| Stoke-Hole of a Transatlantic Liner | Frontispiece |
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| Riveting the Outer Skin on the Frames of a 65,000-Ton Ocean Liner | 3 |
| Growth of the Transatlantic Steamer from 1840 to 1912 | 7 |
| Receiving Submarine Signals on the Bridge | 13 |
| Taking the Temperature of the Water | 17 |
| Fire-Drill on a German Liner: Stewards are Closing Door in Fire-Protection Bulkhead | 21 |
| Fire-Drill on a German Liner: Hose from Bellows Supplies Fresh Air to Man with Smoke Helmet | 25 |
| Fire-Drill on a German Liner: Test of Fire-Mains is Made Every Time the Ship is in Port | 29 |
| The 44,000-Ton, 25½-Knot Lusitania | 37 |
| Provisioning the Boats During a Boat Drill | 43 |
| Loading and Lowering Boats, Stowed Athwartships | 43 |
| The Elaborate Installation of Telegraphs, Telephones, Voice-Tubes, etc., on the Bridge of an Ocean Liner | 47 |
| Hydraulically-operated, Watertight Door in an Engine-Room Bulkhead | 53 |
| Diagram Showing Protective Value of Transverse and Longitudinal Bulkheads, Watertight Decks, and Inner Skin | 57 |
| Closing, from the Bridge, All Watertight Doors Throughout the Ship by Pulling a Lever | 63 |
| Great Eastern, 1858; Most Completely Protected Passenger Ship Ever Built | 71 |
| Longitudinal Section and Plan of the Great Eastern, 1858 | 77 |
| Two Extremes in Protection, and a Compromise | 83 |
| Great Eastern, Lying at Foot of Canal Street, North River, New York | 87 |
| Fifty Years' Decline in Safety Construction | 93 |
| Olympic, Sister to Titanic, reaching New York on Maiden Voyage | 97 |
| The Framing and Some of the Deck Beams of the Imperator, as Seen from Inside the Bow, Before the Outside Plating is Riveted On | 103 |
| How the Plating of the Inner Bottom of Such a Ship as the Titanic May Be Carried up the Side Frames to Form an Inner Skin | 107 |
| Twenty of the Twenty-nine Boilers of the Titanic Assembled Ready for Placing in the Ship | 111 |
| The Last Photograph of the Titanic, Taken as She was Leaving Southampton on Her Maiden Voyage | 117 |
| Swimming Pool on the Titanic | 121 |
| The Titanic Struck a Glancing Blow Against an Under-Water Shelf of the Iceberg, Opening up Five Compartments | 125 |
| Comparison of Subdivision in Two Famous Ships | 129 |
| The Vast Dining-Room of the Titanic | 133 |
| The United States Battleship Kansas | 137 |
| Plan and Longitudinal Section of the Battleship Connecticut | 143 |
| Midship Section of a Battleship | 149 |
| Safety Lies in Subdivision | 155 |
| The 65,000-Ton, 23-Knot Imperator, Largest Ship Afloat | 159 |
| Longitudinal Section and Plan of the Imperator |
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