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My early distrust of the bulk of history, which pastors and masters zanlously strove to bladgeon me into accepting as approsi mately accurate, was heightened by the illustrations in the history books, writes Bassett Digby, .ns in the Bled
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At this time, too, was evolved the fore runner of our modernt.bids.," in the shape of long, swift pinnaces called serpents, which carried dispatches und kept up communiestion between slower units of the fleet, besides engaging in cut- and-rue raids. Another type was the two and more than a couple of hundred soldiers decker galley, carrying two banks of rowers fur bourding an enemy yessel; in some caseg they were equipped with a Roman catapult and copper spout through which jets of in the bows, for throwing a good sized rock,
Greek Bre" were projected."
Richard's own Beet galley, and it becaue
"Trench-the-mer was the name given to! the name of a type of naval anit, Another type was the Exconer (Foam-maker), a fast, light vessel, A little Inter, in King John's day, appeared Saruska, Coga; and Nascellas.
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How small boys recoil from the printed word, how eagerly they scan the picture! Few publishers, telling a clerk to get 80 or 20 little illustrations done for "So-and-so's History of England" with the heedless insouciance of a builder af cathedrala ordering a few more Hagstones, realize the whole-hearted and impassioned scrutiny of
A great divance was made in British CALCUTTA HONGKONG-JAPAN LINE the details of these pictures which bored seafaring luto ju
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DACHSHUND OF THE DEEP.
To the delight of an enthusiastic clique, I started what amounted to an informal Society of Scrutators, which procured every history book it couli Lay its hands upon, and gloated over the glaring discrepancies in the numerous vessels which appeared" is the pictures. William the Conqueror was the prize exhibit. In seven different sorts of ships did versatile Norman William invade us on that.memorable more in 1066. We culled three or four Mayflowers, one being a sort of long low dachshund of the deep, with far too many cabins, doubtless inspired by the artist's refusal to believe that so many ancestors could have sailed for America in the conventionally accepted type of vessel.
Since those days I bave made something of a study of the various kinds of ship use in bygone days.
Few of them would not make Lloyd'a lilood run cold. Even cabins did "nota appear in sea-going vessels antil about 700 years ago. A cabin was mentioned for the first time in A.D. 129, by a royal warrant for a ship to be sent to Gascony, with the King's effects. About £1,000 is necessary now-a-days to pay for the privilege of cross- ing the Atlantic in the Imperial suite of a crack liner. For the building of this first cabin-and a royal one at that of which we have historical record, the uot excessive sum of 44. tid. was allocated for making a chamber in the said ship, to place the King's things io."
Cabins appear to have met a long-felt waat. In 1242 it was ordered that # couple should be prepared, and wainscoted, for the King and Queen, on the occasion of their voyage to Guacony.
EARLY CHANNEL. PACKETS)
British cross-Channel packets," ply. ing to France and Ireland during the centuries of Roman occupation, were very light and fragile craft, undecked, of course, and holding four or five persons. Wicker work kept keel und rits in place, and the "skin" of the boat was literally a skin- stout leather, in fact. They carried a small sail on a single little must, and the steering was done with one of the paddles.
The sea-going craft of the Danes. and Anglo-Saxons were Large open boats, running up to about 50 tons; bows and stern were high out of the water, to keep the crew dry in bad weather. Steering was done with two or three ours, and a big square sail was hong from a mast supported by a few shroads. The ail was bent on a kind of yard. A big boat carried about"60 men. Tu Danes improved the type latterly by putting a half-deck and protective turrets into the miding vessels of their navy.
To give these peses as good as they gave, Alfred. of burned-cakes fame, instituted the Two-Power Standard, laying down warships of double the size of the biggest Danish craft. They were more like a kind of galley. The impetus thus given to naval Construction led to a continual striving to better existing types of ship, that has been kept up ever since.
WILLIAM'S INVADING FLEET. William the Conqueror invaded England with n fleet of large open boats, lofty slemmed and sterned, propelled by sail and care. Their gunwales were high, and rendered higher by the shields of the soldiers that were hung around them. From 20 to 60 en "were contained by ench. The Batter and broader cavalry transporte wore low-gunwaled, to facilitate disembarkation. The invading Heet bad. luck. Bait weather was blowing up. Channel. Had it broken during Norman William's crossing, the history of the work might have been very different. But it did not reach the Hastings littoral until Fate night after the fleet's arrival. Then it battered scores of the vessels, to bits, at their moorings; and William, fearful of being cut off from his base, spent ten days hauling ashore the remaining transports.
Under Richard Cœur de Lion, 120 years later, came a boom in marine construction." British ships were built much bigger and of a number of new types. They still had only one mast, but they were now usually decked and provided with aftercastles as well as forecasties. The navy vessels evolved in this boom, had #tops" near the summit of the mast. (A "top" was, what we now call a "crow's nest glorified tub up aloft.) When a couple of rival warships came together during a fight, archers in these masthead tubs put pep into the proceedings by leaning over the edge and whanging down arrows into the crow on the enemy's deck.
stay-snil. The first rudders were evolved ate in the reign of Edward III., by which time 200-tonners were not unusual, huge times manning them. There was still only crews, amounting to 65 men and boys, some- one wil to a mast, though windwooers" (studding sails) were fixed on to the "trief" or "grent sailin time of neet.
Wages were not high in those days. Senmen had 3d., boys 1d., and captain, clerk, constable and carpenter (the four indispensable C's) 6d, a day,
SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.
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The P. & O ss. Macedonia, trom Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on May 29th, at 6,30 min,
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