| [Lieut.-Commander Montgomery Sicard] | Frontispiece |
| [U.S. Steamer Saginaw, Fourth-Rate] | 2 |
| [The Landing at Midway Islands, showing Seals and Albatross] | 8 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [The Midway Islands as we left Them] | 8 |
| [Ocean Island and Reef] | 14 |
| [View of Ocean Island, Reef and Lagoon as seen from the South] | 16 |
| (The island is at the lower edge of the circle) |
| [Ocean Island as viewed from the North] | 16 |
| (The arrow shows where the Saginaw struck) |
| [The Saginaw in the Grip of the Breakers] | 24 |
| [The Condenser made from a Small Boiler and Speaking-Tubes] | 36 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [Gathering Timbers from the Wreck] | 36 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [The Captain's Tent] | 42 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [The Storehouse—elevated to avoid the Rats] | 42 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [Lieutenant John G. Talbot] | 46 |
| (Who volunteered and navigated the Saginaw's gig a distance of fourteen hundred miles to the Sandwich Islands and was drowned when the boat was in sight of land) | |
| [The Gig before Launching, with Sails made on the Island] | 54 |
| [Passed Assistant Engineer James Butterworth] | 62 |
| (Who, standing waist deep in the water, put the finishing touches to the gig) |
| [Ripping Timbers for the Schooner] | 74 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [The Frame of the Schooner as we left It] | 74 |
| From a sketch by Captain Sicard |
| [The Flagstaff from which the Kilauea was sighted] | 86 |
| [Camp Saginaw on the Day of Rescue] | 86 |
| Taken from the masthead of the Kilauea |
| [Captain Long, Commander of the Hawaiian Steamer the Kilauea] | 90 |
| [Mr. John Paty's Bungalow at Honolulu] | 98 |
| [Starboard Side of the Gig after her Eventful Journey] | 102 |
| [Deck View of the Gig after her Eventful Journey] | 102 |
| [William Halford, Coxswain, the Only Survivor of the Gig's Crew] | 110 |
| (He is now a retired chief gunner in the Navy) |
| [The Tablet now on the Walls of the Chapel at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis] | 119 |