Artillery Volunteers, 145-152, |
155, 158 et seq.; his speech to the
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers,
196 et seq.; letter to the Times
(1891) on same, 201; letter to Mr.
Goschen on same, 202; on a
Colonial Naval Volunteer Force,
207 et seq.; on auxiliary cruisers,
225 et seq.; on colonial defence
and coaling stations, 246 et seq.;
on naval training and education,
285 et seq.; on naval manœuvres,
299 et seq.; on the strength of
the British Navy, 331 et seq.
Brightlingsea, fishermen at, 78
Bristol Channel, torpedo boats for,
304

'Bristol,' teaching of seamanship
on board, 287

'Britannia,' naval instruction on,
286

British India Line, steamers and
tonnage, 241

Burgoyne, Captain, his conduct in
the catastrophe to the 'Captain,'
224

Burns, Mr., 119; on structural
arrangements in new steamers,

236

CALCUTTA Chamber of Commerce,
address to, by Lord Brassey on
British Navy, 331 et seq.
Calliope,' escape of the, 291
'Cambridge,' school of gunnery,
72

Canadian Dominion, resources of,
in ships and men, 218; New-
foundland fishermen, 218; op-
portunities for drill in winter,
218; effort to enrol fishermen in
Naval Reserve of the British
empire, 218; drill-ship in win-
ter at St. John's, 219; training
ships in Placentia and Trinity
Bays, 219; ports in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence available for seamen
of Naval Reserve, 220; value of

fishing fleet to Imperial navy in
war-time, 220; total strength of
men employed in fisheries, 220;
Lord Elgin on intimate union
with the mother-country, 221;
a Naval Reserve advisable for
colonial as well as for Imperial
purposes, 221; no large expen-
diture required for scheme of
defence, 221; staff of officers
and instructors to be furnished
by the mother-country, 222; a
colonial reserve a link with the
Royal Navy, 224
Cantyre, 291

Cape Colony, defences of, 269;
requirements necessary, 271
Cape of Good Hope in 1845, 207
Cardwell, Lord, his commission on
naval reserves, 107

Carnarvon, Lord, president of the

Royal Commission on the de-
fence of the empire, 263
Castries (St. Lucia), central coal-
ing station for West Indies, 278;
unhealthiness of the bay, 279,
281; site of town a disadvantage,
279; necessity for limiting popu-
lation, 280

Catherine II. of Russia, her devo-
tion to the fleet, 54
'Centurion,' 339
Channel Fleet, the, 333

Channel Islands, contribution in
1852 of men and boys to navy,
39; fishing boats and men and
boys registered in 1869, 44-51
Charleston, blockade of, in Seces-
sion war, an example of reduced
number of seamen required in
modern war,
Charlottetown, Gulf of St. Law-
rence, volunteers for Canadian
Naval Reserve at, 220
Chatham Chest, the, 142
Childers, Mr., on the navy, 31
China Sea, cruisers for convoy in,

325

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City of Berlin,' log of, from

Queenstown to Sandy Hook and
return, 230

'City of New York,' allowed to
hoist the stars and stripes, 242
City of Paris,' 242; speed, 243
Clyde, the, steam shipping in, in
1870, 10; torpedo boats for, 304
Coaling stations, defences of, 263–
270; requirements necessary to
complete, 270, 271

Coast Defence Association, Lord
Cowper's share in establishment
of, 199

Coast Defence Volunteers, 1; Com-
mission of 1860, 5; estimate
1871-72, 5; neglect of, 21; defi-
ciency in numbers, 22; avail-
able sources of increase, 22;
qualifications of fishermen for
coast service, 22; physique of
Scottish, 23; rejection of un-
suitable men, 23; attempt to
form a second-class reserve, 23;
advantages of local coast know-
ledge possessed by fishermen,
23; their aptitude, 24; their
enrolment advised by naval re-
formers, 24; ports at which the
best men are to be obtained, 25;
training for service on men-of-
war, 25; selection of officers,
25; in alliance with Coast Guard,
26; number of officers required,
26; number of vessels, 27;
stations for posting reserve
vessels, 27; officers drawn from
Coast Guard, 27; retainers for
service, 28; number of vessels
the force is capable of manning,
29; coast-defence flotilla, 29;
distribution of men in flotilla,
30; replacing Coast Guard, 30;
age extended in 1852, 62; re-
commendations of Committee of
1852 and their results, 76;
number and quality of fisher-
men suited for service, 76; local
knowledge of fishermen, 77;
fishermen in gunboats, 78; un-

wise rejection of fishermen for
reserve, 78; their leisure for
drill, 79; original plan in forma-
tion, 80

Coast Guard, Commission of 1860,
5; estimate 1871-72, 5; its
duties combined with command
of Coast-defence Reserve, 26;
number of officers employed in,
27; to furnish officers for coast-
defence reserve, 27; replaced by
Coast Volunteers, 30; numbers
of, in 1859, 57; gunboats desir-
able to increase their efficiency,
147; success of the Life Insur-
ance Fund, 149; good behaviour
of men, 323; the first and best
reserve, 324
Colbert, establishes a system for
pensioning seamen, 133
Coles, Captain, devises the raft

Nancy Dawson' for operations
in the Sea of Azof, 160
Collectors of Customs, Reports of,
in 1869, on fishing boats and
men and boys registered in the
United Kingdom, &c., 44-51
Colomb, Admiral, on the losses

sustained upon English coasts
in the time of the great war,
199; on coast defence, 199
Colomb, Captain, favours co-opera-
tion of colonies with mother-
country for mutual defence, 212;
his proposition of a colonial
dockyard, 213; favours ironclads
for colonial defence, 215; on
local harbour defence, 215
Colomb, the Brothers, urge the
formation of a colonial Naval
Reserve, 209

Colombo, character of its defences,

265; requirements necessary, 271
Colonies, organisation of a naval
reserve in, 207; growth since
1845, 207; Australian exhibits
in Paris Exhibition, 207; Queens-
land, population, products, ex-
ports and imports, 208; South

Australian products, 208; neces-
sity for Naval Reserve, 209;
Royal Naval Reserve and Royal
Naval Artillery Volunteers may
serve as models, 210; Naval
Reserve in connection with Im- |
perial Government, 210; attach-
ment to England, 211; value to
England, 212; home dockyard
to be transferred to Sydney or
Melbourne, 213; local defence,
214; contributions of the several
governments, 214; prepared to
bear their share in a scheme of
Imperial defence, 214; sea-going
war vessels best for defence,
215; local harbour defence, 215;
reserve of ships and men in
Australia, 216; a Royal Com-
mission advised on this point,
217; importance of organising
a scheme of defence, 217; re-
sources of Canada in ships and
men, 218; value of Newfound-
land fishermen for defence, 219
et seq.; Canadian ports available
for seamen of Naval Reserve,
220; close union with mother-
country to be facilitated by im-
proved means of communication,
244; the future of Cyprus, 246
et seq.; Australia's defences and
land forces, 267, 268
Commissariat, defects of the, in
the British army, 218
Compagnie Générale Transatlan-
tique, subsidies, steamers, and
tonnage, 241

'Conqueror,' at battle of Trafalgar,
55

'Conqueror,' qualities as a cruiser,

321

'Conquest,' qualities of, 307, 308
Conscription, naval, in France, 56
Conway,' training of officers on,
72, 113

Coquette' class of gunboats, 227
Cork, as a station for coast-defence
vessels, 27

'Cormorant,' 307, 308

Cowper, Lord, his interest in the
Coast Defence Association,
199

Crimean war, want of a reserve of
engineers and firemen, 30; navy
stokers in, 85
Crimping, 109

'Crocodile,' character of stokers,
85

Cunard Line, outwards and home-
wards run of steamers from
England to America, 230-231;
subsidy, steamers and tonnage,
241; requires previous sailing
service in officers, 288
Cyprus, offers no advantages as
an advanced military post, 246,
256; as a coaling-station, 247,
256; condition of the troops
landed in 1878, 247, 256; defects
of the Commissariat depart-
ment, 248; resources, 250; li-
ability to drought, 250; need for
public works, 251; disadvantage
of the Turkish tribute, 251, 259;
oppressive taxation, 251, 253;
invidious position of our occu-
pation, 253; its acquisition
a question of Imperial policy,
254; agriculture, 258; how the
resources of the island might be
developed, 260; influence of good
government, 260

DAHLGREN, Admiral, on work done
by monitors at Charleston, 5
Darsey Island, 315
Dawson, Captain, R.N., his views
on the numbers and quality of
merchant seamen, 8; on paying
off, 125

Deakin, Mr., on colonial naval
reserves, 268

'De la Guerre Maritime,' Grivel's,
quoted on naval resources of
maritime powers, 3

Denman, Admiral, on number of

seamen required in time of war,
33

Denmark, years spent by officers

in the navy school course, 294
Desertion from the navy, Lord
Nelson on, 35; causes of, among
British sailors, 122
'Devastation,' disadvantages of
her low freeboard, 309, 320
Docks, advantages of private estab-
lishments, 271

Dockyards, proposition of Captain
Colomb to transfer staff of one
to Sydney or Melbourne, 213
'Donegal,' 55

Drake, at the defeat of the Armada,
53

'Dreadnought,' 309

Dumont, M., his plan for training
boys as seamen, 70
Dunlop, Mr., of Glasgow, on the
ability of shipowners to man
their vessels, 115

Durassier, M., on the French tor-
pedo flotilla, 327

Elliott, Admiral, his testimony to
value of Naval Reserve, 58; on
stokers in the navy, 85
Emperor Nicolas I.' (Russian iron-
clad), 332

Engineers, reserve of, for sea-
going cruisers, 30

England, birthplace in, of men and
boys serving in the navy in 1852,
37; towns in 1852 contributing
more than fifty men and boys
to navy, 38; towns or their
neighbourhoods in which boys
in training ships (1871) were
born and entered, 40, 41; coun-
ties in which they were born,
42; fishing-boats and men and
boys registered in, in 1869, 44–
48

Essex fishermen as yachtsmen, 77
Evolutionary squadron, cruise of
the, in 1885, 299 et seq.; be-
haviour of torpedo boats in
cruise round west coast of
Ireland, 305; deficiency of
cruisers in length, 307; as a
display of naval forces, 311;
employment of officers of the
Naval Reserve in, 313
'Excellent,' plan for training Naval
Reserve officers on, 21; school
of gunnery, 72, 113, 290, 304;
enthusiastic ovation given to
crew in London, 156; for
R.N.A.V. training in gunnery,
204

Expenditure of principal mari-
time powers on navy, 6

FAMOGUSTA, Cyprus, as a coaling-
station, 247; unhealthiness,
258
Ferry-boats, capability of, to carry
guns, 232

Firemen, reserve of, for sea-going
cruisers, 30

Fisheries, increase in the, bene-
ficial for the Naval Reserve,
146

Fishermen, English, advisability

of increasing the number of
gunboats for training, 112; for
coast defence, 22-24; naval
authorities in favour of enrol-
ment in reserve, 36; value of,
as Coast Volunteers, 76; in gun-
boats, 77; unwise rejection for
reserves, 78; aptitude, 79; agri-
cultural labourers employed as,
in Norfolk and Suffolk, 79; their
leisure for drill, 79

Fishermen, French, for coast de-
fence, 22

Fishermen, Irish, for coast de-
fence, 22

Fishermen, Scottish, for coast de-
fence, 22; physical superiority,
22, 23; suitability, as Coast Vo-
lunteers, 76

Fishing, ordinary mode of, in the

United Kingdom, 44–51
Fishing-boats registered in the

United Kingdom, Isle of Man,
and Channel Islands, 44-51
Fitzroy, Admiral, in naval ma-
nœuvres, 320

Flying squadrons, advantage of,

293

Foam,' the, 170

Forth, the, torpedo boats for, 304
Fortifications, a cheap method of
defence, 263

France, seafaring population and
tonnage of, 3; annual expendi-
ture on navy, 6; naval and mer-
cantile tonnage, 6; conditions
of the Invalides' pension, 15;
men employed in fisheries, 21;
numbers of reserve recom-
mended by Commission of 1843,
22; fleet at Napoleon I.'s dis-
posal, 54; tonnage in 1871,
54; maritime conscription, 55;
Naval Reserve, 106; steam ton-
nage, 226; command of seafar-
ing population in an emergency,
235; merchant tonnage, 239;
subsidies for mail services, 239;

total foreign trade, 239; boun-
ties for construction of ships and
mileage subsidies, 239; increase
of lines of steamers under State
subventions, 240; age of entry
in navy, 286; years spent by
officers in training at sea, 294;
torpedo vessels, 303, 334; dis-
tribution of armour in ironclads,
310; discrepancy in statements
of authorities on numbers of
torpedo boats, 327, 328; recep-
tion of the Russian fleet at Tou-
lon, 331, 332; Mediterranean
squadron, 332; Channel squad-
ron, 333; aggregate strength of
ships in European waters, 334;
ships on Australian, China, and
East India stations, 334; first,
second, and third class warships,
335,336; coast-defence ironclads,
337; armoured cruisers, 337;
protected cruisers, 337; aggregate
tonnage of mercantile marine,337
Freeboard, low, disadvantages of,
309, 320

French army, excessive number of
corps d'élite in, 118

French mercantile marine, En-
quête Parlementaire on, 70
Frobisher, at the defeat of the
Armada, 53

Fullerton, Captain, of Melbourne,
his active interest in colonial
naval reserves, 268

GALITA, Island of, necessity for a
light on, 276

Gardner, Captain, on the ineffi-

ciency of former naval crews,
55; testimony to value of Naval
Reserve, 58

Gaspe, Gulf of St. Lawrence, vo-
lunteers for Naval Reserve at, 220
German shipmasters, their su-
perior education, 135

Germanic,' quick run from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook, 232