| PAGE |
| Author’s Preface | [5] |
| Loss of the Josephus | [8] |
| The Clara Bell | [11] |
| The Loss of the Ship Peruvian | [14] |
| The Bark Francis | [18] |
| Loss of the Giovanni | [21] |
| The Jason | [24] |
| Loss of the Steamship Portland | [27] |
| The Gift of the Sea | [31] |
| A Few of the Many Deep Sea Mysteries | [34] |
| The Monte Taber | [35] |
| Loss of the Oakland | [37] |
| Loss of the Castagnia | [39] |
| Thomas W. Lawson—the Largest Schooner | [41] |
| Loss of the Ship Asia | [42] |
| Barges Wadena and Fitzpatrick | [43] |
| Story of the Sloop Trumbull | [46] |
| Wreck of the Somerset—British Man of War | [48] |
| The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | [50] |
| The Self-Steered Craft | [52] |
| Tragedy of the Herbert Fuller | [53] |
| The Job Jackson Wreck | [56] |
| Loss of the Number 238 | [57] |
| The Palmer Fleet | [59] |
| A Gale, and What it Did | [61] |
| Loss of the Montclair on Orleans Beach | [63] |
| Loss of the Reinhart at Race Point | [65] |
| Was it Murder? | [67] |
| Stranding of the Barges | [69] |
| The John Tracy Mystery | [72] |
| Wreck of the Roger Dicky | [73] |
| The Gettysburg Tow | [75] |
| Loss of the Elsia G. Silva | [77] |
| A Terrible Disaster | [78] |
| Terrible Submarine Disaster | [80] |
| Stranding of the Robert E. Lee | [85] |