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Index of Merchant Sailing Ships, 1815-1850: supremacy of sail

by
David R. MacGregor

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INDEX

Aaron Manby 147
Abell, Sir Westcott 154
Aberdeen bow 155
Aberdeen Iron Works 154
Aboyne, Earl of 44
HMS Acheron 94
Ackers, G H 141
Active 65
Adam, Alexander 72
Adams, B & E 37
Adams, Balthazar 35-37
Adams, Edward 35-37, 39, 49, 105
Adams, Henry 35-37, 49, 105
Adamson, Thomas 100
Admiral Hood 154
Admiral Moorsom 108-109
Aden 102
Adonis 154
Adventure 45
Advice 84
Agincourt 174
PS Aire 41
Ajax 35
Albinus, F, artist 58
Albion, specification 23, 45-46
Albion, Robert 166
Alert (1802) 59
Alert (1817) 65
Alexander Hall 96
Alexander Robertson 37, 39
Alinock,Joseph 134-35
Alvin Clark, sail plan 126-27, 139
Amazon (1811) 22-23
Amazon (in 1836) 54
Amazon (1850) 100
Anderson, Garrow & Co 148
Anderson, William, artist 74
Andrew Marvel 26
Angerona 145
Ann Miln 100
Ann Smith 94
Anne 99
Annesley (1817) 41
Annesley (1819) 41
Annesley, Earl of41
Annesley, William 41
Annsbro', described 155; plan 155
Antarctic 168
SS Antelope 152-53
Arab (1827) 37


Baffin, construction 81, 83; costs 81,
  182; hull form 25, 83; plans found
  80, 83; sail plan described 26, 83;
  staysails 27-28, 83
Baldwin, W H  111
Ballingall, J  11
Baltimore clipper 142
Barge, `sloop-rigged' 68; spritsail 68;
  types described 68, 71, 145
Bark, hull and rig 29
Barnard, William 36-37
Barnard and Adams 36-37
Baron Renfrew 13
Barque, Cooke's engraving 39-40;
  early development 29-30, 42;
  four-masted 15
Barquentine, early examples 74, 79;
  later examples 122
Bathe, B W 90
Baugean, Jean, engravings published
  28, 60 142
Bayley, George 40
Bayley, Jabez, shipbuilder 40-41
Beach, unloading on 48-51
Bee 113
Bellona (Dutch) 10
Bengal 45
Bennett, J 147
Bergh, C, & Co 168
Betty 53-54
Biddlecombe, George, revises book
  139, 144-45
Bideford, vessels built at 62-63
Billy-boy, compared to galliot 142;
  described 65, 145, 147;
  development of 65, 145; drawn by
  Cooke 64; rig of topsail 62;
  various rigs 145
Black Ball Line 163
Black, George, ships described 11 I
Black Prince, hull and decks 113, 115,
  116; plans 112-15; sail plan
  described 113, 115
Black X Line 163, 167
Blackwall frigate, described 170 et
  seq; name origin 161; similar to
  naval 174, 176, 180
Blackwall Yard, 173-74, 176
Blaikie Bros 154
Blenheim, dismasted 179, 181; hull
  form 178, 180; model 178, 180;
  lines plan 179; sail plan 180-81
Bluejacket 62
Bombay 161
Bonanza, early barquentine 79, 122;
  hull form 79-80, 102; plans 79;
  reconstruction 79-80; record
  passage 80; sail plan described
  80; sister to Maypo 75, 79
Bouquet, Michael 51
Boyle, Vernon 130
Brig, American 1 19-22; at Swansea
  115-17; at Wisbech 51, 113;
  Danish 116, 118-19; examples
  analysed 49-56, 112-22; few plans
  113; polacre rig 131-33; rules for
  spar lengths 53; terms used by
  Hall 44, 116, 130
Brigantine, defined 129-30; disguised
  as `schooner' 44, 74, 127, 129;
  similarity to brig 123, 130; term
  used by Hall 44, 116, 129; types
  compared 123-30; three masts
  122
Brilliant (1800) 23
Brilliant (1814) 42
Brilliant (c1839) 141
Brindley, J & T 41
Brocklebank, T & J, first schooner
  63; typical hull form 80, 102; use
  of same offsets 75, 77, 79, 102;
  vessels built 1815-35 74-80;
  vessels built 1836-50 100-10
Brocklebank,'Fhomas 74, 102
Brothers, 123
Brown & Bell 163, 168
Brown & Simpson 100
Browning, A S E 45
Brunel, I K 18
Brutus 123
Bucephalus 178
Buchan 44, 123
Buckinghamshire 161
Buckler's Hard, ships built at 35-37,
  39, 105
Buoyant 75
Bureau Veritas, history 16-17
Burita 112
Burn, Daniel & Son 106
Buss, herring 65
Byron 121


Caledonia 155
Calypso 74
Cambria 60
Cammillieri, Nicolas 54
Camperdown 178
Canada, shipbuilding in 13, 111-12
Canning 161
Canton 85
Carlebur, Franqois 127
Carmelita 157
Caroline 35
Carswell, John 45
Cassiterides 108
Cat, pole-masted 130
Centreboard 141, 155-56; see also
  Sliding keel
Chapelle, Howard 1 121, 166
Chapman, Frederik af, his plans 65
Chariot of Fame 168
Charles W. Morgan 87
Charlotte 22, 55-56
Childe Harold 45
Chilmark 37
China trade 159-60, 170
Chisholm, Mrs 170
Christiana .52
Christine 125, 127
Christine jacquelin 122
Christopher, John, patent rig 32
Circassian 96
Clark, John P, shipbuilder 127
Clark, William, artist 94, 111, 151
Claydon, F A 155
Clipper 155-56
Clio, described 65; plans 66-67
Clyde 23
Coal trade 49, 51
Cock of the North 73
Cohota, described 160; plans 158-5q
Coliseum 31, 159
Colliers 49-51
Colling & Pinkney 107
Colour scheme 31
Columbus (1824, Capt Jackson) 15
Columbus (1824 4-m bk) 13-15
Columbus (1834-35) 166
Construction, Annesley's patent 41;
  brig in 1842 109, 111; clinker 145,
  147; diagonal truss I 11; N
  Atlantic packets 164, 166, 168;
  plank thickness 106; planking
  expansion 24-25; specification of
  iron ship 182-83; specification of
  wood ships 45-46, 178; whaler 81;
  woods used 75, 182-83; see also
  Iron
Contract, quoted 178
Convicts, carriage of 42
Cooke, E W, artist 29, 39, 71;
  drawing by 63, 71, 144; engraving
  identified 39-40
Cornelius Grinnell 168
Cornwall schooners built 134
Coromandel, lines plan 172-74
Corsican, 45
Costagliola, Michael 158, 159,
  166-67
Costs, Blaekwall frigate 178;
  building c 1821 40; Canadian
  ships 13, 112; Hall's Ships 42,
  44-45, 62, 72, 95; iron schooner
  155; sloops 72; spars in 1830 62;
  Stephen's ships 99-100; whaler
  81, 84, 182; wire rigging 150, 183
Cotton trade 159, 163
Countess ofBective 20
Courier, compared with others 79; sail
  plan 77, 136; scale of plan 80;
  spar dimensions 79
Coutts, John & Co, ships built by
  154; used wire rigging 151, 154
Coutts & Parkinson 154
Cowes ketch 71
Creuze, Augustin, F B 156
Crew, ofpolacre 134; whaler 83
Crisis 102
Cropper, Benson & Co 45
Crusader, spars listed 116
Cunningham, reefing gear 107
Cushing, John H 121
Cutter, converted to schooner 71;
  fast sailing 62; with mizzen 122,
  145; see also Leith smack
Cutly Sark 101
Cyclone, effects of 172
Cynthia, 94; accounts 95


Deck fittings, capstan plan 47;
  described 46-49, 1 16; emigrant
  ship 171; gothic mouldings 100;
  Straker's windlass 45, 49; winch
  plan 47; windlass plan 47, 48;
  Yett's patent 48
Deck Layout, after house 107, 109;
  four types 46; Swansea brig 116
Dandy, 122, 145
Daniel & Emilie 55
Daniel Webster 168
Danish jagt, plans 147
Darley, shipyard 36
Dash, plans, 76-77, 80
Date, William 139
David Auterson 108
David Grant 99
De junge janus 84
Deerslayer 153
Denny, Capt G 174
Denny, Win & Bros 155
Derjunge Gustaf 84
Der Orientale 156
Desdemona 86
Design, Adam's ships 37; American
  schooners 141-42; American
  ships 159-60; billy-boy 65;
Brocklebank vessels 75, 77, 79-80,
  102; builder's comments 22; East
  Indiamen sterns 173;
  Hedderwick ships 22-23, 25;
  Hilhouse ships 35; N Atlantic
  packets 164, 166, 174; use of
  offsets 75, 77, 79, 102; whalers 8 1,
  83, 85, 87
Devonshire 167
Dickinson, Robert 147
Die Frau Lurewine 139
Dimensions, lengths defined 37
Ditchburn, Thomas J 147
Dixon & Co 4
Dogger 65
Dolphin striker 28
Don 42
Downie, W I 177
Dramatic Line 166
David 101-102
Dove (1817) 65
Dove (1844) 155
Dudman, William 36
Duffus, John & Co 154
Dunbar, Duncan 161, 177-78
Duncan, John 90
Dundonald 112
Dutch galliot, plan 32-33
Dutch kof, plan 127-29, 139
Duthie, Alexander 95
Duthie, Alexander & Sons 93, 96
Duthie, John 96
Duthie, William 45
Duthie, William, Bros 93, 96
Dutton, Thomas G 174, 177


Eagle (1814) 71
SS Eagle, (1835) 45
Earl of Balcarres 161, 163
Earl of Fife 93
Earl of Hardwicke 174, 177
Earl of Mulgrave 130
East Indiamen 161, 173, 176
Edge, Capt G W 164
Edinburgh, Glasgow & Leith S Co
  65
Edwards, Thomas 108
Elbe 74
Eleanor 111
Eleanor Dixon 4
Ellekilde 147
Ellen Simpson 1 15
Ellenborough 178
Emerald 105
Emigrant 88
Emigration, to Australia 170; to N
  America 168, 170
Empress Eugenie, steamer 153
Enderby, Chares 84
Enderby & Sons 84-85
Ennerdale, sail plan described 104
Envoy 87
Esk 80
Europa 42
Europe 163
Expedition, cost 45; sail plan 44
Experiment (1802) 63
Experiment (1820) 65


Fairbairn, William 147
Fairbairn & Co 147, 156
Falcon (1824) 142Fame 62
Family Colonization Loan Society
  170
Fanny 79
Farquharson 173, 181
Farr, Grahame 134
Fenton, Roger 11 I
Ferdinand 32
Fielding, Copley 29
Fincham, John, rules for spars 53-54
Fisher Thomas 102
Flash 154
Florence 45
Florence Barclay 92
Flute, hull form 32
Fly 65
Flying Kites, see under Sails
Foig a Ballagh 151, 154
Forest Monarch 112
Forth & Clyde Canal 156
Fortschritt 156
Fortuna 30
Foster, mizzen topsail 29-30
Frankfort Packet 58, 60
Freight rates, Atlantic packets
  163-64; convicts 42
Freund Georg 65, 142, 144
Friendship (1790) 37
Friendship (1824) 37


Galleas, compared to ketch 144; rig
  of63, 65, 142
Galliot, as 3-mast ship 32-33, 59;
  British equivalent 65, 142, 144;
  drawn by Cooke 64; Dutch,
  32-33, 127, 129; hull form 56, 65;
  rig of 63, 65, 142
HMS Ganges 151
Gannet 68
Garmouth, shipbuilding at 90, 123
Gazelle 75
Geddie, James, jnr 90
Geddie, James, stir 90 134; builder of
  Arab 40, 92; builds brigantines
  123, 125; designs analysed 42, 44,
  90, 92, 123, 125, 134
Geddie, William 90
Geo. W. Jones 19
George Canning 55
Gibson, James 108
Gilmour, David I 1 I
Glasgow, compared with other vessels
  22, 136; deck layout 57-58;
  identified 56; hull form 56, 134;
  lines plan 57, 123; rigging
  described 58-60; sail plan 25,
  57-59; topsail or doubling 32, 35,
  59, 60, 62, 65, 136, 144
Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum 178
Glentanner 93
Gold, discovered 94, 161
Goliath 148
Good, William 36
Graham, Charles 16
Grantham John, career tabulated
  151; coded wood 18; describes
  iron ships 148-50; iron pioneer
  147-153
Gratitude 53
SS Great Britain (1843), survives
  stranding 18 156
Great Britain, (1843 ship) lengthened
  105 107' sails listed 106
Great Exhibition 1851 178
PS Great Western 164
Green, Colonel 87
Green, George 176
Green, Henry 173
Green, Richard & Henry 161,
  172-73,176-78
Green, Wigram & Green 84, 173
Green William, shipowner 145
Greenhill, Dr Basil 131, 133-34
Grundy, W M, artist 47, 48, 131
Guano 10-11
Guide 155
Guns, on Blackwall frigate 180
Guy Mannering 166
Gwynn, Edward, artist 29


Hall, A, & Sons, brig and barque
  compared 75, 116; brigantine
  called `schooner' 44, 129;
  brigantines listed 62, 123; cost
  accounts 72, 95;his terminology
  116, 129; lofty sail plans 94 104;
  numbers built 62, 72, 93, 183;
  schooners 60, 62-63; ships
  described 41-45, 93-96;sloops
  and smacks 62, 72-73; uses
  Straker's windlass 45, 49
Hall, Alexander 41, 42
Hall, Henry 119
Hall, James 41
Hall, William 41
Hallowe'en 80
Hamille Mitchell 99
Haniel, Jacob & Huyssen 156
Hannah More 44-45
Hardy, Robert, shipbuilder 104
Harmony, cost account 72;sail plan
  35, 72, 73
Harold, lines plan 102-103
Harpooner 83-84
Harvey, shipbuilder 145
Havre, plans 166-67; photo 168
Haws, John 1 1 1
Heathcote, Capt, author 28
Hedderwick,Peter, book on naval
  architecture 22, 25-27, 46;
  comments on Steele's shins 23,
  25; defines length 37;designs
  analysed 22-26, 56-57, 134; plan
  of Leith smack, 71; plans of brigs,
  51-54; plans of schooners 55-58,
  123; plans published 25-27, 32,
  42, 47; rules for spar lengths 53,
  65, 66, 72-73, 90 92, 125 181;
  sail area 116; sail plan of500 tons
  ship 25 et seq, 83, 94, 170; style of
  drawing 125; see also Glasgow
Helena 159-60
Helvellyn 75
Henderson, James, reconstructs
  plans 42, 44, 60, 96
Henrietta 155-56
Henry, etching compared to Arab 90,
  93
Henry (1825) 39-40
Hermaphrodite 44, 129
Hero 55
Hilhouse, Hill & Co, plans survive,
  35, 107, 172; ships described 34,
  35, 107, 173-74
Hill, Charles and Sons 35
Hill, H Oliver 51
Hill, John C G 35
Hillmann, G 92
Hindoo 75
Hodge, Samuel 156
Hodgson, James, & Co 153
Hoffman, Frank 127
Huffnung, ex-DeJungeJanus (1780) 84
Huffnung (1844) 156
Honourable East India Co, charters
  ships 42 170~ 173; loses
  monopolies 10, 161, 170, 176
Hood, Walter, & Co 45, 93
Hooker 63
PS Hope (1822) 41
Hope (1849) 139
Horsburgh 102
Horton, Dennis 122
Hull, mouldings lOl
Hull form, Adams' ships 37;
  analysed by Richardson 26;
  Blackwall frigates 174, 178, 180;
  Brocklebank sisters 75, 79; flute
  32; Hedderwick's designs 23,
  25-26; Hilhouse ships 35; iron
  ship altered 149-50; kettle-bottom
  121, 159; merchant and naval
  174, 180; Steele's ships 23, 25
Humayoon 94
Humphreys, J B, shipbuilder 151
Hurry & Gibson 80
Huskisson, William 9
Hutchins, William 109, 111
Hydra 35-37


Idas, ex-Augustus 157
India trade 9, 35, 161
Indianer, plans 92, 95
Industrial revolution 9-10
Industry 102
Inglis 161
Inventory listed 95
Iron construction, clinker plating
  156; copied wood 18-19, 154-56;
  early development 15-16, 18-19,
  47-48, 153;John Garrow 148-50;
  Lloyds Register cautious 16, 19,
  156; platingjoints 149, 155-56;
  qualities and uses 18-19, 147-48,
  150; rules for building 19, 156;
  scantlings 149-50, 154, 182-83
Iran Duke 148
Iron Gem 154
Ironside 147, 148
Isabella (1786) 26
Isabella (1829) 49


Jackman, Stephen 121
Jackson & Jordan 148
James 42, 44
James, William I11
SS James Kennedy 153
James Monroe 163
James Watt 74
Jane Pirie 44
Java 161
Jeffreys, shipbuilder 111
Jeppesen, Hans 118
Jessie Logan 111
Jhelum 104, 105
Jireh Perry 86
Jobbins, J R 131
John 134
John Brenner 1 1 1
John Cabot 35
John Garrow, construction 140-50;
  hull altered 150, 153; hull form
  148-50; plans 148-50; rigging
  sizes 150, 183; specification
  182-83
John Laird 155
John o'Gaunt 104
Jones, Rev Calvert R, artist 60, 68,
  73, 144; photographer 15, 115
Josephine 153
Juan de la Vega 123
Julia 111
Jumna 77
Junior 111
Juno, steamer 156


Keel, Humber 65
Keenlyside, J 49
Kelvin 156
Kemp, Dixon 79
Kennaugh William 51
Kennedy, Lumley 103
Kennedy, Lumley & Co 103-104
Kestrel 142 144
Ketch, Cowes 71; development of 65,
  68, 122, 144; fore-and-aft 144;
  galliot similar 144 square rigged
  141, 142, 144; yards on main 144
Keying 121
Kezia Page 129
Kinlock, William 90
King of Tyre 136
Kingston-on-Spey, shipbuilding 90,
  92, 123
Kipping, Robert 29; rules for sails
  139, 181
Klingender, shipowner 157
Kof, 63, 127


Lady Forties 182
Lady Melville 161
Lady Octavia 153
Lady Raffles 172
Lagoda 86
Laing, Charles 178
Laing, James 177-79
Laird, John 147-48, 153, 155-56
Laird, Macgregor 156
Lamburn unloading coal 48-49, 51
Lannercosl 102
Lark 65
Launch, described 81, 154
Lawton, William & James 11 I
Leather, John 40
Leeboards 71, 145, 156
Leith Smack 22; described 71; plans
  70-71; sail plan 25
Lever, Darcy, on sail plans 28-29
Lily 13
Lime kilns 134
Lindsay, W S 16
Lion Hill 11 1
Lively 58-59, 125
Little, Fred, photographer 107
Liverpool & London Shipping Co
  155
Liverpool Museum (Merseyside
  County Museum) 113, 115
Liverpool Polytechnic Society 153
Lizzie Garraw 136, 139, 141
Lloyd's Register, classification
  systems 11, 13, 15-16, 19, 21; first
  iron vessels 19, 148; publication
  history 16, 21; rigs listed 21, 63,
  65, 130; rules for iron
  construction 19, 156; survey
  reports useful 20, 130, 153; type
  of data given 20-21
Lloyd's Shipowners Register (red book)
  21
Lloyd's Underwriters Register (green
  book) 21
Loire, steamer 153
London, shipbuilding at 108
London (1832) 173
Longstaff, Major F V 36, 49, 105
Lonsdale, Earl of 103
Lord Western, sail plan 94-96
Lord William Bentinck 35, 175
Louisa 45
Loyalist 122
Lubbock, Basil 174, 178
Lunnan & Robertson 93
Luzro, John, artist 164
Lyman, John 122
Lynn, J. artist I II


McGill, Capt Joseph 108-109
MacGregor, John I17
McKay, Donald 168
McKay, Lauchlan  65, 122
Madagascar 163, 174, 176
Magnus Troil, dimensions  60, 62; sail
  plan 42, 60; topsail on doubling
  35, 60
Mangalore III
Mangles  42
Maitland 26
Marco Polo 112, 181
Marc, Charles 147
Maria, photographed 107, 199
Marine Historical Association  87
Marland, James 155
Marlborough,  passage from Australia
  181; sister of Blenheim 178-79
Marlipins Museum 176
SS Marmora 122-23
Maro 84
Marquis of Wellesley, steamer 153
Mars  174
Marshall 151
Mary (1803) 23, 25
Mary (1818) 36-37
Mary (1831), sail plan 51
Mary (1875) 71
Mary Ana Peters  113
Mary Dugdale 20
Masts, see under Spars
Mather,  Dixon & Co 153
Matilda 44, 123
Maudslay, Sons & Field I 17
Maurition  106
May 75
Mayflower 45
Maypo, offsets of 19; sister to Bonanza
  75, 79-80; spar lengths 80
Maypole, wrong spelling 80
Mazeppa 74-75
Medina, 28, 84
Meg of Meldon, sail plan 101
Mercury 154
Merrimac River, ships built on 119
Minden  177-78
Minerva  161
Mitchell, Charles 154
PS Monarch (1833) 71
Monarch (1844) 108, 176, 178
Montauk 160
Morton, T & Co 56-57
Mottershead & Hayes 80, 83
Muffie 131
Mulgrave   58-59
Munn, John I1 I
Myers, Robert 11


Nance, R Morton  115
Nantucket 84, 85
Napier, David  147
Napier, w & Crighton  156
National Maritime Museum
  Greenwich, models 134, 136
  171-73, 176; plans, 35, 37
Nautilus 41
Naval Costume 141, 144
Navigation Laws (Acts) 9, 10, 13, 16
Navy Board 29
Neilson, compared with other vessels
  57, 112-13; described 37-39; hull
  form 39; pin rail 46; plans 39
Nesbitt, John J 111
New England 164
New Express 105-106
New System 41
New World 168
Newall, Robert S 151
Newton, Robert S 151
Newton, rigging 131, 134; sial plan
  131-33
Nicholson, shipowner 111
Nicholson, windlass maker 49
Nicol & Reid 93
Nonsuch (1813) 41
Non-such (1842), model of 42
Northern Chief  92


Oberon, dimensions 77, 79; sail plan
  77,79-80
Ocean Monarch (1847) 168
Ocean Queen 119
Offsets, plans drawn from  79, 102
Ohio 164
Olive,Isaac  111
Oliver, Thomas 111
Omega  111
Onondoga 111
Orchard. Capt B 31
Ornen 121
Orwell 40
Owen Glendowe 174
Owens, John 111
Oxford 164, 166
Ozanne, Pierre, artist 130, 134

PS Pacific, 153
Packet ships,  described 163-70
Page & Grantham 153
Palos, 121
Panama I60
Paris, Adml, plans of bombarde 65;
  plans of three-masted galliot
  32-33
Parker 176
Parkinson, W E 104
Partington, C F 68
Passengers, cabins, 176; on N
  Atlantic 163-64
Patna 102
Patriot 123
Patriot King 77
Pearce, James, inventor 151
Pearson,  John 72
Pellegrin, Honore  125
Petchelee sail plan desrribed 102-103
Peter and Sarah 133-131
Petersen, Jacob, artist 54, 136
HMS Phaeton 148
Pilgrim 55
Pinney,  Richard 36-37, 39,105
Plough 42
Pocohontas (brig)  121
Pocahontas (3m sch) 151
Polacca, see under Polacre
Polacre, described 130-34: in Bristol
  Channel 130-31, 134; in
  Mediterranean 130
Porrit, WV W 145
Post Office packet 71
Pow & Fawcus, 152
Powhatan 121
Prices, emigrants costs164, 170;
  passenger cabins 163; sale of East 
  Indiamen 163
Prince Albert, steamer 153
Prince of Wales  176
Prince of Waterloo 42
Princess Charlotte, steamer 81
Princess Mary 37
Princess Royal (1841 by Duthie)  95
Princess Royal (1841 by Hilhouse),
  plan 34, 35, 107
Princeza  116
Prinz Carl 29
Prior, W H,  artist 174
Profits, on Cynthia 95: shipbuilding
  40, 42
Proto 155
Pyne, W H, artist  68


Q.E.D. 151: 154
Quebec, shipbuilding 13, 111
Queen 176-77
Queen  Victoria,  164


Railway 145
Ps Rainbow  (1837) 148
Ralnboar (1845) 160
Rapid  45
Red Star Line 163
Red Swallowed LIne 163, 168
Rees, Abraham 174
Reliance (1817) 72
Reliance (1831) 35
Reliance (1838) 123
Rennie, William 45
Renoun  35
Resolution 80
Richardson, Thomas, hull form
  analyzed 26, 51
Riddle, Edward 19
Rigging, Blackwall frigate 174; brig
  115; described 26-30; in chain
  151; in iron wire 150-51, 183; lead
  of braces 27; polacres 130-34;
  schooners 57-60;screws 151;sizes
  27, 183; topsail on doubling
  31-33, 35, 59-62. 73
Rigs, contrary descriptions 44, 53;
  conversion of,  22, 63; early
  barquentines 79: listed in Lloyds,
  Register, 21, 63, 65; spirit-rig 121;
  see also Terminology
Roma  75
PS Rio Doce, 151
Ritchie, william, & Co, 41
Rival 63, 65, 73
Robert Small 173
Robebertson & Co 151
Ronalds,,John, & Co 93, 148-49
Rosa 54
Roscius 163
Rotterdam Packet 72
Round stern 56, 156
Rousseau 86
Roux, A 32-33, 131
Rowland Hill 102
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,
  109
Royal George 74
PS Royal William 111
Royal Yacht Squadron 141, 112, 144
Ruby 35
Ruddurk, Francis & Jospeh 112
Russell, J Scott 18, 153


Sails curved luff of jib, 63-65: cut of
  26-30; early form of double
  topsails 32.63: flying kites 31.
  94-95, 159; listed in 1843, 106;
  moonsail 31, 95. 159; rules for
  sizes 139. 181; spiritsail 28;
  staystails 27-29, 181; stunsails 30,
  95; stunsails photographed
  120-21: topsail set on lower mast
  30, 32-33, 35, 59-62, 73; trysails
  29-29: see also Rigging, Spars
Sailing instructions 108-109
Sail Plans, Blackwall frigates 174,
  181; brig and barque connpared
  20, 116: cut down 51,105,139;
  Hall's vessels 44; lofty pre-1850
  94, 101;N Atlantic packets 166;
  proportions 26-27. tall and
  narrow 26, 44, 159: whaler,  83; see
  also Heddenwick, Spars
St Hilda  111
Saint John, shipbuilding, I3, 111-112
Salisbury, William 113, 115, 121-2'.
  135, 172-73, 178
Sally Gale 154
Salmon, Robert, artist 54
Samuel Enderby 8s
Santiago 92,107-108
Santon, I02
Sappho 35
Sarah 134
Sarah Palmer 153
SS Sarah Sands, 153
Saunderson, Robert, & Co 156
PS Scarborough 153
Schank, Capt 56
Schooner, American 141-42, built of
  iron, 153-56: Canadian 111:
  development  42, 62-63; early
  photographs 60, 63; early
  three-masted 74, 142; cxamples
  described 134-42; given square
  sails 139, 141; Swedish 60, 62;
  three-masted 2-topsail 141;
  two-masted 2-topsail 42, 60, 62;
  unpopular in Europe 62-63;see
  also Glasgow
Schooner-brigantine 127, 139, 141
Science Museum, London, 90, 123,
  134
Scilly, Isles of, shiphuilding 108
Scoresby, Capt W, jnr 80-81, 83, 84
Scoresby, Clat W, snr 80-81
Scotia (1836), model 170-71, 173
Scotia,(1843) 125
Scott, shipbuilder 105
Scott Sinclair & Co, 153
Scottish maid  model 42; why ordered
  93
Sea Star 93
Seagull 71
Seppings, Sir Robert 35, 74
Seringapatam, described 174; influence
  on design 174, 176, 178, 180; lines
  plan 172-4; models 173-74; new
  design 173-74
Severn 23
Seydel, Alexander 156
Shallop I 133
Shipbuilding, Bayley's problems
  40-41; boom of 1837-41 10, 92-93;
  increase in size 111-12.159,
  163-64, 166, 168; protection of
  British 13 et seq; on Merrimac
  River 119; on speculation 100;
  tonnage built in Gt Britain
  1815-1905   13; tonnage built in,
  Canada 13, 111-12: under a roof
  99;see also Construction
Shipping Industry 9 et seq
Shlei, Charles, artist 55
Simons, Williams & Co 52, 154
Simpson, Robert 100
Sir Charles Forbes 12
Sirius steamer 148, 161
Sivor 60
Sliding keel 56, 71, 156
Sloop 62, 65, 72-73
Smack, numbers built 62; speed of
  71; trading 133: see also Cutter
  Leigh Smack
Small, Adrian 127
Smith, Andrew,wire rope 150-51,
  183
Smith, James 112
Smith, James Thomas 112
Smith, John  W  112
Smith, Raymond  49
Smith, Samuel, photographer 51
Smith, T & W  139, 161, 170.173;
  builders of Blenheim 29, 178-81
Smith, Thomas 173
Smith, William, 170, 173, 180
Smith & Diuon 168
Smith & Sons 173
Smith's Dock Co 178-79
Smyth, Adml 116, 145
Somes, Joseph 161
Somes Bros, 100
Southampton 172, 174
Southern  Whale Fishery  Co 84-85
sovereign, steamer 154
Sowerby 49
Spars. barqeuntine 80: bentinck
  boom 25,29-30, 53, 83-84; brig
  and barque compared 75 116;
  fidded royal masts 26, 83; gunter
  poles 39, 54; iron truss 113, 176:
  long doubling on mast 30, 32:
  passaree boom 155; sizes listed
  79,116; small brigs 115: rules for
  lengths 53-54;trisail masts 29.
  54i1, 83-84;2-piece masts on ship
  32; see also Sail Plans
Spindrift 100
Spry, F W, photographer 34
Star of Emire 168
Starbuck, Alexander, 87
Statistics, American whaling 87;
  British whaling 80, 84; colliers
  and coal. trade 49, 51;.emigrants
  to Australia 170; emigrants to N
  America 168, 170; schooners built
  62; ships built by Hall 1836-55
  183; total tonnage in various
  countries 11, 13
Steadfast 35, 107
Steamers, built of iron 148, 151,
  153-56; tonnage built 1815-1905
  13
Steel, David, book revised 139, 141,
  145; collier brig 134; deck fittings
  in 1805 46; rules for spars 53; sail
  plan of 1794 27, 30
Steel, Joseph, & Son 104-105
Steele, James 45
Steele, Robert, & Co, builder of
  Amazon 22-23; Hedderwick's
  comments 23, 25; ships described
  45; specification 45
Stephen, Alexander 96, 99-100;
  taught by Hall 42
Stephen, Alexander, & Sons,
  numbers built 100; ship's
  described 99-100; shipyard
  99-100
Stephen.i William, jnr 96, 99
Stephen, William, snr 96
Sterns 173-74
Stevens, R W 134
Straker, George 48
Stratford, ex-Arctic 164
Superior 72
Susanna, ex-Druid, sail plan 101-102
Sutcliffe, F M, photographer 58-59
Sutlej 177
Swallowtail Line 163
Swan 84
Swansea Iron Shipbuilders 156
Symmetry 104
Symonds, Adml 144
Syren 84
Szymanski, Hans, sail plans 32, 35


Tabor, Clement 95
Tampico 75
Tar 156
Tartar, spars listed 116
Tay 111
Tay Whale Fishing Co 77
Tayleur, C, & Co 153
Terminology, rigs and rigging 42, 44,
  116, 127, 129, 141
Teupken, D A, artist 31, 35, 54, 63,
  65, 125, 142, 159
Thalia described 11, 36-37, 47;
  dimensions compared, 106; goes
  to India, 161, 170; lines plan,
  36-37
The Queen steamer, 153
Theodore 1 I 1
Thetis 29
Thomas Arbuthnot 93-95
Thomas Tucker 111
Thommesen T, & Son 168
Thompson George 45
Thornson, George 1 I 1-12
Thornly, artist 62
Thwaites, George 49
Thwaites & Winter 49
Tigris 101
Timber trade 13
Tinker 155-56
Tinto 105
Tod, David 147
Tod & MacGregor 148
Todd, Capt 71
Tonnage measurement 19-20, 159;
  effects of alteration 29-30, 88; nm
  and om 20, 88; rule for `length' 37
Trade, expansion 10-11, 13
Trafalgar, described 176-77
Transit, 3 of this name 79
Trevithick, Richard 147
Trio 94
Trow, described 68
Tudgay, F, artist 163


United States of America, tonnage
  built in 13


Valparaiso 102
Venus (bk) 92
Venus (1848 sch) 156
Vernon 174
Vernon, John, & Sons 45
Vernon, Thomas, & Co 148, 153
SS Vesta 101
Victoria (1831) 35
Victoria (1837) 136
Victoria (1838), deck fittings 134, 136;
  hull form 134; rigged model 134,
  136; sail plan 136, 139
Vigilant 123
Violet, bulwarks and decks 51,
  13-25; hull form 125, 134; lines
  plan 92, 123-25; sail plan 124-25;
  similar to schooner 139, 141
Volonte de Dieu, plan 65-66
Vulcan (1840) 148
Vulcan (1841) 156
Vulcan (1846) 155


Walker 84
Walker, Capt W T 87
Walter Hamilton 45
Walters, Samuel, artist 147, 157
Ward, John, artist 26, 30-31, 81, 94
Ward, T W, artist 125
Wars, Napoleonic 9-10; Naval
  1812-15 159
Washington 159
Waters Thomas 139
Wave 129
Webb, Isaac 164
Webb, William H, builds Atlantic
  packets 164, 166-67; china
  packets 158, 160
Wemyss, shipowner 92
Wesleyan 145, 147
Westervelt & Mackey 167 168
Whalers, Deck layout 83, 85, 87;
  try-works 85, 87
Whaling trade, American 85-87;
  Arctic 80-84; Pacific 84; Southei
  Fishery 83-85; see also Statistics
Whall, Capt, W B 62
Whitby, rigs built at 62-63
Whitby Literary & Philosphical
  Society 83
White, Thomas 85
Whitehaven Steam Shipping Co 15:
Wigram, Money, & Sons 161, 173,
  176, 178
Wigram, Robert 173
Wigram, Sir Robert 84
Wilkinson, John 147
William Connal 151
William Miles (1808 83
William Miles (1816 34, 83
William Nicol 84
William Young, described 52-55, 56;
lines plan 53
Wilson, Capt 35
Wilson & Co 84
Windlass, improved 88; operation
  49, 88-89; plans 47 48
Wingate, Thomas 147
Woodville 105
Wm. L Cogswell 141
Wright, Richard 112
Wright W & R 112
Wright, William  112
Wyllie, Lt-Col Harold 180-181 


Yarborough, Lord 142, 144
Yawl 145
Yetts windlass gear 48, 49
York 112
Yorkshire 166
Young, Arthur, compiled Nautical
  Dictionary 6, 96, 127, 129-30,
  140 144
Young Bros 90
Young, windlass maker 49

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