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Index of
Merchant sailing ships, 1775-1815: sovereignty of sail

by
David R. MacGregor

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INDEX

Figures in italics refer to page numbers of
illustrations.

Abercrombie Robinson (1825) 184 185
Abergavenny (c1805), 166
Acts of Parliament, carriage of slaves
  19-20; Navigation Laws 17-18;
  Prevention of Smuggling Act 106:
  Registry Act l 18
Adams & Co, shipbuilder 115
Admiral Gardner  (1796) 183
Admirality, alters sloop to schooner 153;
  buys Americal vessels 50, 77-79, 94;
  draughts 50, 75, 77,80, 146; draughts
  copied by Hilhouse 206: interest in
  drop keels 170-71; likes collier barks
  32, 57; orders rigging changes 54, 57;
  plans of Earl of Pembroke 157;
  surveyors draw sail plan 157; takes off
  lines 11, 77-78, 156-57; see also
  National Maritime Museum, Royal
  Navy
Adventure,ex Raleigh, ex Marquis of
  Kockingham (1770) 59, 61, 98
Affiance(c1796), 132
Agnew, William, ship's husband 177
Albion (1787 ) 210
Albion (1818) 134-35
Alert (1802) 157
Alexander (1815) 132
Alice (c1804) 123
Alnwick Castle (1801) 109, 188, 210
Amazon (1811) 209
America, ship design 149-51
Amity (1775) 211
Anuty Hall (1789) 109, 211
Ann andElizabeth (1768) 58
Anson, HM 48-gun frigate 184
Anthorn (1803) 132
Antigua Packet (1815)120
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria
  (Chipman) 29 et seq, 83, 99, 104, 109,
  186
Ariadne (1799) 134, 209
Ariel (in 1798) 131
Ariel (1862) 120
Ariel(1865; 201
Armament, Cupid in 1778 79; of East
  Indiamen 180-81, 195-96, 202, 206;
  of slavers 17, 72
Amiston (1794) 183
Assia (1780) 210
Atkinson, J A, artist 151, 153, 163
Atas (1777) 210
Aurora (1784) 22


Balaou schooner 157
Bailles (17851211
Baker, Williann A, 16, 101, 125
Balfour (1809), crew and cost 147;
  described 121, 123; large brig 120
Ballast lighters (by 1770), sail plan 105,
  106
Ballast lighters (1799-1802) 211
Baltic trade 12, 14, 59, 131
Baltimore clippers 120, 156-57
Baltick (American) 91
Barbadoes (c1757) 94
Barbadoes Packet (1802) 132
Barges 106, 166; swim-header 106, 118
Bark, begins to refer to rig," 51, 61, hull-
  form 29, 31-32; lines plan by
  Chapman 3l-32
Barnard & Co., sbipbuilder 177, 185.
  187, 192
Barque, early examples 32, 51, 51, 121;
  five masts 14; Mediterranean 32. 51
Barquentine 1.58, 160
Barquetta 57
Barrick Henry, 59
Barry, Francis, shipbuilder 127
Barry, John, shipbuilder 59, 127-28,
  146
Barry, Robert, shipbuilder 59, 127
Baugean, Jean, artist 136, 138, 163
Bayley,Jabez, shipbuilder 174
Beams-to-length ratio, in pink 34; in
  schooners 1I8; in  Smuggling Acts
  106, 139
Beaver Prize, ex Oliver Cromwell
  (cl774-78) 50
Beckford (1774) 87
Bedford '1750) 76
Bedwell J. shipowner 123
Bee (1830) 142
Bell, Henry, shipbuilder 16
Bengal (1811) 210
Bengal (1814) 135, 135, 209
Bentham Samuel 171
Bergh, Christian 149
Bermuda (1804) 127
Bermudian sloops 107
Bethia (1784) 51
Betsey (1782) 211
Betsy (cl809) 131
Bilander, described 87-88, 91; Dutch
  87-88; examples 87; lines plan 88, 91;
  listed 1781 81;painted by Swaine 88;
  sail plans 86, 88, 91; spar dinnensions
  91
Billander, see Bilander
Bird, Henry, shipbuildcr 88
Blackwall Yard, builds collier 141;
  builds East Indiamen 109, 174, 188,
  194-95; costs of building 75, 77, 132,
  210-11; its history 75, 185; mast
  house 184; names of ships built 75, 77,
  109,210-I1
Blakeney 57
Boddam (1787) 190-91
Bomb ketch 102
Bonetta (cl754) 34, 66
Bonetta, HMS (1836) 136
Bonington, R P artist, 166
Bootchips (Dutch) 34; compared with
  hagboat 41; hull-form in whaler 77
Bouguer, author 68
Boulton, Matthew, engineer 15
Boulton & Watt, 15-I6
Bountiful (c1782) 75
Bounty, HM ship, ex Bethia (1784), masts
  51, 64
Braithwaite (1784) 211
Breeze (1805) 142, 145
Bridges, cast iron 733
Bndgewater (1785) 188, 191
Brig, by A Hall & Sons 138;
Brocklebank's compared 121, 123;
  collier of 170 tons 139-41, 145;
  contrasted with mow 83, 85, 136,
  138; largcsi 121: name derivation 81,
  83: sail plan by, Chapman 83
Brig-forward; (schooner)  138
Brig-schooner 136, 138
Brigantine, contrasted with brig 81, 83,
  85, 138, contrasted with schooner 8l,
  91,136; developments in l8th century
  81, 83, 85; examples 1800-15
  136-38: 'true' 138
Brillant (1800), 209; hull-form 134; lines
  135: model of 134
Brilliant (1813) 128
Brilliant (1814) 135
Bristol,  builds West Indiamen 69-70;
  shipbuilding statistics 13-14
Britannia (c1781) 75
Britannia (1806) 2l0
Brockbank, John, shipbuilder 132, 157
Brocklebank, Daniel, shipbuilder
  119-20,123-24
Brocklebank & Co, shipbuilders, costs
  132; first barque 121: first schooner
  157; plans collection 120, 1.57;
  shallops 124-26; ships listed and
  compared 119-23
Brodrick, Thomas, shipbuilder, 59, 131
Brunswick (1792) 210
Buckhinghamshire (1806) 186
Buffalo, HMS, ex Freemantle (1790).
  described 75; lines plan 74
Bureau, Captain 7,5
Burn, Thomas 132
Busbridge (1781) 210
Buss, herring 166


Cabalva (1811 j 210
Cabhouse 35
Cäesar (1810) 211
Calcutta, tiMS 153
Caledonian (c1818) 133
Camboose 35
Cambria (brig) 203
Camillieri, N,  artist, 119
Canal boats 16
Candia, (c1789 Dutch), 194
Canning (1817) 210
Capstands (capstans) 183
Carrier (1796), 123
Carnatic (1787) 189
Carnatic (1808) 210
Carswell John 134: see also Steele &
  Carswell
Casey, Joseph, owner 85
Cat, Admiralty version 59, 61;
  described 36, 39-40; engraved by
  Steel 54; hove-to 40; hull-form 29, 36,
  39-4(h lines plan 37; model 39, 40;
  perspectives of hull, 37, 39; pole
  masts 51, 53, 54; stern described 34,
  39, 39, 61; with 2 masts 91
Cat-bark 61
Cat-built 58, 61
Catharina Maria (1810 Rostock), 160
Catherine (1818) 211
Cato (1801) 209
Caulkers 14
Centaur, HMS 183
Centreboands 170-71
Ceres (1779) 210
Ceres (1786) 210
Ceres (1796) 183
Ceres (1799), compared with Whitby
  brig, 147; described 123
Cervantes (1811) 209
Chaleur (American) 94
Chalke 101 105, 106
Chapelle,  Howard I, author and naval
  architect 7; draws plans of shallops
  126; lines of brigantine 151; on single-
  masted craft 101; reconstructs 
  American ships 78, 149, 151;
  Reconstructs schooners 94, 156-57
Chapman, Frederick, of ballast lighter
  105; bark's hull 29, 31-32, 31, 32, 87,
  95, 100,101: bihander's hull 88
  bilander's sail plan 86, 87; brig's sail
  plan 83, 83, 91; brigantine's sail plan
  91; cat's hull 29, 36, 37, 39, 39,.51, 87;
  collects plans 88, 93, 99, 145; East
  Indiaman's hull 186, 187, 188;
  differencs between brig and snow
  83; flute's hull 29, 32, 32, 34; frigate's
  hull 28, 29, 30, 31, 96; hagboat's hull,
  41, 41, 42; hoy's, hull 43, 43,101: hull
  form  analyzed 29 et seq; ketch-rigged
  sail plans 101, 102, 160; lists qualities
  in a ship 64-65; pink's hull 29, 34.34,
  101; plans, collection 35, 99, 106;
  plans copied 109; sail plans to scale
  44; schooner's sail plan 95, 96; ship's
  sail plan 44, 68; single-masted craft
  sail plan 103-04, 105, 106; smack's
  hull 43; snow's sail plan 82; timber
  hoys compared with Brocklebank
  sloop 123; well k translated by Inman
  68
Chapman (1777) 59
Charlene Dvndas, early steamer 16
Charnock Collection 186-87
Chat, see Cat
Chebacco, boats, 107; dogbody 125;
Chebec, lines and sail plan 53
Cherokee, ex Codrington (1773) 50;
  described 78
Chester, shipbuilding statistics 13
chesterfield (1780) 210
China trade, monopoly ended 184, 185,
  201; restricted to Indiamen 173-74
Chronicles of the Blackwell Yard 187
Cirencester (1794) 185
Clara (1796) 119
Clarke, W 126
Clarimont (1744) 211
Cleopatra  (1817) 126, 128
Clarmont(1807). early steamer 16
Clevrly,john, artist 172
Clinton (c1780) 75
Clio (1800) 209
Clio (1813 or 1816) compared 128, 131;
  hull-form 146, 169; lines plan 169;
  sail plan 169, 169: spar dimensions
  169
Clyde (1797) 209
Clyde (1813) 135, 209
Coal trade 133
Codrington (1773 American) described
  78; sails and spars 50, 75, 78
Collier Brig (Steel's), desk layout 140.
  141; hull-form 139, 14.5; lines plan
  141; perspective 140,141; sail plan
  41,144,14.5-46
Colliers 139-46; barks, 31-32, 51, 139;
  rats 39, 139; drawings by Gwyn 51,
  64; exploration ships 51, 58, 61, 64;
  loading 59
Colour,scheme, 149
Comet, early steamer 16
Congress (1818) 146
Constable, Mr 169, 169
Constance (1792) 75, 211
Construction, collier brig c805,
  139-40; conversion of timber 26:
  plank thickness 182-83; stern 30-31.
  34; see also trial, East Indiamen,
  Snodgrass
Convicts 117
Cook, Lt,James, explorer 98; favours
  colliers 14, 59; promoted 61
Choke. E W artist 77, 142, 145
Cooke, W B, engraver77
Copper sheathing 179
Coromandel (1820), compared with
  model, 204; crew 206; described 75,
  205; lines plan 204; hull-iimt
  205-6: log extracts 206; passages 206
Costs, Artic Whalers 22; Balfour (1809)
  147; Blackwell Yard 75, 77, 210-11;
  building brigs 92, 141; building in
  America 149-51; building
  1796-1815 132; building in 1806 117;
  building East Indiamen 174;
  building whalers 22; building at
  Whitby 59; chartering 'extra' ship
  206; Earl of Pembroke 58; hiring
  transports 21-22; purchase price of
  ship 79; sale prices of big East
  Indiamem, 186, 195; schooner Plough
  153; tendering East Indiamen 25-26;
  Three-mast schooner in 1807, 157-8;
  whalers 135; whaling subsidies 21
Coverdale (1795) 131
Coults (1796) 183
Crescent (1816) 209
Cropper. Benson & Co, owners 135,
  209
Crown, James, shipbuilder 132
Crew , East Indiamen 173, 196; large
  brig in 1809 147; large in East
  Indiamen 202, 206; listed in
  Farquharson, 202-03; reduced
  numbers 14; small Indiamen 206;
  snow c1870 147; slaver 72
Crowley (1789) 75, 141, 211
Crown (1821) 121
Cruickshank, Capt W, 202
Cryer (rig in 1781) 81
Culland's Grove (1801) 131
Culloden, HM74-gun ship 181
Cumberland (1800) hull-form 120-21,
  135; lines plan 119; shallop on deck
  124
Cupid (1777) described 79-80;
  hull-form 79; lines plan 69, 69, 149;
  sail plan 80.80, spars listed 80; step of
  mizen 79, 114
Curlew (1794) 157
Cusnells (1795) 183
Cutter, bought by Admiralty 106; built
  by Brocklebank 123; Chapman's sail
  plan 103, 105; see also Sloop
Cynthia, HM sloop 170


Dandridge, Charles, draughtsman 196,
  198
Dandy 101
Daniell, William, artist 126
Danish Asiatic Company 184
Danish whalers 23, 77
Davis, Ralph, author 14
De Goede Hoop 20
do Wint, Peter, artist 16.3
Deck fittings, capstans 183; collier brig
  140; colour scheme 149; Fort of
  Pembroke 61; East Indiaman 198;
  Hillhouse vessel 117, 118; rough-tree
  rail 87; ship of 330 tons 110; whalers
  77
Deck layout. East Indiamen 187, 197;
  in perspective 66, 116, 141; naval
  storeships 75; ship of 330 tons 111
Defiance (l785) 155
Depth to length ratio 121, 134-35
Design, at end of I8th century 64 el seq;
 Hutchinson quoted 72; of East
  Indiamen 186-92: using arcs of
  circles 34, 146; writers on naval
  architecture 15, 64,66, 109, 146
Delaford (1787) 211
Diamond (1749) 211
Diana (1785) 57
Diana (1798) 209
Die Frau Marica (1802)  170, 170
Dingley,, Dr E A, 136
Dispatch, HM sloop, ex Navy Transport, ex  
  Zephyr 87
Dispatch (1803) 209
Dodd, Robert,  artist 10, 16, 65
Dogbody 125
Dogger 101
Dogger (Dutch), comparison 101;
  drawn by 0zanne 103; sail plan as
  ketch 102; stern 33
dolphin, HM brigantine, 136
Dolphin striker, Bark examples 44, 54,
  114, 189
Don (1814) 135
Doughty, William, naval architect 151
Drake, HM, sloop, ex Marquis of Granby
  (1769) 61
Drop keels 170-71
Dryad (1801) 123
du Monceau, Duhamel, naval writer,
  66
Duchess of Athol (1820) 210
Duchess of Manchester, ex Pleasant Mary
  (1757), deck layout 87; hull-form 87;
  lines plan 85; 149; rigs of brig and
  snow 83, 85; sail plan, 85; spar
  dimension, 83
Duck'ld Hall (1784) 211
Dudman & Co, shipbuilders 75, 185
Duke of 5ussex (1826) 185
Duke of York (1811) 133
Duke of York (1817) 210
Dundas (1786) 210
Dundas, Lord 16
Dundas, Rt Hon Henry, 182
Dunira (1817; 210
Dutch, East Indiamen 42, 194;
  shipping 20-21; slavers 20; wlolets
  20, 22. 77;see also Bilander, Dogger,
  Flute, Galliot, Hooker, Hoy, Kof,
  Smack
Dutchess of Manchester see Duchess of
  Manchester


Earl Howe (1794) 183
Earl of Abergavenny (1796? 181, 183
Earl of Balcarras (or Balcarres) (1815)
  177, 181, 186
Earl of Egmont (1767-68) 94
Earl of Hertford (1780) 210
Earl of Lonsdale (1798) 123, 123
Earl of Pembroke (1764), cat-built 58, 61;
  dimensions 58; hull-form compared
  61; lines plan 58, 59; mizen lower
  mast 51, 63-64; original plans 59; sail
  plan 63, 63-64
Earl Spencer (1795) 210
East Talbot (1796) 183
East India Company (The
  Honorourable), carry troops 203, 203,
  206; charter Coromandel 206; convoys
  184; Court of Directors 23-26,
  174-75, 180, 182-83; extra ships 26,
  173, 192, 206; India-built ships 24;
  last ships to be built 187; monopolies
  ended 184, 187; not shipowners
  173-74; packet 138; regular ships 186;
  shipping statitics 24; size of crew
  203; tendering prices 25-26, 175;
  tonnage increases 173, 181, 187-92;
  see also East Indiamen
East India House 175
East Indiamen, animals on deck 204;
  armament 180-81, 196; building
  costs 174 et seq; Danish 192; cost of
  shares 26; design appraisal 23-24,
  188-92, 206; dutch 42, 194;
  examples built in Blackwall Yard
  109, 188, 210; extra ships 26, 204,
  206; compared with men-of-war 179,
  180-83; french 192, 195; hereditary
  bottoms 174; husbands 174, 179;
  improvements by Snodgras, 182-83;
  iron knees 183; largest ships listed
  181; last ships 185; life prolonged 179;
  mostly built in London 12;
  perspective of hull 31, 186; regular
  ships 26, 173, 206; rigging details
  202-02; set flying kites 200-01; sails
  and spars analyzed 199-200; sail
  planncompared with warship 188,
  200; sale of ships 186, 195; spar
  dimensions 199; scantlings 179-80;
  speeds 203-04, 206; Swedish
  influence 188; voyages increased
  23-24, 179; see also East India
  Company, Snodgrass
Edinburgh (1825) 184, 185, 210
Edson, MA jnr 78
Edward (1797) 147
Edye, John, naval writer 200
Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture
  (Steel) 109, 139, 188
Elements and Practice of Rigging and
  Steamship, see Rigging and Steamship
  (=abbreviated title)
Eliza (1813 sloop) 135, 209
Eliza (1815) 211
Elliott, Joseph, draughtsman 72
Elliott (1782) 210
Emelia (1782) 23
Emigrant ships 21
Encyclopedie Methodique
Endeavor, MS, ex Earl of Pembroke
  (1764), dimensions 58; first voyage
  57-58; mizen lower mast 51, 63-64;
  model 56; not a cat's stern 59, 61;
  plans 59; see also Earl of Pembroke
enterprise (c1804)
Esk (1781) 59
Essex (1780) 210
Essex (1803), possible plan 109, 188, 210
Essex (1812), vast sail area, 201, 201
Euler L, naval writer 15
Europa (1781) 210
Europe (1803) 109
Exeter (1776), compared with Earl of
  Pembroke 59; compared with a whaler
  77; hull-form 69-70; lines plan 69, 69,
  116
Experiment (c1800) American) 156
Experiment (1802) 123, 157
Experiment (early 5-mast barque) 14
Exploration ships 51


Falconer, William, comments on
  bilander 87; defines bark 23, 51;
  defines brig 83; defines cat 36, 39, 61
  defines flute 32, 34; describes shallops
  124; illustrates brigantine 81, 81;
  illustrates schooners 96; illustrates
  sterns 33, 39; refers to hagboats 41
Falmouth (1752), described 187
Fame (1795) 154, 154
Fame (1818) 22
Farquharson (1820), armament 196;
  compared with Coromandel 205; crew
  listed 206; deck layouts 196, 196,
  198-99; hull form 195; lines plan
  195, 196; log book extracts 199-203;
  picture discussed, 198, 198-99, 202;
  sail plan 198-201, 201, 202; sails
  listed 200; spar dimensions 200;
  speed 203-04; towed to sea 16;
  voyages 202-04
Farr, Grahame, on ketches 163-64
Fast Sailing Ships (MacGregor),
  Brocklebank ships 119; brigantine
  examples 138; describes Hilhouse 
  ships 116; describes Transit 158; field
  of study 7; influence of design 188;
  plan of Dolphin 136; sail plan of Neilson
  146; ships with flying kites 200-01
Favorite (1785) 141, 142
Favorite (1790) 59
Fawcett, Peat & Co, shipbuilders 132
Ferguson, Gilbert, surveyor 26
Fielding, Copley, artist 138, 145, 145
Figurehead cost 150
Filati, Egidio, artist 87
Finch, Roger, author 56, 103
Fincham, John, spar dimensions 153,
  153, plan of Transit 158, 160
Fishburn, Thomas, shipbuilder 58-59
Fishburn & Broderick, shipbuilders 59,
  131
Fisher, John, shipbuilder 72
Fitch, John, engineer 16
Flight (Dutch) 33, 34
Flute, compared with bark 84;
  illustrated 32, 33; hull-form 29, 32,
  32, 34; hull-form in whaler 77; its
  successors 91; lines plan 32; stern 20,
  33 
Fly, MH, cutter (in 1763), sail plan 99,
  103
Fly (in 1811 schooner) 155, 156
Fly-boat (or 'Flight') 32, 34, 39
Flying Fish, HM, schooner, ex Revenge
  (c1806) 157-58
Flying kites 49-50, 55, 200-01; see also
  Sails
Forester, CS, author 184
Forester, HM brigantine, 136
Forfait, P A L, naval writer 44
Fort William (1788) 211
Fortitude (1799 or 1814) 128
Fortuna (c1795) 51
Fortuna (c1805) 19
Fowlis (1782) 210
Francia, F L T, artist 77, 166, 166
Freemantle (c1790) 75
Freight rates, in East Indiamen 24-26
French, nautical words 94; slavers 20
  73-75; whalers 22
French East India Company 184
Freya (1805) 128
Friendship (1773) 211
Frigate (Chapman's) hull-form 29, 31
  41; lines plan 28; perspective 30
Frigate (naval) 179, 181
'Full-rigged ship without a foremast' 163
Fulton, Robert, engineer 16


Galleas, examples 101, 160, 163; square
  stern, 160; Swedish 101, 161; used in
  Baltic 102
Galliot, Dutch 3 masted 43; examples
  160, 161, 163, 166; hoy 165;
  ketch rigged, 157; round stern 33, 34, 
  43, 160; use of term in England, 163;
  see also Ketch
Ganges (1796) 181, 183
Garland (1801) 209
Garneray, artist 50
Genoese pink 137
George the Fourth (1825) 185
Gerner, Jenrik, shipbuilder 14, 75
Gibson, John, F, author 120
Glasgow, HM, 50-gun ship (1814) 181
Glasgow (1826) 154
Glatton (1795) 183
Glover, shipowner 75
Goodchild, shipbuilder 132
Gordon, Thomas, inventor 170
Gordon & Co, shipbuilder 195
Gower, Capt Richard 158, 160
Grace (1812) 209
Granby (in 1767) 189-90
Grant, Charles, chairman E I Co 186,
  192
Grasshopper, ex London (1770) described
  78; spars described 50, 79; spars listed
  80
Green, George, shipbuilder 185
Green, Richard, shilbuilder 185
Green & Wigram, shipbuilders 185
Griffon HM, brigantine 136
Groenewegen, G, draws Dutch small
  craft 103; draws Dutch snow 65;
  draws schooner 96; illustrator 34, 43;
  sails on mizen 51, 54; whaler 20
  sails on mizen 51, 54; whaler 20
Guilbert, naval architect 73, 73, 192,
  195
Guildford (1810) 211
Gustav III (1778 Swedish) designed by
  Chapman 188
Gustavus III (1778 Swedish); anglicized 
  name 188
Gwyn, Edward, draws brigantine 91;
  draws Coal Brig 40; draws collier
  barque 39, 51; draws royals 64;
  draws schooners 96, 98, 98


Hagboat, compared with cat 36, 39;
  hull-form 29, 36, 41; lines plan 41;
  perspective 42
Half-model, bracket type 59, 134; early
  example 61
Halifax (c1765) 94
Hall (1785), design 72; hull-form 72-73;
  lines plan and engraving 70, 73; sails
  described 49-50, 55, 56
Hall, A, and Sons, shipbuilders 135,
  138, 153
Hall Brothers, shipbuilders 132
Hamburg, whalers 23
Hampton, J N, modeller 56
Harland, John, author 50
Harmonien (1815) 149
Harmony (in 1880) 164
Harriott (1802) 109, 210
Hartley, John  & Sons, owners 120, 129
Hartwell (1786) 173
Havelock, Thomas, shipbuilder 132
Hawke (1786) 210
Hay, Capt W, 26
Heckboat, see Hagboat
Hedderwick, Peter, drop keels 171;
  Leith smack 139; rules for spar
  lengths 169; sail plan 154
Hekboot (Dutch) 28
Helena (1778), hull-form 96; lines plan
  96, 97; sail plan 97, 97-98, 99; spar
  dimensions 96
Henrietta (1777) 22
Henrietta (1779) 75
Henry Addington (1795) 183
Henry George (1784) 210
Herald(1804) 134, 209
Hereditary bottoms 174
Herefordshire (1813), described 206-07
Hermaphrodite 136, 138
Hermaphrodite brig 136, 138
Hermaphrodite schooner 138
Heward, Benjamin 132
Hilhouse, George, shipbuilder 115-16
Hilhousc, James M, builds shallops
  119, 124; collection of plans 69-70,
  115, 167, 206; perspective 116; plan
  of East Indiaman 206; plan of sloop
  167,169; plans analyzed 69-70;
  schooner plans 118-19; ships
  described 69-70, 115-19
Hilhouse. Robert, shipbuilder 116, 118
Hilhouse, Hill & Co, shipbuilders 115
Hill, Charles & Sons, shipbuilders 115
Hill, John C G 115
Hillman, John E I surveyor 177, 179
Hillsborough ;1774 East Indiaman) 210
Hillsborough (1774 packet, 74 tons) 211
Hillsborough (1783) 210
Hindostan (1796) 181, 183
Hindostan (in 1808), application to build
  174; armament 180; under
  construction 177
Histoire de la Marine (Sebille) 195
Historisch Scheepvaart Museum 43
Hiotory of Naval Arichitecture (Fincham)
  158,160
Hoffnung (1787) 54
Hoffnunge, ex Junge Janus (1780) 147,
  147
Holland, importance of flute 33; See also
  Dutch
Holman, Francis, artist 33, 111
Holmes, Joseph, jnr 149
Holsteen  (1782) 192
Honourable East India Company, see
  East India Company
Hooker, brig 43; fishing 101; ketch 101;
  three masts 43
Hope (1797) 181, 183
Hoy (Dutch), ketch 43, 101, 102, three
  masts 43, 43
Hoy (East India Compamy) 103, 104
Hoy (English) 103, 167; lines plan 101,
  103, 104: sail plan 104, 104, 105,105
Huggins, W'J, artist, East Indiarnen
  177, 202; ship with flying kites 201.
  201
Hukergaliot (Dutch) 160
Hull, shipbuilding statistics 13-14;
  whaling trade 22
Hull-form, American ships in 1775 78;
  bark 29, 31-32; Bermudian sloops
  107; Brocklebank brigs 121, 123; cat
  29, 36, 39, 61; cat and bark compared
  61; classifed by Chupman 29; collier
  brig in 1805 139; deep ships 121,
  134-35; designed by arcs of circles, 
  146; East Indiamen 23-24, 186-92,
  195; flute 29, 32, 34 frigate
  (Chapman's,) 29-31: haglxtat 29, 41;
  Hilhouse ships 69-7U, 116-17;
  north-country colliers 14; pink 29,
  34; sharper form 31, 80,96,149; ship
  of 330 tons 109-10; slavers 73-74;
  storeships taken into Navy 75; West
  Indiamen 69-70, 72,109; Whitby
  colliers 59, 61; Whitby ships 128
Husbands of East Indiamen 174,179
Hutchinson, William, drawings and
  plans of Hll 56,70,72-73; on setting
  sails 49-50, 54-55,200; on ship
  design 59, 72, 139
Hydra (1778) 70
Hiperion (1810) 128, 131, 146
    

India Office Library, log books 199
India trade 23, 173; monopoly ended
  184
Industry (cl 765) described 91 -92; lines
  plan 34,32
Inma Rev James 68
Inventory 150, 164
Iron, hanging knees 15, 34, 103,104,
  179,183; hold pillars 183; no iron
  knees c l790, 110; shipbuilding 15-16
Irton (1793) bluff-bowed 119; hull-form
  121, 123; lines 121; possible
  appearance 123
Isabella (1786 whaler) 76, 77
    
    
Jackass barque 56, 57
Jakob Keilland & Son (1799 Norwegian)
  119
Jamaica (1774) 211
Jamaica (1790) 70
Jane and Sarah (1795) 123
James Munroe (American) 151
Java (1811) 208
Jenny (cl791) 157
Jobbins,J R, artist 138,177,196
Johanna Magdttlma (of Hamburg) 77
John (1803) compared to Whitby brig
  147; deck layout 118; dimensions
  118-19; hull-form 118; lines plan 116
John Barry (1814) 59
Joly (French) described 73-74; lines
  plan 73
Jones, D K, 126
Jones, Stephanie 21
Junge Janus (1780 Hamburg), 147, 147
Jupiter (1793) 119-20
Justinian (1787) 211
    

Kivionneer boot (Dutch) 96
Kai (Dutch) 34,40; S89 also Cat
Kent (1819) 203,210
Ketch, Continental equivalents 101,
  102, 160, 163; early development 99,
  101 -04, 163-64; fore-and-aft 163;
  166, rig on hay 43; rig on pink 34; sail
  plans 102; square-rigged 158,163;
  three nationalities compared 101;
  variations described 99-103,160-66;
  see also Galleas, Galliot
  King George (1784) 25
  King George (1804) 120
Kitty (1784) 17
"Kof, Dutch ketch 164, 166, 166
Kray 53
 
   
La Sophie, see Sophie
Lady Burgess (1799) 109, 210
Lady Burgess (in 1808) armament 180;
  under construction 177
Lady Gordon (1817) 131
Lady Juliana (1769) 65
Lady Melville (1813) 174,210
Lady Raffles(1817) 205
Laing, David 132
Laing, John, shipbuilder 132-33
Laing, Philip, shipbuilder 132-33
Lancaster, shipbuilding statistics 13
Lancaster ex Pigot, HM 65-gun ship 181
Landovery (1774) 21.1
Langbourne, George and Nathaniel 59
Larkins, John P, ship's husband
  174-75,177
Launch, broadside 132; stem first 13
Leander (1799) 135, 209
Lee-boards 103,106,166,170-71
Leith smack 59
Lescallier, Antoine, defines Cat 39, 5 1,
  53, 61; defines Schooner 9&, describes
  Bark 27; describes Flute 34; his sail
  plans 44, 49; ignores Hagboats; 41;
  illustrates Bilander 87, 87
Lever, Darcy, book Published 114; on
  jackass barques'56, 57, 113; on royal
  yards 44; on setting stunsails 50;
  rigging details 145; use of main
  staysail 146
Liberty and Preperty (1752) half-model
  59; hull-form 61; rigged model 61
Liverpool, shipbuilding statistics
  13-14; slave trade 20-21
Lloyd's Register 12; rigs recognized 1781
     81
L'Olympe (French slaver) sail plan 73,74
London (cl750) 187
London (1770 American) hull-form 78;
  spars described 50, 75; see also
  Grasshopper
London (1779) 210
London (1817) 201
London, shipbuilding statistics 12-14
Lanning, T E, artist 192
Lord Duncan (1798) 132,210
Lord Lowther (1825) 185 v,
Lord Macartnisy (cl791) 184
Lowther Castle (1811) 181, 204
Lubbock, Basil, author 201
Lucy (1806) described 149-50;
  inventory 150
Luny, Thomas, artist, draws gaff
  topsail 98; draws ketches 163,166;
  draws shallops 126; paints Indianian
  25,191; paints merchant ships 63,78;
  sketches brigantine 91
Lute stem 34, 104
Lyman, John 87,103
Lyon, David 88,99,106
 
   
Macartney (1782) 210
Machine tools 15
Mackerel (1790) 123
Maitland (1865) 201
'Maphrodite' 81; see also
  Hermaphrodite
Main-topsail brigantine 136,153
Main-topsail schooner 153, 157
Marchioness of Ely 210
Marine Models 198
Manner (1805) 134-35,209
Marlborough (in 1730),174
Maria (1808) 209
Marquis of Ely (1801) 109,188,210
Marquis of Granby (1769) 61
Marquis ofRockingbam (1770) 59, 61
Marquis of Worcester (cl790) 70
Mary (1803) 209
Mary Ann (1794) 123
Maryport, ship launch 132
Mast see Spars
Masting of Ships (Fincham), 138,153,
     153
Matilda (1829) 138
Mechanical advances 15-16
Mediator (c 1 745 Bermudian), 107
Medina (1811) 135
Meeremin (Dutch) 42,43
Medora (c 1811) 35
Merchant Ship of 330-tons, deck layout
  109-10, 111; frame expansion 111;
  hull-form 109; lines plan 109, 110;
  reconstruction of sail plan 110, 113,
  114; spar dimensions 80,113
Mercurius (Dutch) 54
Micklefield, Capt, 174
Milford (1804) 127
Millett, George, appraises design of
  East Indiamen 188-92,206;
  appraises design of extra ships 206;
  compares regular and extra ships 26,
  206
Milner, Thomas, shipowner 58
Minerva (in 1759) 63
Minerva (1785) 2 10
Minerva (1812) 175
Misticque (cl750-86) lines, deck and sail
  plans, 53
Moina (1779) 209
Molly (17 59) 21
Money, Rev William, 183,204
Montgomery (1799) 121
Moore, Sir Alan, 103,160
Morris, E P, author, 94, 101
Moses, Henry, artist 138, 207
Munro, G W, 198
Murray, Mungo, author 66; compares
  bilander with snow 87; design
  methods, 146; offsets of Indiamen
  187; offsets of merchantmen, 87; plan
  of pink, 34
Museum fur Hamburgische
  Geschichte 147,147
    
    
Nance, R Morton, author 101, 103,160
Nantucket, whalers 22-23 
National Maritime Museum 
  (Greenwich), collection of 
  Admiralty draughts 11, 75, 77, 87;
  model of cat, 39; plans of captured
  merchant ships, 11, 77-78; plans of 
  Earl of Pembroke, 59 
Naval Schooner for Port Jackson 
  (1802-3), altered from sloop, 151
  design 146,153; lines and sail plan 
  153,153-54; spar dimensions 153-54 
Navigation Laws 17-18,24 
Navy Board 21, 58, 61
Navy Office School of Naval 
      Architecture 146 
Navy Transport, ex Zephyr (1799) 87
Neilson (1824) sail plan 146 
Nelson (1806) cross section 114,117; cost 
  117 
Neptune (in 1767) 1&2 
Neptune(1796)181,183 
Neried (1808) 209 
New Amelia (1767) 78 
New Triton (1814) 123 
Newcastle, shipbuilding statistics, 13 
Norfolk whalers 57
North Rim (1807, early steamer) 16
Norval (1814) 209 
Norwegian cats 36, 39
Nottingham (1786) 173, 188
    
    
Oliver Cromwell (cl778), spars and
  rigging 50,212 (Ref 28 in Chapter 2)
Orient (1810) described 146-47; listed
  128
Orwell (1817) 174
Oscar (1815) 209
Oxford (cl778) 210
Ozanne N M, artist 91
Ozanne, Pierre, etches small brig 81,
  107
    
    
Padstow lighters, 127
Paris, Admiral E, plans of galliot 43;
  Rees'Indiaman plan 188; sail plan of
  slaver 73, 75
Parker Gallery Ltd, 198
Parkinson, C Northcote, author 188
Parr (1797) 70
Partington, C F 166
Patache 90
Pearle (1751) 211
Peggy (1791) described 98; 125-26 drop
  keels 171
Penelope (1796) 132
Perseverance (1788) 119
Perry,John & Co, shipbuilders 184,185
Perry, Sons & Green, shipbuilders 183
Perry, Wells & Green, shipbuilders
  185,201
Petrejus, E W, cited 53
Photographs, early 175
Pigot (1796) 181, 210
Pilgrim (1779) 70
Pilgrim (1787) 69-70
Pilot boat (American) 125
Pink, compared with cat, 36, 39;
  hull-form 29, 30, 34
Pink stem, on brig 91; on cat 39-40; on
  chebacco boat 107, 125; on boy 103,
  104, on merchant vessels 34; on
  schooner 101; on ship 35,36; used less
  91
Pinky 107
Pitcher, shipbuilder 185, 192
Pleasant May (1757 American) 80,85,
  85
Plough (1811) described, 153-54; sail
  plan 135,153,154
Plymouth (1741) 92
Pocock, Nicholas, draws dolphin
  striker 114; draws kctch 164; draws
  trow 163
Polacca 91, 136; me also Polacre
Polacre 51, 53
Pole masts, 53, 53
PortJackson, schooner built for 118,
  146,153
Post Office packet, 116
Postlethwaite (1797) 132
Press gang 117
Prince Regent (1811) 210
Princess of Wales (1807) 209
Princess Royal (1769) 172
Princess Royal (1786) 191
Privateers 31, 80, 96
Prizes, statistics 12
Profits, from shipping 26; from slave
  trade 19
Prosperity (c 1782) 7 5
Pusey Hall (1808) 132
    
    
Quayle, George 171
Queen (in 1767) 189
    
    
Raleigh HM, ship, ex Marquis of
Rockingham (1770), 59, 61, 63-64
Randall & Co, shipbuilder 185
Raymond (1782) 210
Rebecca (1816) 134
Rees, Abraham, encyclopedia 188,
  189,198
Registry, early Acts 17-18
Reliance (1827) 185
Report on the Admeasurement of Shipping for
  Tonnage (Steele) 135
Repulse (1819) 210
Resolute (cI805 American) 149
Resolution HM ship, ex Drake, ex Marquis
  of Granby (1770) 61, 64, 98
Resolution (1803) 22
Retreat (1801) 26
Revenge (cI806 American) 157
Rice, William M, naval architect 146
Richardson, Thomas 76
Rigging and Seamanship (Steel), 44, 47,
  49,138,146
Rigging, at end of 18th century, 44-57; 
  on collier brig, 145-0; on East 
  Indianian, 202; ship of 330 tons, 114
Robertson, John 16
Rogers,J, artist 158
Romme, N C, author 44
Rose (1810) 210
Rotch, William, whaler 22
Round-sterned ships 29-31, 39-40,43,
  91, 160
Roux, Antoine, artist 53
Royal Admiral (cl776) 190
Royal Charlotte (1796) 181, 183
Royal George (1802) 109,188,210
Royal George (1819) 210
Royal Navy, acquires American vessels 
  50, 77-78, 94, 156-57; hires 
  transports 1775-83,21,75,78; makes 
  plans of captured ships, 11, 78; see also 
  Admiralty
Royal Society 57
Ruby (1749) 211
Rudd, Henry 132
Rudder, round-headed 110, 182-83,
  188; jury 182
Rumsey, James, engineer 16
Running ships 177
    
   
Sail plans, alterations c1800 114;
  American ships in l8th century 
  78-80; brig and snow compared 83,
  85; Chapman's recommendations 
  68; collier brigs 141, 145-46; 
  confusion over brigantines 136;   
  drawn in l8th century 44; East 
  Indiamen 198-202; French slaver 
  74-75; merchant ship c1805 114;
  published by Steel 44, 47, 49
Sails, 'angel's footstool' 201; bilander's
  mainsail 87, 91; deep topgallants 74, 
  78; deeply-roached topsails 96,98, 
  99, 101, 170; driver 54-55, 55, 78;
  flying kites 49-50, 201, 201, 206; gaff 
  topsails 57, 98; large gaff mainsail in 
  ships and barques 56, 57, 121; lateen 
  on ensign staff 67,87; main staysail 
  146; mizen or mizen course 53-54; 
  74, 75; mizen stunsails 200, 206;
  moonsails 200-01, 201; mizen mast 
  in l8th century 44, 50-51, 53-54,67; 
  on sloop 169; royals in 18th century 
  50 setting of stunsails 50; spindle 
  staysails 55, 200, 206; spanker 
  evolves 54,55, spritsait 55; spritsail 
  topsail 55;.'star gazer'201; stunsails
  in East Indiamen 199-201, 201, 206; 
  topgallant royal 44,55 114; unusual 
  staysails 191
St Ann (1736) 92
St Helena (1814) 138,210
St Vincent (1797) 109, 211
St Vincent (1804)114,117
Saint John woodboat 125
Salisbury, W, draws out Mungo
Murray's offsets 34, 88, 187; on
  bilanders 87-88, plan of East
  Indianian 187; plan of Two Sisters 63;
  takes off lines 61
Salmon, Robert, artist 4, 131, 135
Sappho (1821) 116
Sawyers working 27
Scaife, Capt 132
Scaleby Castle (1798) 186
Schank, Capt 170-71
Schooner, American in 18th century
  92, 94; Brocklebank's first l23;
  'common' 153; contrasted with
  brigantine 91, 136,138; conversion
  into brig 157; early developments 92;
  examples with two masts 92-99,
  151-57; first in Navy 94; fore-and-aft
  92, 96, 98, 15 1; listed by Fincham
  138; name for brigantine 136,138; rig
  on shallops 124-25; square sails on
  each mast 97-98; three-masted
  157-58
Schooner for PortJackson, altered from
  sloop 153; design 153; frame
  elevation 153; hull-form and deck
  layout 153; plan of lines and sails 153,
  153-54
Schooner, brig 136
Scipio (1797) 121
Scoresby, Capt W, 22
See Lark, Hm, schooner, ex FO (in 1811),
  hull-form 156; fines plan 154, 156;
  sail plan 154,156
Seamanship, in cats and barks 49; in
  coal trade 139; in East Indiamen 199,
  203, 20&, in jackass barques 57;
  qualities needed 64-66; setting
  stunsails 50; under sail 49-50, 55
Seamanship (Harland) 50
Search for Speed and Sail (Chapelle) 127,
  149,151
Sebille, Albert, author 195
Shallop, built by Hilhouse 119;
  compared with dogbody 125; listed
  119,124; open-decked 127,166;
  rigged as schooner 98, 124, with 3
  masts 127
Shallop (Brocklebank's) 123;
  compared with schooners 118, 124;
  lescribed 124-26; lines plan and sail
  plan 125
Shamrock-class, HM, 3-mast schooners
  157
Shawfield (1812) 209
Shipbuilding statistics 12-14
Shipping and Craft (Cooke) 145
Shipping industry, profits 26
Ships, large in l8th century 75; size
  increasing 14
Shipwright's Vade Mecum (Steel) 109- 10,
  111, 146
Shipwrights listed 14
Shuldham, Molyneux 171
Sir Edward Hawke (1767-78) 94
Sir Geoffrey Webster (1799) 211
Sir Stephen Lushington (1795) 183
Sisters (1801) 134, 209
Skoot (rig in 1781) 81
Slave ships 19-20; British 17, 70, 71,
  72-73; French 19, 73, 73-75
Slave trade 19-21, 70; profits 19
Sliding keels 170-71
Sloop, by Brocklebank 123;
  Chapman's sail plan 103-04, 105;
  examples 99 et seq, 167- 70; hull
  similar to square-rigger 167,169;
  popular rig for coasters 151;
  preferred to schooner 151, 157;
Steel's plan described 167; with
  square sails 170; see also Cutter
Sloop & Shallops (Baker) 125
Smack 92; of Leith 59
Smack (Dutch), engraving 101;
  hull-form 43; lines plan 43
Smales, H W, collector 127
Smith, Nathaniel 188
Smuggling, Act 106,139; shallop
  proscribed 124
Snodgrass, Gabriel, career 181-82;
  design of Indiamen improved 23-24;
  evidence to committee 23-24;
  improvements.specified 181-83; on
  capstands 183; on iron knees 103,
  183; letter to Dundas quoted 182-83;
  recommendations on construction
  23-249 179; warship and Indiaman
  compared 179,188
Snow, contrasted with brig 83, 85; rig
  described 81, 83; sail plan by
  Chapman 82; termed brig after 1815
  138
Sophie (French East Indiaman) 195
Southampton (1777) 210
Souvenirs de Marine (Paris) 42,53,73, 74,
  188
Sovereign (1801) 195
Spar dimensions, rules for calculating
  110, 145, 169
Spars, bentinck boom 147, 151;
  bowsprits 54; crossjack yard on
  bilander 87-88,91; crossjack yard on
  brig 138; crossjack yard on schooner
  98, 153; crossjack yard on East
  Indiaman 199-200; fidded royal
  masts 135-36,199; French
  terminology 82; main yard 88,91;
  mast lengths compared 64,80; mizen
  mast on snow 138; mizen stepped on
  lower deck 79-80,114, 199; mizen
  topgallant mast in l8th century
  50-51; mizen yard 53-54, 74, 75;
  Navy shortens ex-colliers 61; sliding
  gunter masts 199; spread yard 85,97,
  154; stepping masts 23; topsail yards
  below mast cap 154,154, 156,160,
  170; trysail topmast 147; "if mast
  85, 138; see also Pole masts
Speaker (1762) 190
Spinster (1804) 134, 209
Square tuck stem 29-31
Stalkartt, Marmaduke 109
Stammers, Michael 120
Statistics, British shipping 12,21;
  shipbuilding 1790 and 1804 12-13;
  shipwrights 14; size of crew 141; size
  of ships 14; slaves and slavers 20;
  whaling in 1788 22
Steam engines 15-16
Steel, David, author of Rigging and
  Seamanship 44,114; defines schooner
  98; design methods 146, engraving of
  cat 54; engraving of bilander 87; no
  plan of British schooner 156; plan of
  collier 139,141,145; plan of East
  Indiaman 181; plans of hoy and sloop
  167; plans of merchantmen listed
  109; plans of sails and rigging 44-49,
  spar dimemions listed 113,199
Steele, James 134, 209
Steele, Robert, & CD, shipbuilders
  134-35
Steele & Carswell, shipbuilders
  134-35; list of ships built 209
Stephenson, George, engineer 15
Stevens, John, author 34
Steward, Capt Gabriel 182
Sucess (cl80l) 157
Sultana (1767) 92
Sunderland, cast iron bridge 133;
  names of shipbuilders 132-33;
  shipbuilding statistics 13-14, 133
Sutherland, William, naval writer 146
Swaine, Francis, artist 64,88
Swan(1800) 209
Swedish East India Company 184
Swedish East Indiamen 188
Swift (cl787-88) 211
Symington, William, engineer 16
Symonds, Sir William, designer 136
Szymanski, Hans, author 154,160
    
 
Talbot (1778) 2 10
Talbot (1796) 210
Tartaric, 113,163
Tea, cargo of Indiaman 173
Teast, Sydenham, shipbuilder 157
Tellidierry (1795) 183
Tenby harbour 12
Thames (1794 West Indiaman) 211
Thames (1795-96 East Indianian) 183,
  210
Themis (1792) 132
Thenis (1806 Bremen) 160
Thetis (1811) 128
Thomas (1800) sail plan 145
Thomas and Stephen (cl815), 167
Three Sisters (1788), cost 211;
  dimensions 109; similarity to ship of
  330 tons 77, 109, 111, 16
Thyme (1773)211
Timber trade 59
Tjalk (Dutch) 103,105,118
Tobin, G, artist 95
Tonnage, measurement before 1836,
  139, 192; depth riot measured 192,
  158
Trader (1815) 209
Transit (1800), design 158; early
  barquentinc 158,160; sail plans 158,
  158; lines plan 160
Transit (I 8D9) 160
Transit (1819) 160
Transport& 19,21-22, 75
Travers (18DO) 195
Treatise on Shipbuilding (Murray) 34,66,
  187; see also Mungo Murray
Trevithick, Richard, engineer 15
Trial, HM, cutter (1791) 170
Triangular route 19
Trim (1799) 209
Trinidad (1810) 209
Trow, as ketch 163; one and two masts
  163
True brigantine 138
True Briton (1790) 191
Turner, J M W, artist 15
Turners (1786) 211
Two Sisters (1783) 63


Union (1764) 59 .
United KingAm (1801) 210
    
 
Valentine(el768)58
Vanguard, HM, 74-gun ship (1787) 181
Virginia pilot boat 126
Vittoria (1813) 209
    223
Volunteer (1756) 40
Volunteer (1803) 120


Walker (1799) 75, 109, 211
WalmerCastle (1796) 181, 183
Walpole (1798) 109, 210
Walthamstow (1799) log book extracts
  183-84, 204-05
Ward, T William, draws bow, 108;
  draws animals aboard Indianian
  204; draws collier brig 140, 141, 146
Ward, William, shipowner 72
Warley (1788) 210
Warley (1796) 181, 183, 210
Warners (1772) 211
Warren Hastings (1808) application to
  build 174; cost 210; of good quality
  194; under construction 175, 177
  Wars, American Independence 12,
  21-22, 25, 75, 78, 80, 107; French
  Revolution 22-23; Napoleonic 131,
  174, 204; Naval 1812, 80, 127; Seven
  Years 34
Warships, compared with East
  Indiamen 24,179; 181-83, 188, 195;
  construction 24, 182-83
Watt, James, engineer 10
Waterloo (1816) 210
Weatherill, Richard, cited 44
Webster, George, artist 90
Wellington (1814) 209
Wells, John, shipbuilder 185
Wells, John & William, shipbuilders,
  185, 192; plan of Indiaman 187;
Wells, Perry & Green 175, 177
Wells, William, shipbuilders 185
West Indies trade 19-20, 69-70, 117;
  convoy sighted 183; shallops used
  118-19, 124-25;three-masted
  schooners, 157
West Indiamen, compared with
  American privateers 80; Danish 74,
  75; plans of 69-70, 70, 72-73, 109,
  117; prices 75, 77, 211
Whalers, Dutch 22, 77; costs 22, 75;
  flute hull 32; for sale 131; from
  Hamburg 77,151, 151; hull-form in
  18th century 77;rigged as jackass
  barques 57
Whaling trade 22-23;
Whitby, cats 40, 61; colliers 31; ship
  types 12, 59; shipbuilding 18th
  century 13-14, 59;shipbuilding
  1800-15, 13, 127, 131; shipowning
  12;transport service 21-22
Whitcombe,Thomas, artist 113, 114,
  196,198, 198-99
Whitehaven, shipbuilding statistics,
  13, 132
Wight (1787) 92
Wigram, Henry Loftus, 185
Wigram, John 26
Wigram, Money, shipbuilder 185
Wigram, Sir Robert, shipowner, 26,
  183, 185, 210
Wigram, Wells & Green, shipbuilders
  185
Wigrams & Green, shipbuilders 185
William Miles (1808), compared with
  Exeter 69, 116; compared with
  Aamaica 70; hull-form 116-17; lines
  plan 114; in trade 117
William Miles (1816)115, 117
William Pitt (1785) 210
Williams, Robert, ship's husband 174,
  177, 180
Willoughby (1799) 211
Willoughby, Robert, artist 21, 149
Winterton (1781)
Wisbech, snow at quay 136
Wood, John & Co, shipbuilders 16
Wood, Thomas, shipbuilder 132
Woodboat125
Woodford (1790) 210
Worcester (1785) 210
Worsfield, Capt T 59
Wyndham (1800) 109, 210


Yards, see Spars
Yarmouth Brig 91, 147
York (1772)187
Youle, George 35
Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor (Lever)
	56, 114, 145


Zephyr, HM, 14-gun sloop (1779) 87
Zephyr (c1783) 87
Ziba (1858) 199

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