list of Plates:
   Original title page
   Small boats
   Small boats
   Yarmouth cobles, on the beach
   The Thames, East Indiaman, 1424 tons, built for, and employed by, the
   Honourable East India Company, James Keith Forbes, commander Kemp-stairs, near Kingsgate
   Anchors
   Hay boats
   Scotch smacks
   Folkestone harbor, low water
   Billy-boy unloading at Shoreham harbor, low water
   Fishing smack Fishing boat
   Frigate, seventy-four, pilot boat at Spithead
   Barge and canal boats
   Barque, free-trader, London docks
   First-class West Indiaman Thetis (Captain Burton) getting under weigh off the Needles, Isle of Wight
   Prison ship in Portsmouth harbor, convicts going on board

   The Discovery, convict ship, lying at Deptford; the vessel that accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage
   H.M.S. Prince, first-rate, 110 guns
   The Wolf, brig of war (late of the Royal Navy), making signal and laying to for a pilot off Dover
   The Hastings, seventy-four, lying in ordinary in the Medway
   The Victory, first-rate, 104 guns, in Portsmouth harbor, 1828; collier alongside
   Sailing barge; Gravesend steam packet; colliers
   The United Kingdom (Edinburgh), steam vessel, 1000 tons burden, 200 horsepower
   Hatch boat (double-reefed) off Gravesend
   Collier in a calm
   Yarmouth herring boat (lugger) unloading at the quay
   Brighton fishing boats on the beach
   Sailing barges
   The Stationers' Barge
   Lugger on the beach, Brighton
   Thames wherries, Richmond
   Dutch galliots
   Dutch boats beating to windward
   Prawn boats, Brighton beach, April 1830
   Hog boats near the Battery, Brighton, May 1830
   Rope houses on the beach at Brighton
   Mackerel boats coming in, Brighton
   Thames barge going before the wind off Northfleet
   Lugger on the beach at Brighton
   Dutch galliot unloading, Great Yarmouth
   The circular stern of H.M.S. Asia, 84 guns, one of the ships in the engagement at Navarino
   A brig of war's 12-pounder carronade
   Lugger near the blockade station, Brighton
   Sheer hulk in Portsmouth harbor
   Dutch schuyt, Blackwall Reach
   Prussian snow
   Frigate under all sail
   Skiff at the entrance to the West Indian docks, Blackwall
   On the beach at Cromer
   Cowes boat coming out of the harbor
   Fishing boat arrived
   Schooner and smack (coasting traders) lying at Fresh Wharf, London Bridge
   Mud dredger, Portsmouth harbor
   Lobster boat at Rottingdean
   Prawn boat at Brighton
   Hog boat on the sands at Brighton
   Boat hut, Brighton beach
   Peter boats at Greenwich
   Crab boat at Rottingdean
   Oyster boats at Billingsgate
   Collier discharging
   Fishing smack; schooner; sloop-rigged barge
   Barges