Book 1. Brave Men and Braver Women
3. In Wild and Distant Seas
5. The Daring Fishermen of New England
7. An Indifferent Screw Steamer
9. Like Pursuing a Coy Maiden
11. Come on My Deck and Fight Me
Book 3. The Lance Strikes
13. Idle Wharves and Dismasted Ships
14. Death Stared Us in the Face
15. In the Topmost Frost-Killed End of Creation
16. How Many Will See the Last Day of Next August?
17. The Most Crushing Blow
Book 4. Rolling Out on the Fin
18. Enough to Fill a Book
19. Appreciable Deterioration
20. Looking for a Modern Joshua
21. A Dreary and Uncertain March
Epilogue: The Clear-eyed Men of the Sea