| Acknowledgements | 9 | ||
| Being From Maine and Portland Harbor | 11 | ||
| The Virginia of Sagadahoc and Popham Colony | 15 | ||
| Early Schooners and the Advent of Steam | 20 | ||
| Schooners Come of Age: The Four-Masters | 26 | ||
| A Few Five-Masters | 34 | ||
| The Six-Masted Giants | 43 | ||
| The Celebrated Governor Ames | 55 | ||
| A Five-Masted Ghost Ship: The Carroll A. Deering | 67 | ||
| Twentieth-century Pirates: The Dreaded U-boats | 75 | ||
| Luther Little and Hesper | 82 | ||
| The Magic of the Wiscasset Schooners | 94 | ||
| Schooner Bones: Boothbay and the Ghost Fleet | 103 | ||
| The Log of the Zebedee E. Cliff | 112 | ||
| Bibliography | 123 | ||
| About the Author | 127 |