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CHAPTER IV
early english yachts	56
Pepys's Diary and Naval History—Evelyn's Diary—The yacht Mary—First use of the yacht in word English literature—The King's yacht Catherine—Use of lead for ballast—Holland duck for sails—The Duke of York's yacht Anne—The Dutch yacht Bezan—Progress in ship building—Calculating a ship's displacement—The King's interest in maritime affairs—Yacht race between the King and the Duke of York—The Besano, Jamie, Charles, and Experiment—The Royal Society and Sir William Petty's inventions—Catamarans— The "versatile keel"—Propelling power in a ship, and copying machines—Petty's epitaph.
CHAPTER V
charles the second	91
The Henrietta—Lead sheathing—Stowage of ballast—The Charlotte—Ruyter's victory at Chatham — The Fanfan—Panther—Folly—Monmouth—Merlin—The London docks—Plague and fire—Rebuilding of London—The yacht Lenox—The Solalis—The Kitchin and other royal yachts—Striking topsails to the colors—The yacht Industry's voyage to Maryland, the first English yacht to cross the Atlantic—The King's last yachting cruise—His dying words.
CHAPTER VI
william and mary	116
Landing of King William at Torbay—The yacht Princess Mary Her remarkable longevity—The William and Mary—The Medina—Jacobite plots and yachts—Peter the Great, in Holland and England—The Little Grandsire—Generous action of Louis XIV.
CHAPTER VII
great britain and the united states	131
New York in 1679—The earliest American schooner—American origin of the term—The first American lighthouse—New York in 1717—The yacht Fancy—New York in 1746—The American lumber trade restricted to sloops—Influence of this rule upon ship building—Captain Schank's sliding keel—American independence—First appearance of the American flag in the Orient—Stephen Girard—The Enterprise—American sloop—Voyage to China and back—Captain Shackford crosses the Atlantic alone—First American vessel to circumnavigate the globe—Discovery of the Columbia River—Voyage of the sloop Union round the world—North River sloops—The leeboard—First American yacht, the Jefferson—Evolution of the centre-board—Centre-board patent of 1811—Baltimore clippers—Privateers—Frigates—The Constitution—Exploits of the American Navy—Life on the ocean.