| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | A Port of Vanished Fleets. | [3] |
| II | Philip English and his Era. (1680-1750.) | [21] |
| III | Some Early Eighteenth Century Pirates. (1670-1725.) | [39] |
| IV | The Privateersmen of ’76. | [58] |
| V | Jonathan Haraden, Privateersman. (1776-1782.) | [78] |
| VI | Captain Luther Little’s Own Story. (1771-1799.) | [98] |
| VII | The Journal of William Russell. (1776-1783.) | [117] |
| VIII | The Journal of William Russell (concluded). (1779-1783.) | [134] |
| IX | Richard Derby and his Son John. (1774-1792.) | [149] |
| X | Elias Hasket Derby and his Times. (1770-1800.) | [173] |
| XI | Pioneers in Distant Seas. (1775-1817.) | [197] |
| XII | The Building of the Essex. (1799.) | [228] |
| XIII | The First American Voyagers to Japan. (1799-1801.) | [250] |
| XIV | The First Yankee Ship at Guam. (1801.) | [270] |
| XV | Nathaniel Bowditch and his “Practical Navigator.” (1802.) | [288] |
| XVI | The Voyages of Nathaniel Silsbee. (1792-1800.) | [310] |
| XVII | The Voyages of Richard Cleveland. (1791-1820.) | [329] |
| XVIII | The Privateers of 1812. | [353] |
| XIX | The Tragedy of the Friendship. (1831.) | [378] |
| XX | Early South Sea Voyages. (1832.) | [406] |
| XXI | The Last Pirates of the Spanish Main. (1832.) | [431] |
| XXII | General Frederick Townsend Ward. (1859-1862.) | [451] |
| XXIII | The Ebbing of the Tide. | [482] |
| Appendix. | [499] |