9
Rooke, Sir George 52
Rose, Susan 97
‘Galley and round ships: Venetian and English attitudes to ship design and building in the sixteenth century’ 27–37
Rotterdam, nautical school 45
Rous, Captain John 24n6
Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth (1733–1806) 43, 46
Royal Ordenanza de Arsenale 44 rutters, English 30
S
Saffron Island, Minorca 54, 57
St George, Bermuda 56
St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist, Hospital of 81
St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta 75
St Petersburg nautical school 45
Sallee squadron 80, 81
San Carlo (1761) 31
San Giacomo 83
San Giovanni 83
Saunders, Captain Jacob 84
Savoy Hospital 81
Scamp, William 53, 57
Scientia Navalis (1749) 41
Scuola dei Marineri, Venice 42
Scuola di Nautica, Venice (1739) 39, 41, 42, 47–8
Scuola di Naval Architetura, Venice (1777) 44
seamen, Maltese, in the Royal Navy 80
Sedgemoor (50), HMS (1687) 82
sesto e partisan construction 32
Sharrow, Joseppo 80
Sheerness Royal Dockyard
fires in (1840) 9, 10
shipbuilding: Venetian and English design methods compared 27–32
shipworm see Teredo navalis
shipwrights, in the time of Henry VIII 34–5
Shovell, Sir Cloudesley 52, 78, 83, 84
Sick and Hurt Board 60, 63
Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope 56
Simple, Brigadier ? 89
Siron, Captain ? 46–7
Slade, Thomas, Surveyor of the Navy 51
slaves, used by the Royal Navy 53, 75
Sobieska, Maria Clementina 84
Society of the Enlightened, The (Malta, 1911) 67
Sol d’Oro 40
solcometro a barchetta 46
Soper, William 33
sopracomiti 41
sottopiloti 46
Southampton Water 33
Soveraigne, launched 1497 34
Sovereign, built c. 1487 28
Spragge, Sir Edward 76
Spry, Commodore Sir Richard, Commissioner at Halifax 15, 16
Stanhope, General James, 1st Earl 54–5
Starkey, Sir Oliver 73, 85n4
Strada Christophora, Malta 62
Stratico, Simmone 41
Strickland, Gerald, 1st Baron 91
Suez Canal 65, 70
Surveyor-General’s department 53
Swan (32), HMS (p. 1673) 77, 78
Sweepstake, royal bark 28
T
Talavera (74), HMS (1818) 10, 11, 12
Tana, Venice 34
Tangier naval base 54, 74, 76, 81, 83
Taunton (50), HMS (1654) see Crown
Taylor, G. L. (Navy Board architect) 60
Teonge, Henry 78, 79
Teoria compiuta della costruzione e manovra dei bastimenti (1776) 41
Teredo navalis 52
Tesoriere, Francesco 69
Thistle, Order of the 80
Tibbles, Tony 98
Timbotta, or Trombetta, Giorgio 29
Timbotta MS 29, 30
Time Team 34
Toulon Squadron 83
Torpichen, preceptory 73
Trafalgar, Battle of (1805) 80
Trafalgar (106), HMS (1820) see Camperdown
Tratado de Cosmografia y Nautica (1745) 44
Trattato della nave, della sua costruzione, e de’ suoi movimenti (1777) 41
Tricomalee, Ceylon / Sri Lanka 56, 56
Tripoli 78
Bashaw of 81
Trumbull, Sir William, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 80, 82
Tucci, Ugo 31, 32
Tufts Cove, Halifax 17
Turtle Bay, Manhattan, careening wharf at (18th c) 14, 24n
U
United Services Gazette 9, 10
Universidad de Mareantes of Seville 44
Upton, Sir Nicholas 73
V
Valentine (Gracedieu’s barge), accounts for 27
vascelli (Maltese ships of the line) 80, 83, 92, 93
Vathi, Ithaca 76
Veilo, Bastiano 80
Venice
bomb vessels, 42, 43
Casa dell’Arsenale 42
convoys 42
merchant marine training school (1673) 41
merchant marine training school, Corfu (1734–40) 43–4
Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico 98
mortars and cannons, English style 42, 43
Nautical School (1739) 46
nautical training course (161) 41
naval training school, Corfu (1673) 41
Navi Atte 40
Procuratie 43
ships’ crews (17th and 18th c) 40, 41
shipbuilding at (13th c) 29
shipbuilding at (17th and 18th c) 40
Vice-Admiral of England, office of 81
Vickers-Armstrong 70
Victory (100) HMS (1765) 51
victualling, Royal Navy 52
Victualling Board / Commissioners 52, 62
Vignola, Cesare, 41 46
Von Schulemburg, Giovanni Maria 43
Votier, Captain John 79
W
War of Chioggia 35
Warren, Commodore Peter 15, 24n2
Wells, John 32
Weston, Sir William 73
Wignacourt aqueduct, Malta 76
William of Orange 84
Williams, Mary-Louise 98
Winchilsea, Earl of, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 80
Winthuysen y Pineda, Commander Javier 45
Wodehouse, Captain the Hon. Philip, Commissioner at Halifax 21
Woolwich Royal Dockyard
fires in (1840) 9
origins 34
ropewalk (16th c) 35
shipwrights (16th c) 35
Wylde, Captain Charles 76
X
Ximenes, Leonardo 41
Y
Yarmouth (52), HMS (1653) 77
Z
Zaghlul, Saad 71
Zeernanscollege, Amsterdam (1748) 45
Zeno, Ranieri, doge of Venice 29
Ziani, Pietro, doge of Venice (1229) 29
Zibaldone da Canal 30
Naval Dockyards Society 