antiago, blockade of, 285;
battle outside, 287, etc.

Schley, U.S. admiral, 278, etc.

Sebastopol, attack on sea-front, 209, 211

Selim II, 70

Semenoff, Captain, personal narrative of Tsu-shima, 313, 319, 320, 322,
327, 328;
taken prisoner, 340

Seymour, Lord Henry, 118, 126, 129, 132

Shafter, General, operations against Santiago, 286, etc.

Sigvald Jarl, 47

Sluys, 55, etc.

Steam applied to warships, 206, etc.

Steevens, John and Robert, inventors, 210

Strachan, Sir Richard, takes Dumanoir's squadron, 203

Suleiman the Magnificent, 70

Svold Island, battle of, 40, etc.

T

Takeomi, Admiral, 322, 331

Tegethoff, Austrian commander at Lissa, 235, etc.

Terschelling, sack of, 156

Themistocles, 4, 13, 14, 22

Ting, Chinese admiral at the Yalu, 259, etc.

Togo, captain of the "Naniwa" in the Chinese War, 260;
admiral commanding in chief in war with Russia, 301, etc.;
preparations for Baltic Fleet, 310, etc.;
his battle signal, 325;
slightly wounded, 333

Torpedoes, 252, 253

Trafalgar, 173, etc.

Troy, 4

Tsu-shima, battle of, 321, etc.

Turks, growth of their power, 67

U

Ulugh Ali, renegade Turkish admiral, 77, 84, 85;
counter-attack at Lepanto, 101;
his escape, 102

United States: the navy and the Civil War, 213, etc.;
the navy after the war, 277;
the new navy, 278;
situation at outbreak of war with Spain, 278, 279

Uriu, Admiral, 331

Urs de Margina, defender of fortress of Lissa, 237

V

Valdes, Diego Flores de, admiral of the Castilian squadron of the Armada,
114

Valdes, Pedro de, admiral of the Andalusian squadron, 114, 123

Van Tromp, 148, etc.

Veniero, Sebastian, Venetian admiral, 76;
at Lepanto, 97

Vikings. _See_ Norsemen

Viking ships, 43

Villeneuve, French admiral commanding at Trafalgar, 174, etc.;
wounded and taken prisoner, 197

W

Winter, Sir W., 118, 129, 132

Wireless telegraphy, 319

Witjeft, Russian admiral, killed in battle on the 10th of August, 302

Worden (afterwards Admiral), commander of the "Monitor," 223, etc.;
wounded in fight with "Merrimac," 227

X

Xantippus, 23

Xerxes, 4;
his great expedition, 5, etc.;
watches the battle of Salamis, 16;
return to Asia, 21, 22

Y

Yalu, naval battle of the, 255, etc.

York, Duke of (afterwards James II), 145, 158

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