“Nothing but a Dog,” Said the Boy (1897)

“How ‘The Skipper’ Was Saved,” The Quiver (1897): 179.

The Dragon Ship Was Glittering in the Bay (1888)

Elizabeth Jane Oswald, The Dragon of the North: A Tale of the Normans in Italy (London: Seeley and Co., 1888), frontispiece.

The Kestrel, On Board Which the Reader Will in Imagination Transport Himself, Was a Very Handsomely-Built Craft (1863)

¶ The day was delicious, and the sun had not yet commenced to parch the town and citizens, and we had a pleasant little breeze. ¶ Before us was the vast Pacific, where sky and water kiss each other; and the little white-sailed bark lies in the centre of the motionless expanse, with canvas flapping from the long yards, and pitch streaming down her black hull, while the tropical sun beams fiercely over head, and the shark follows day after day, and the flying fish darts up into the still air, and the dolphin swims round and round, and the stately albatross rises on the long rolling swell: or perchance the scene changes, and a long low hull, from which arise two tall spars destitute of canvas is madly hurled along, and the waters burst over her side and run through the scupper holes to leeward; and the terrified mariners, lashed to the shrouds. gaze around while the storm-fiend exults in black waves and the sombre sky.

 “The Perilous Adventures of Stephen Houston, M.D., as Related by Himself,” The Boy’s Yearly Book, Being the Twelve Numbers of the Boy’s Penny Magazine (January – December 1863): 267.

When a Wreck Is Connected with the Shore by Means of a Rope, a Traveling Cradle Is Made, and, so Long as the Rope Holds, Lives Can Be Saved (1904)

P.T. McGrath, “An Ocean Graveyard: Stories of Wrecks and Rescues on the Newfoundland Coast,” Pearson’s Magazine 17 (January 1904): 14.

In General There Is a Feeling of Great Security in the Water (1896)

Emily Nunn Whitman, “The Zoölogical Station at Naples, The Century  32 ( August 1886):793.

The Ink of the Cuttle Fish Is a Favourite Pigment Used in Water Colour Painting under the Name of Sepia (1882)

“The Cuttlefish,” The Home Visitor and District Companion: an Illustrated Magazine 9 (1882): frontispiece.

Not a Soul outside the Narrow Limits of the Cabin Had a Clue That a Diver Had Entered the Water (1919)

Kenneth L. Aitken, “From the Admiralty Files,” Illustrations by George Avison, The Century 99 (December 1919): 249.

“Kindly Excuse Me,” He Said with the Utmost Politeness, and the Splash Immediately Followed (1920)

Karl Wisehart, “Hunger,” Illustration by Ernest Fuhr, The Century 99 (Feb 1920): 493.

He Sent the Gentle Stranger Hurtling through the Air (1896)

W.W. Jacobs, “A Black Affair,” Illustrated by W.O. Bowman, The Idler 9 (April 1896): 410.

When Lighthouses, on Rocks and Headlands, Showed Solitary and Watchful; And Benighted Sea-Birds Breasted on against Their Ponderous Lanterns and Fell Dead (1891)

Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time, Illustration by C. Stanfield, R.A. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891), 14.

The Shark Continued for a Long Time to Agitate the Waters of the Roadstead (1839)

"The Shark II," The Saturday Magazine (December 28, 1839): 245.

"A" is the Exploding Cylinder; "M" the Lifeline, Fastened Round the Body of the Diver to Haul Him Up in Case of Accident to the Apparatus (1838)

"Blowing Up of the 'William' off Gravesend." The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette 29 (May 26, 1838): 129.

I Saw a Loose Pearl Whose Size Equalled That of a Cocoa-Nut (1873)

Translated from the French of Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Or, The Marvellous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner (Boston: G.M. Smith and Company, 1873), 161.

Harry Watts Settled the Difficulty by Dashing into the Sea and the Work of Rescue Was Resumed (1911)

Alfred Spencer. Life of Harry Watts: Sixty Years Sailor and Diver. Illustrations by Oswald Crompton. (Sunderland: Hills and Company, 1911).

Caulking a Ship While Underway (1870)

Léon Sonrel. Translated and edited by Elihu Rich. The Bottom of the Sea. (London: Sampson, Low, Son, & Marston, 1870).

The Diver's Helmet Showed Like the Back of a Big Turtle (1901)

Cleveland Moffett. Careers of Danger and Daring. Illustrations by Jay Hambidge, George Varian, and others. (New York: The Century Company, 1901).

Cannon, Bell, & Bones Brought Up From the Wreck of the Hussar (1873)

Frank B. Goodrich and Edward Howland. Ocean's Story; Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries; A Graphic Description of Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries, and Inventions: And of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation from the Ark to the Iron Steamships, with an Account of Adventures Beneath the Sea: Diving, Dredging, Deep Sea Sounding, Latest Submarine Explorations, &c.&c., Prepared with Great Care. (Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1873).

She Had on Board a Large Number of Slaves When She Struck on the Rocks, and Also a Considerable Sum of Money in the Form of Silver Dollars (1885)

"Diving Beneath the Sea." The Growing World, or Progress of Civilization and the Wonders of Nature, Science, Literature and Art, Interspersed with a Useful and Entertaining Collection of Miscellany by the Best Authors of Our Day. (Philadelphia: W.M. Patterson and Company, 1885).

At Work in the Hold of the Sunken Treasure Ship, Sending Up Chests of Gold (1895)

Framley Steelcroft, "Divers and Their Work," The Strand Magaazine 10 (1895): 402.

At the Moment the Train Fell, Certain People on Shore Had Seen Two Intensely Brilliant Sheets of Flame & Showers of Sparks (1911)

Alfred Spencer. Life of Harry Watts: Sixty Years Sailor and Diver. Illustrations by Oswald Crompton. (Sunderland: Hills and Company, 1911).