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William Henry Giles Kingston. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
Early English Ships (from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1087.)
Chapter Three
The Navy in the days of the Plantagenets—from A.D. 1087 to A.D. 1327
Chapter Four
Ships and Commerce to the reign of Henry the Seventh—from A.D. 1327 to A.D. 1509
Chapter Five
Establishment of the Royal Navy of England—from A.D. 1509 to A.D. 1558
Chapter Six
Reign of Elizabeth—from A.D. 1558 to A.D. 1603
Chapter Seven
James the First—from A.D. 1567 to A.D. 1625
Chapter Eight
Charles the First to Termination of Commonwealth—A.D. 1625 to A.D. 1660
The Commonwealth
Chapter Nine
Charles the Second and James the Second—from A.D. 1660 to A.D. 1689
James the Second
Chapter Ten
A View of Naval affairs in Charles the Second’s Reign
Chapter Eleven
William and Mary—from A.D. 1689 to A.D. 1702
Chapter Twelve
Queen Anne—from A.D. 1702 to A.D. 1714
Chapter Thirteen
George the First and Second—from A.D. 1714 to A.D. 1760
George the Second
Chapter Fourteen
George the Third—from A.D. 1760 to A.D. 1782
Chapter Fifteen
George the Third—from War with Republican France, A.D. 1792, to end of A.D. 1802
Chapter Sixteen
George the Third—from A.D. 1803 to end of war A.D. 1814
Chapter Seventeen
War with United States of America to war in Syria—from A.D. 1811 to A.D. 1840
First War with Burmah—1826
The Second Burmese War—1851–52
Battle of Navarino—1827
Warfare in Syria with Mahomet Ali
Chapter Eighteen
First War with China, and efforts to suppress the Slave-Trade—A.D. 1840
African Coast Blockade
Dhow chasing on the East Coast of Africa
Expedition up the Niger
Chapter Nineteen
Warfare in the Nineteenth Century—from A.D. 1845 to A.D. 1900
Captain Loch’s expedition up the Saint Juan De Nicaragua
Attacks on Pirates
War with China—1856
Russian War—1854–55
Operations in the Baltic
Chapter Twenty
The Evolution of the Modern Warship
Chapter Twenty One
Modern Engines of War
Chapter Twenty Two
The British Navy of to-day
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William Henry Giles Kingston
Updated to 1900
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Here we have caulking and sheathing together known in the first century of the Christian era; for, of course, the sheet of lead nailed over the outside with copper nails was sheathing, and that in great perfection, the copper nails being used instead of iron, which, when once rusted in the water by the working of the ship, soon lose their hold, and drop out.
Captain Saris, in a voyage to Japan in the year 1613, describes a junk of from eight to ten hundred tons burden, sheathed all over with iron. As in the days of the Plantagenets the country had not the advantage of possessing a Board of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, nor, indeed, any office in which the records of the ships built, altered, rebuilt, or pulled to pieces were kept, or, indeed, any naval records whatever, we are without the means of ascertaining what special improvements were introduced either in shipbuilding or in the fitting or manning of ships during each particular reign. Indeed, for several centuries very slow progress appears to have been made in that art, which ultimately tended to raise England to the prosperous state she has so long enjoyed.
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