INDEX

Admiralty College, at St. Peters-burg, 62 ; its members began toact, ib. ; functions of, 63Antufiof, Captain, 92Apraxin, Count, Captain, 64-5, 80Apraxin, Frederick, Count, GeneralAdmiral, sits on a court-martial,25 ; member of the Admiralty,62 ; member of the Board fordrawing up Articles of War, 74 ;character of, 77; is rather es-teemed than beloved by theTsar, 78-9 ; a humane man,80-1 ; disputes with the Tsar infavour of Sievers, 85-6; mis-trusts Gordon, 85 ; returns fromthe Caspian, 118. Mentioned:5, 22, 42, 52, 65-7, 69, 76, 121-2Armfelt, Swedish General, 21Armitage, Captain, 92Arseenofif, Captain, 57Asof, capture of, 1 ; given back tothe Turks, 14

Baggs, master block-maker, 6Baker, Captain, 30, 48, 50Baltic, the Tsar wants a port inthe, 107

Barbarous ravages of the Russians,49 , 50 , 81

Batting, Captain, 44, 52, 66Bent (or Bents), Peter, master-builder and captain, to, 13, 14,44 , 57 - 8 , 62-3, 92Bering, Vitus Jonassen, Captain,the famous discoverer, 25, 41,44 - 5 , 92, 128Besemacher, Captain, 50Block, Captain, 45 ; struck his

pennant to the English Admiral,46 ; was imprisoned and died ofexcessive drinking, ib.

Blorey, Captain, 55, 63

Brant (or Brants), Captain, 18,30,41, 92

Bredale, Captain, 30, 35-6, 41,44-6, 50, 55, 58; Commodore,88-9

Brown (or Browne), Richard,master-builder, 10, 17, 20, 100,124

Bruce, Jacob Daniel, General,Russian plenipotentiary, 57

Buss, Count de, rear-admiral ofthe galleys, 19, 25 ; his ignor-ance, 22 ; his death, 43

Buturlin, Ivan Ivanovitz, General,69

Captains, their pay and precedence,

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Carabin, Captain, 89Careybashes, timber vessels on theLadoga Lake, mChalks, one-masted flat-bottomedvessels on the Caspian, 3, 20Chancellor, Richard, opened Russiato Western Europe, xiChapezan, Captain, 55, 66, 92Chapman, Frederick Henry,master shipwright of Sweden,142

Chapman, Thomas, captain in theSwedish navy, 142Charles XL, reorganises theSwedish navy, xxii, 136-7 ;founds Karlskrona, ib.

Charles XII., the character of, fatal