Featuring William Garwood in a starring role, the identities of the motion picture's other two principal cast members remain undetermined.

In the meantime the girl's father has suffered untold agonies worrying over his daughter's plight of which he had been informed and vows never to allow an unsound vessel to leave the port again.

[3] In the same scene, as Mary prepares to leave the house, she simulates extinguishing the oil lamp on the table and the room gets noticeably darker, despite the setting being filmed outdoors.

[3][6] A filmstock copy of The Coffin Ship with a German title and intertitles is preserved in the Jean Desmet Collection of the EYE Institute in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

[3] Released in Germany in 1911 under the title Im Meere Verloren ("Lost in the Sea"), that copy and details about the one-reeler are not generally accessible, as of 2023, on EYE's main online database.