Chapter 1: Stephen R. Berry (Associate Professor of History, Simmons College, US), The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue
Chapter 2: Christian Algar (Curator, Printed Heritage Collections, British Library), Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of a Puritan Naval Chaplains Library at Sea
Chapter 3: Tamsin Badcoe (Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK), Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin
Chapter 4: Jimmy Packham (Lecturer in North American Literature, University of Birmingham, UK): The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship
Chapter 5: Laurence Publicover (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK) and Eli Cumings (Postgraduate Researcher, University of Cambridge), Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments
Chapter 6: Helen Chambers (Research Associate, The Open University, UK), The Torrens as a space of writing, reading, and performance
Chapter 7: Mary Isbell (Assistant Professor of English, University of New Haven, US), Recognition and Anonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers aboard USS Macedonian
Chapter 8: Susann Liebich (Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Heidelberg University, Germany), Identity and Community in New Zealand Troopship Magazines of the First World War
Chapter 9: Tamson Pietsch (Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), The laboratory method made mobile: learning aboard the 1926-27 Floating University
Chapter 10: David Punter (Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK), Down to the Sea in Ships
Afterword: Hester Blum (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University, USA).