xxvi CONTENTS

XXV. Necessity of sea experience for the Tsar’s Navy . . io8

XXVI. The Russian Baltic fleet.109

XXVII. Questions relating to officers.119

XXVIII. Various works in hand—Concluding remarks . . . 123

XXIX. List of Russian ships in 1724.126

XXX. List of officers in the Russian Navy in the Baltic . . 128

XXXI. Ceneral list of Russian ships, 1710-1724 . . . 130

Appendix A. The Swedish Navy in Peter the Great’s time . . 133Appendix B. Englishmen and Scotchmen in the service of theSwedish Admiralty in the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries . . . . . .141

Appendix C. The Swedish Skargards fleet, or special coast

service force . . . . . . . 144

Appendix D. Official declarations of naval policy in Sweden . 148Appendix E. Pay of the English Navy in the age of Peter the

Great.149

Index

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