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Sources

United States Navy

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs.html/ and http://hazegray.org/danfs/

The public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is the primary source for information about pre-Cold War United States Navy ships. Its coverage from the Cold War onward has been poor, but improvement efforts are underway.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/DANFS conversions for tips on turning DANFS info into a good Wikipedia article. If you use DANFS, add {{DANFS}} to the article's References section.

http://www.nvr.navy.mil

The Naval Vessel Register is a public domain resource for ships currently in commission and some recently retired ones.

http://www.navsource.org

NavSource is a good source of pictures but not all have Wikipedia-compliant copyrights.

http://combatindex.com/combatindex.html

Combat Index is another good source of pictures; pages on individual ships often contain photographs attributed to the US Navy, which makes them suitable for use on Wikipedia.

http://www.marad.dot.gov/sh/ShipHistory/ShipList

The Maritime Administration maintains the Reserve Fleet and handles the disposal of ships. The site is particularly useful for information about scrapping and disposal, as well as ships loaned or sold out of service. (This replaced the defunct PMARS site with similar data, including the card images, but not the artifact images).

http://www.ncts.navy.mil/nol/

• Navy On-Line lists nearly every U.S. Navy official and unofficial web site

Ship types

• The United States Submarine Veterans Inc. is primarily a community of submariners, but has some information on submarines "on eternal patrol;" i.e., lost.
• Destroyers OnLine - to collect, preserve and display historical information about the ships, their crews and the U.S. Navy. Includes destroyers, escorts, and frigates; destroyer classes; alphabetical list; links; glossary, bibliography. Individual ship profiles may include history, photos, crew locator, and email from crewmembers.

Royal Navy

• The maintainer of the Web site Ships of the Old Navy ( http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM ), which is devoted primarily to Napoleonic-era ships, has given Wikipedia permission to use any of his work. The Epopt has his statement of permission on file. The original site is no longer active, however its contents are available here.
• The maintainer of the Web site Navyphotos has given permission for materials from his site to be used, with the stipulation that a link and/or acknowledgement is requested. David Newton has the email giving permission. This permission is not compliant with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. New images should not be uploaded from this site.
• Her Majesty's Stationery Office has denied Wikipedia permission to copy anything under Crown Copyright. This includes the original imprints of ships' badges.
• Imperial War Museum has lots of images of Royal Navy ships. Crown Copyright expires after 50 years so most all World War I and II ship photos can be used.
• The London Gazette may prove useful for researching Royal Navy ships from 1665.

Soviet and Russian Navies

• The copyright statement on the Web pages of the Bellona Foundation ( http://www.bellona.no/ ) states "(c) BELLONA - Reuse and reprint recommended provided source is stated." That requirement is compatible with the GFDL's requirement that history be maintained, so their excellent material may be used without restriction.

French Marine Nationale

• http://www.netmarine.net/ authorisation is given by the team of "NetMarine" to use their photographs. Therefore, you can use the images of
  • JM. Roche
  • G. Rueda
  • F. Dubey
  • Y. Le Bris
  • A. Morcello.

Note that other images are likely to be copyrighted by the Marine Nationale and that no special authorisation has been granted as for now.

• Service Historique de la Marine
• Musée National de la Marine
• Shipscribe - French Navy ships 1816-59

Germany

Kriegsmarine

Kriegsmarine War Diaries, German Naval Staff Operations Division

							Aug 1939	Sep 1939	Oct 1939	Nov 1939	Dec 1939
Jan 1940	Feb 1940	Mar 1940	Apr 1940	May 1940	Jun 1940	Jul 1940	Aug 1940	Sep 1940	Oct 1940	Nov 1940	Dec 1940
Jan 1941	Feb 1941	Mar 1941	Apr 1941	May 1941	Jun 1941	Jul 1941	Aug 1941	Sep 1941	Oct 1941	Nov 1941	Dec 1941
Jan 1942	Feb 1942	Mar 1942	Apr 1942	May 1942	Jun 1942	Jul 1942	Aug 1942	Sep 1942	Oct 1942	Nov 1942	Dec 1942
Jan 1943	Feb 1943	Mar 1943	Apr 1943	May 1943	Jun 1943	Jul 1943	Aug 1943	Sep 1943	Oct 1943	Nov 1943	Dec 1943
Jan 1944	Feb 1944	Mar 1944	Apr 1944	May 1944	Jun 1944	Jul 1944	Aug 1944	Sep 1944	Oct 1944	Nov 1944	Dec 1944
Jan 1945	Feb 1945	Mar 1945	Apr 1945	May 1945

See also

• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Italy, 8 December 1941-30 June 1942
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Italy, 1 July 1942-31 December 1942
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Italy, 1 January 1943-30 June 1943

• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 8 January 1943 - 30 June 1943
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 1 July - 31 August 1943
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 1 September-15 October 1943
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 16 October-31 December 1943
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 1 January-31 March 1944
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway 16 May-15 July 1944
• War Diary of Captain U-Boats, Norway, 1 August-15 September 1944 and 1-15 October 1944

• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 16 December 1941 - 15 May 1942
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 16 May 1942 - 31 May 1942
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 June 1942 - 30 June 1942
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 October 1942 - 31 December 1942
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 January 1943 - 31 March 1943
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 April 1943 - 30 April 1943
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 16 May 1943 - 31 May 1943
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 September 1943 - 30 September 1943
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 October 1943 - 31 October 1943
• War Diary of Admiral, Black Sea, 1 November 1943 - 30 November 1943

• Log of "Ship 16" (Atlantis)

Netherlands

Royal Netherlands Navy

Colonial report by year

Overview of warships in the Dutch East Indies (in Dutch)

1860s
1870s		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
1900s	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910s	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920s	1920	1921	1922	1923
1930s

1860s
1870s		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
1900s	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910s	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920s	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924
1930s

State budget

Explanatory note (in Dutch)

1860s
1870s	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
1900s	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910s	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920s	1920, a					a
1930s

General overview of Dutch warships (in Dutch)

1860s
1870s	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897
1900s				1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910s	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920s	1920
1930s

Norway

• Merchant Fleet 1939-1945

Royal Norwegian Navy

• Facts & Figures: The Royal Norwegian Navy
• (in Norwegian)List of ships built by the main shipyard in Horten
• (in Norwegian)Norwegian Submarine flotilla history
• (in Norwegian)Befalsbladet 1/2004
• (in Norwegian)Royal Norwegian Navy history page
• (in Norwegian)Another Royal Norwegian Navy History page
• (in Norwegian)Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page at mil.no

Royal Australian Navy

• The Royal Australian Navy's Sea Power Centre has histories of all the former ships of the Royal Australian Navy. Note that these histories are covered by copyright and cannot be reproduced on Wikipedia without the permission of the RAN.
• The Australian War Memorial has photos of most RAN ships in its Collections Database. Photos taken prior to the early 1950s which have a copyright status of 'clear'. Permission must be obtained before reproducing more recent photos. The AWM also sells higher resolution versions of the photos in the database.
• The AWM also has the official histories of the RAN in WW1 and WW2 available online. Note that the AWM still holds the copyright to these publications and permission must be obtained before any elements of them are reproduced.

Other Navies

• Class listing of every ship in Brazilian service, past and present [1], in Portuguese. Probably reliable, as The ed17 has a 2012 academically published book that uses it as a reference.
• Official site of the Hellenic Navy [2] (Greek Navy)
• The History of Turkish Submarines ( http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/7704/index.html ) is a privately maintained website, well-organized, with good information. Wikipedia has no permission to copy; all rights are reserved.
• The Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy ( http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/ ) has excellent information about the title subject. Wikipedia has no permission to copy; all rights are reserved.
• Canadian Navy - web pages for current ships

WW2 ships

• uboat.net has databases of WW2 Allied warships and German U-boats.
• combinedfleet.com has tabular records of movement for many WW2 Japanese warships.
• uboatarchive.net World War II U-boats
• Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II (PDF). Washington D.C.: The Army Transportation Association. - Book on WWII troopships published in 1947.

Multiple Categories

• Parkes, Oscar; McMurtrie, Francis E., eds. (1929). Jane's Fighting Ships (33rd year of issue ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
• Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1954). Jane's Fighting Ships 1954–55. London: The McGraw Hill Book Company.
• Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1960). Jane's Fighting Ships 1960–61. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
• Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1966). Jane's Fighting Ships 1966–67. London: Jane's Fighting Ships Publishing Co.
• Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1969). Jane's Fighting Ships 1969–70. London: Jane's Fighting Ships Publishing Co.
• Blackman, Raymond V. B., ed. (1972). Jane's Fighting Ships 1972–73. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. SBN 07-032161-2.
• Moore, Capt. John E., ed. (1973). Jane's Fighting Ships 1973–74. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. SBN 07-032020-9.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1974). Jane's Fighting Ships 1974–75. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 0-531-02743-0.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1975). Jane's Fighting Ships 1975–76. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 0-531-03251-5.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1976). Jane's Fighting Ships 1976–77. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-531-03261-2.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1978). Jane's Fighting Ships 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-531-03297-3.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1979). Jane's Fighting Ships 1979–80. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-531-03913-7.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1980). Jane's Fighting Ships 1980–81. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers. ISBN 0-7106-0703-2.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1981). Jane's Fighting Ships 1981–82 (84th ed.). London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0728-8.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1982). Jane's Fighting Ships 1982–83. London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0742-3.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1986). Jane's Fighting Ships 1986–87 (89th ed.). London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0828-4.
• Moore, Capt. John, ed. (1987). Jane's Fighting Ships 1987–88 (90th ed.). London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0842-X.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (1990). Jane's Fighting Ships 1990–91 (93rd ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-0904-3.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (1991). Jane's Fighting Ships 1991–92 (94th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-0960-4.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (1994). Jane's Fighting Ships 1994–95 (97th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1161-7.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (1995). Jane's Fighting Ships 1995–96 (98th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1254-0.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (1996). Jane's Fighting Ships 1996–97 (99th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1355-5.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (2000). Jane's Fighting Ships 2000–2001 (103rd ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2018-7.
• Sharpe, Capt. Richard, ed. (2001). Jane's Fighting Ships 2001–2002 (104th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2315-1.
• Saunders, Commodore Stephen, ed. (2002). Jane's Fighting Ships 2002–2003 (105th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-2315-1.
• Saunders, Commodore Stephen, ed. (2002). Jane's Fighting Ships 2009–2010 (105th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0-710-62888-6.
• Trillo, Robert L, ed. (1991). Jane's High-Speed Marine Craft 1991 (24th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710609526.
• Trillo, Robert L, ed. (1993). Jane's High-Speed Marine Craft 1993-94 (26th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1071-8.
• Philips, Stephen J, ed. (1995). Jane's High-Speed Marine Craft 1995-96 (28th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1266-4.
• Philips, Stephen J, ed. (1995). Jane's High-Speed Marine Transportation 1996-97 (29th ed.). Surrey: Jane's Information Group. ISBN 0-7106-1370-9.
• Jon Eastham's photos are of Naval and Commercial Shipping seen around Portsmouth, UK, including the Trafalgar 200 International Naval Review. Jon has offered to upload low resolution (300px width) copies of his images under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike, upon request. Contact Jon on his talk page.
• International Journal of Naval History Mostly military, but also some merchant coverage.
• Maritime Digitaal - Belgian, Dutch and Luxemburgish vessels (in Dutch)
• Ship IMO Numbers

Merchant ships

Classification society databases

The following classification societies have public databases that can be used to find basic information, general characteristics etc. of merchant ships currently in service. Information about a ship's classification society can be found e.g. in Equasis.

• American Bureau of Shipping
• Bureau Veritas
• China Classification Society
• Croation Register of Shipping
• DNV GL (formerly Det Norske Veritas and Germanischer Lloyd)
• Korean Register
• Lloyd's Register (LR)
• Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK)
• Polish Register of Shipping
• Registro Italiano Navale (RINA)(Free registration required)
• Russian Maritime Register of Ships

When using the above databases, use the relevant citation templates, where available.

Other databases

• Miramar ship index has entries on over 250,000 merchant ships (subscription required; free 7-day trial) (no longer updated from 2022)
• Equasis, maintained by French Ministry for Transport, has a database of current - and some past - merchant ships (free registration required), many with direct link to current classification society database entry

Use the relevant citation templates when using the above databases.

Country specific sources

• Flotilla Australia
• State Records Authority of New South Wales Ships in Australian waters.
• Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
• Sino Ship News - Chinese shipping News since 2012
• Søfartens Bibliotek - Danish shipping accidents and incidents 1893 - 1996 (in Danish)
• J Marcussen's website - Danish merchant ships (in Danish)
• Goole-built or owned ships
• Shipbuilding on the River Tees - Tees-built ships
• Tyne-built ships
• East India Company ships
• Finnish Merchant Marine Database - ships registered in Finland
• Finnish-registered sailing ships
• DDG Hansa ships (in German)
• Dutch merchant ships (in Dutch)
• Stichting Maritiem Historiche Database Dutch site, Dutch and English language, Dutch merchant ships
• Zeesleepvart Dutch site, English language, Dutch salvage operations
• New Zealand Maritime Record
• Sjohistorie, Norwegian merchant vessels, many individual histories (In Norwegian)
• Infoflot - Russian merchant ships (in Russian).
• Aberdeen built ships
• Scottish-built ships
• Ships built by Harland & Wolff
• The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect
• British built ships
• - Pacific Marine Review - US ship news. Includes much information about individual ships and maritime affairs in the United States, as well as some coverage of foreign vessels. Copious photographs and images.

  1917 • 1918 • 1919 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929 • 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 * 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950

  • Milwaukee ships, shipbuilders, shipwrecks etc

Other useful sites

• Plimsoll ship data has copies of Lloyd's Register of Shipping covering 1930-45. A wealth of info there.
• American Bureau of Shipping (ABS - formerly American Shipmasters Association) is the U.S. equivalent of Lloyd's Register. Collections of their Record of American and Foreign Shipping, published from c.1867, are available at Hathi Trust (22 years between 1875 and 1922) and Mystic Seaport (29 years between 1871 and 1900).
• Johnson's Steam Vessels of the Atlantic Coast 1917 and Johnson's Steam Vessels of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts 1920. Snapshot of all merchant steamers active on stated American coasts in given year, arranged by owner. Somewhat similar level of detail to Lloyds/ABS.
• Maritime History of the Great Lakes. Archive of Great Lakes maritime-related news clippings and other resources.
• Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation - website providing ship and passenger searches, including ship and owner details and passenger manifests, for ships arriving at Ellis Island, New York Bay; registration required.
• Through Mighty Seas, details of ship from late 1700s to the First World War. Plenty of links to other sites
• The Ships List a wealth of info on passenger ships, shipping lines fleets etc.
• Lloyds registers on Google books incomplete 1799-1881 in US displays different set in GB.
• Civilian ships at History.navy.mil Lots and lots of high quality, public domain pictures of civilian ships.
• Lewis & Dryden's marine history of the Pacific Northwest full access on Google books published 1895
• NOAA merchant ship call signs (code letters) 1955-72)
• Mystic Seaport - Merchant ships 1857-1900
• Fakta om Fartyg is a large personal website about merchant vessels, mostly ferries and cargo ships (in Swedish).
• World Ship Society
  • Southampton Branch of the World Ship Society
• Greatships.net
• 7seasvessels - coasters worldwide
• Merchant Navy Nostalgia
• Merchant Navy Officers website
• Frostship (in Danish) - Scandinavian merchant ships
• Wrecksite Document Archive
• The Ship Scrapping List, updated almost daily, collects and combines information about ships that have been sold for recycling. However, the actual selling or beaching date is not given and should be verified from another source, e.g. Equasis or ship demolition reports.
• Robin des Bois also publishes information about scrapped ships.
• ShipSpotting.com contains 3M+ user-submitted photographs of ships as well as some database-derived information.
• J Marcussen (in Danish] merchant ships
• American Sternwheel Association boat directory
• Convoyweb - Allied and Neutral ships that participated in Allied convoys

Immigrant ships

• Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources: Ships

Shipwrecks

• Australian National Shipwrecks Database
• Encyclopedia of Australian shipwrecks
• Belgian shipwrecks (in Dutch)
• Naufragios do Brasil (in Portuguese)
• Anegada shipwrecks A-F
• Anegada shipwrecks G-R
• Anegada shipwrecks S-Z
• Canadian shipwrecks
• / Shipwreckworld - Great Lakes shipwrecks
• Cape Verde shipwrecks
• Vragguiden Danish shipwrecks (in Danish)
• Estonian shipwreck register
• Hylyt.net Finnish shipwrecks (in Finnish)
• French shipwrecks (in French)
• Irish shipwrecks
• Irish Wreck Online
• Japanese WWII merchant ship losses 1941-45)
• Norwegian merchant vessels lost 1906-78 (in Norwegian)
• Swedish merchant ships lost during WWI and WWII
• Shipwrecks around the United Kingdom
• Board of Trade accident reports 1876-1980
• United States
  • New Jersey shipwrecks
• Mareud website Info on Merchant and Naval casualties 1946-99.
• Maritime casualties
• Shipwrecks 1988-2009 (in German)
• Shipwrecklog - Shipwrecks worldwide
• Wrecksite news from around the world
• Shipwrecks off Alaska's Coast (database or table)
• Baltic Sea shipwrecks
• Lloyd's List 1741 - 1826
• Nordic Underwater Archaeology shipwreck database
• Maritime shipwrecks - over 500 shipwreck with photos.
• Sunken Ships of the Second World War

Raw Dump

The links were copied from another site and have not been verified as useful. Caveat nautilus. Wikipedia has no permission to copy from any of these sites; all rights are reserved.

Submarines - General

• http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Military/Navy/Submarines/ - Yahoo: Submarine Web Sites - Links to official sites, unofficial sites, active submarines as well as historic and museum subs.
• http://www.rontini.com/ - Ron Martini's Submarine World Network- One of the largest collections of submarine links on the Internet.
• http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html - Submarine Plans - A survey of historical submersible and submarine drawings, from Alexander the Great's glass diving bell to modern nuclear-powered submarines

Submarines - U.S.

• http://www.momsen.org - Momsen.org - Page dedicated to the "Father of Submarine Rescue", Charles Bowers "Swede" Momsen and maintained by his granddaughter. Requires Internet Explorer; unusable with any other browser.

Submarines - other countries

• http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/ - Royal Navy Submarine Museum - now defunct archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20040830023608/http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/welcome.htm
• http://www.dolphin.org.il - Israeli Submarines - Extensive information on INS Dakar, an online memorial to all fallen Israeli submariners, and home to The Dolphin Israeli Submariners' Association

Naval Links

• http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk - The Royal Navy - Official Web Site - Good historical and current fleet information.
• http://www.noac-national.ca/noac/ - The Naval Officer's Association of Canada - The premier Canadian organization for naval professionals.

Clipper ship and merchant sail sources

Citations for cut-and-pasting

Clipper websites and full text

• Bruzelius, Lars. "North American Clipper Ships". The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
• Bruzelius, Lars. "British Tea Clippers". The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
• The Era of the Clipper Ships, illustrated Web narrative of clipper development
• Clark, Arthur H. (1910). The Clipper Ship Era, An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843-1869. Camden, ME: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. ISBN 9780598281166.
• "Vessels/Voyages That Delivered Locomotives to California and Oregon, 1850-1869, Listed in Order of Arrival". Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. 2002.
• Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890, digitized source materials from Mystic Seaport and Library of Congress American Memory

Clipper books

• Bruzelius, Lars. "Clipper Ships Bibiliography". The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
• Crothers, William L (1997). The American-built clipper ship, 1850-1856 : characteristics, construction, and details. Camden, ME: International Marine. ISBN 0070145016. -- Comprehensive reference on the design and construction of American-built clipper ships. Contains numerous drawings, diagrams, and charts, with examples of how each design feature varies in different ships.
• Cutler, Carl C. (1960). Greyhounds of the Sea. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute.
• Howe, Octavius T; Matthews, Frederick C. (1986). American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume 1, Adelaide-Lotus (reprint of 1926-1927 ed.). New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486251158.
• Howe, Octavius T; Matthews, Frederick C. (1927). American Clipper Ships 1833-1858. Volume 2, Malay-Young Mechanic. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society. ISBN 9780486251165.
• Lubbock, Basil (1984). The China clippers. The Century seafarers. London: Century. ISBN 9780712603416.
• Lubbock, Basil (1967) [1933]. The Opium Clippers. Boston, MA: Charles E. Lauriat Co. OCLC 558518.

Merchant sail web

• The Ships List, passenger lists, descriptions, linkable copyrighted pictures of ships
• Bruzelius, Lars. "Ships". The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
• Mystic Seaport Digital Library, Many digitized documents
• National Maritime Digital Library "American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database."

Merchant sail books

• Primary Maritime References list
• Fairburn, William Armstrong; Ritchie, Ethel M. (1992). Merchant Sail. Salem, MA: Higgson Book Co.
• Matthews, Frederick C (1987). American merchant ships, 1850-1900. Series I. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486255385.
• Gleason, Hall (1937). Old Ships and Ship-Building Days of Medford. Medford, MA: J.C. Miller.

Indexes

• Shipindex.org, Includes indexes to books and WorldCat books about ships; paid version cross-references Lloyd's Register
• Index to David R. MacGregor, Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875 Naval Institute Press, 1988 ISBN 0-87021-895-6, at Library of Congress
• Mystic Seaport Digital Library, Lloyd's Register, Yacht Registers, Record of American and Foreign Shipping
• Tacoma Public Library, Ships and Shipping Database, More than 13,000 individual index records on ships built on the Pacific Coast and ships with a connection to the Pacific Northwest.

Images

WP:PDI - Public Domain Images.

Newspaper sources

Further information: WP:LOONA

• The Times Archive (subscription required, but may be accessible free of charge for UK editors who have a library card via their library's website). A wealth of info on merchant and naval ships and Wikinotable people between 1785 and 2008.
• National Library of Singapore. English language newspapers published in Malaya and Singapore between 1831 and 2006.
• Victoria Daily Colonist—Includes Pacific Northwest shipping. Often slow to download. Appears to cover dates 1858–1910
• California Digital Newspaper Collection (1849–1920)
• Library of Congress—American newspapers 1836–1922
• Historic Oregon Newspapers (1846–2020)
• New Zealand newspapers 1839–1945
• Australian newspapers from 1803–1954 and millions of other Australian documents at the National Library of Australia's website.
• Irish newspapers C18th–C20th
• Lloyd's List (1741–1825); news items indexed (1740–1837)
• Delpher Kranten, Dutch newspapers from 1618–1995 (in Dutch)
• Dominican Republic newspapers (1961–1970) (in Spanish)
• Swedish newspapers (in Swedish)

Shipping Registers

Merchant Vessels of the United States

The official annual list of merchant vessels registered in the United States. In addition to merchant vessels, editions typically include federal government ships of all types, including naval vessels, as well as private yachts. More information on individual ships was included over the passage of time; from the 1905-06 edition on, for example, a list of vessels lost during the year, along with the reason for the loss, was recorded. The 1936 edition in particular includes some unique data, such as a list of ships by shipbuilder for all ships built on or after 1900.

• On Hathitrust:
  • University of California - includes the 1867–68 edition plus most years between 1885 and 1935;
  • University of Michigan - a selection of years from 1888 to 1989.
  • Ohio State University - most years from 1924 to 1977, supplements only thereafter, to 1982; includes a complete list of editions for the 1940s.
• On Google:
  • [3] - full views 1874-1913, 1920, incomplete, 1913 edition with part 6 (usually separate) bound together, separate pagination: Part 2 p. 149 and Part 6 p49; 1915 variant title. B

American Lloyd's

Insurance register. Unlike Merchant Vessels of the United States, the American Lloyd's register for much of its history was not a comprehensive list of American-registered ships. It does however also include some foreign-built vessels, and often contains more information, or different information, on individual ships to that recorded in MVUS. It was known as New York Marine Register in 1857-1858.

1850s								1857	1858	1859
1860s		1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
1870s	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883

Record of American and Foreign Shipping

1870s		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s		1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
1900s	1900

Bureau Veritas

• BV Registers per year (in French).

1820s										1829
1830s	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839
1840s	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849
1850s	1850	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859
1860s	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
1870s	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899
1900s	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909
1910s	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914

Lloyd's Registers

• Lloyd's Register of ships, per year.
• History of the first 50 years of Lloyd's Register

1760s	-	-	-	-	1764	-	-	-	1768	-
1770s	-	-	-	-	-	-	1776	1777	1778	1779
1780s	1780	1781	1782	1783	1784	-	1786	1787	1788	1789
1790s	1790	1791	1792	1793	1794	1795	1796	1797	1798	1799
1800s	1800	1801	1802	1803	1804	1805	1806	1807	1808	1809
1810s	1810	1811	1812	1813	1814	1815	1816	1817	1818	1819
1820s	1820	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829
1830s	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839
1840s	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849
1850s	1850	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859
1860s	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
1870s	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879
1880s	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
1890s	1890	-	1892 SS 1892 Sail	1893 SS 1893 Sail	1894 SS 1894 Sail	-	1896 Sail	1897 SS 1897 Sail	1898 SS 1898 Sail	1899 SS 1899 Sail
1900s	1900 SS 1900 Sail	1901 SS 1901 Sail	1902 SS 1902 Sail	1903 SS 1903 Sail	1904 SS 1904 Sail	1905 SS 1905 Sail	1906 SS 1906 Sail	1907 SS 1907 Sail	1908 SS 1908 Sail	1909 SS 1909 Sail
1910s	-	1911 SS 1911 Sail	1912 SS 1912 Sail	1913 SS 1913 Sail	- 1914 Sail	1915 SS 1915 Sail	- 1916 Sail	- 1917 Sail	1918 SS 1918 Sail	- 1919 Sail
1920s	1920 SS 1920 Sail	-	1922 SS 1922 Sail	1923 SS 1923 Sail	1924 SS 1924 Sail	1925 SS 1925 Sail	- 1926 Sail	1927 SS 1927 Sail	1928 SS -	1929 SS -
1930s				1933 SS	1934 SS		1936 SS			1939 Sail
1940s		1941 SS					1946 Sail	1947 SS 1947 Sail		1949 A-L 1949 M-Z
1950s	1950 A-L 1950 M-Z		1952 A-L 1952 M-Z	1953 A-L 1953 M-Z	1954 A-L M-Z	1955 A-L 1955 M-Z	1956		1958	1959
1960s	1960							1967 A-L	1968 A-L 1968 M-Z	1969 A-L 1969 M-Z
1970s		1971 A-L	1972 A-L		1974 A-L 1974 M-Z	1975 A-L 1975 M-Z	1976 A-L 1976 M-Z	1977 A-L	1978 A-L	1979 A-K 1979 L-Z
1980s	1980 A-K 1980 L-Z	1981 A-G 1981 H-O 1981 P-Z	1982 A-G 1982 H-O 1982 P-Z	1983 A-G 1983 H-O 1983 P-Z	1984 A-G 1984 H-O 1984 P-Z	1985 A-G 1095 H-O 1985 P-Z	1986 A-G 1986 H-O 1986 P-Z	1987 A-G 1987 H-O 1987 P-Z	1988 A-G 1988 H-O 1988 P-Z	1989 A-G 1989 H-O 1989 P-Z
1990s	1990 A-G 1990 H-O 1990 P-Z	1991 A-G 1991 H-O 1991 P-Z	1992 A-G 1992 H-O 1992 P-Z	1993 A-G 1993 P-Z	1994 A-G 1994 P-Z

• Register of Yachts, 1902
• Plimsoll shipdata - Lloyd's Register entries covering 1930-45, with some coverage of 1946. Searchable by name of ship.

Danmarks skibslist

• Danish Registers per year (in Danish).

1860s										1869
1870s		1871	1872	1873	1874	1875			1878
1880s				1883		1885		1887	1888
1890s		1891		1893		1895		1897		1899
1900s		1901		1903		1905		1907		1909
1910s		1911		1913		1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
1920s	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929
1930s	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
1940s	1940	1941	1942		1944		1946		1948	1949
1950s	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960s	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
1970s	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1980s	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1990s	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000s	2000	2001	2002

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