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links to the site's search page for vessel details. We provide customized search facilities for most web sites on our vessel
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| Books Boxes and Boats | ![]() | Comprehensive and clear list of links to maritime history resources | |
| ConvoyWeb | ![]() | Merchant shipping during World War 2, including details of convoys. Includes other useful information on earlier vessels. | |
| Cyndi's List | ![]() | The major links site for genealogists. Recently refurbished with a good selection of maritime links. | |
| Mariners | ![]() | The site for the Mariners mailing list with a huge amount of useful information.To join the Mariners mailing list, send a message to: Mariners-L-request@rootsweb.com with the ONE word SUBSCRIBE. | |
| Maritime Timetable Images | ![]() | ![]() | Images of timetables for shipping companies dating back to the early 1900s. |
| Miramar | ![]() | ![]() | Subscription site with details of larger steam and motor vessels world-wide. |
| Naval-History.net | ![]() | ![]() | Site with much detail on naval vessels which also includes some details of British merchant vessels lost in WW1 |
| PortCities UK | ![]() | ![]() | Gateway to maritime heritage sites for Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and Southampton, with much general maritime information as well. The Southampton site has useful guidance on Lloyds Register and the Merchant Navy List. |
| The Red Duster | ![]() | Part of the Merchant Navy Association web site. It includes historical details particularly of shipping lines. | |
| The Ships List | ![]() | Masses of information, concentrating on passenger vessels and passenger lists. | |
| The Wreck Site | ![]() | ![]() | Claims to be the world's largest online wreck database. |
| uboat.net | ![]() | ![]() | Comprehensive details of WW2 U-boats, but also details of all Allied ships attacked |
| WorldCat | ![]() | ![]() | WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 10,000 libraries which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative |
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Maritime History Archive ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | The Maritime History Archive collects and preserves documents relating to maritime history and holds 70% of the crew lists for British ports. |
| The National Archives | ![]() | ![]() | The National Archives is home to millions of documents, files and images including extensive maritime records. |
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| Access to Archives (A2A) | ![]() | ![]() | A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales . |
| Archives Wales | ![]() | ![]() | Archives Wales's online catalogue provides searchable information about more than 7,000 collections of historical records in the holdings of 21 archives in Wales |
| Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) | ![]() | ![]() | Provides a range of technological facilities for Canadian Museums |
| Ellis Island | ![]() | Information about the gateway to America for countless migrants, including databases of personal names and the immigrant ships. | |
| Fishing Boat Heritage | ![]() | ![]() | Details of fishing vessels - mainly Scottish |
| Irish Mariners | ![]() | An index of nearly 25,000 Irish born merchant seamen drawn from the CR10 seamens record cards at Southampton Records Office | |
| Irish Shipwrecks | ![]() | ![]() | Irish Shipwrecks provides maritime researchers and wreck divers with information on shipwrecks in Irish Coastal Waters, with a searchable database of wrecks from 2 World Wars, ocean liners and numerous casualties from 1750 onwards. |
| Library and Archives Canada | ![]() | Databases include immigration vessels and their passengers lists. | |
| Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters | ![]() | ![]() | Searchable database of records of ships, mariners and passengers arriving in New South Wales. |
| National Archives of Australia | ![]() | ![]() | Australian government records, including shipping registers for Austalian ports and passenger arrivals |
| New Zealand Maritime Index | ![]() | A comprehensive index of vessels, people and organisations referred to in books and publications. | |
| RCAHMS | ![]() | ![]() | The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland site includes the Canmore database which includes wrecks in Scottish waters. |
| RCAHMW | ![]() | ![]() | The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales site includes the Coflein database which includes wrecks in the waters around Wales. |
| Scottish Archive Network | ![]() | ![]() | The project aims to provide a single electronic catalogue to the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives. |
| The Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project (ELMAP) | ![]() | ![]() | ELMAP has created a searchable online database of references to records with maritime and naval significance that are held in local record offices and other archives across England and Wales. |
| Welsh Mariners | ![]() | Dr Reg Davies' site has an index of 23,000 Welsh Master Mariners. |
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| Australian National Maritime Museum | ![]() | Site includes details of digital resources including copies of MNL and the Register of Australian and New Zealand Shipping | |
| Mystic Seaport | ![]() | ![]() | The premier American maritime museum. The site includes several databases which are useful for researchers into British shipping. |
| National Maritime Museum | ![]() | The major British maritime museum so this site is a mine of information including useful research guides. |
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| Dumfries and Galloway Shipping Registers | ![]() | ![]() | A searchable database of the Shipping Registers of Dumfries (1824 to 1904), Kirkcudbright (1824 to 1841), Stranraer (1824 to 1908) and Wigtown (1836 to 1920) |
| Hull History Centre | ![]() | ![]() | Search the online catalogues for Hull City Archives, Local Studies Library and the University Archives from one site, including Hull fishing vessels and their crews. |
| Medway Council City Ark | ![]() | ![]() | Online catalogue for Medway Council Archives Service with details of their holdings of crew lists and shipping registers, including images of shipping registers for Rochester. |
| North East Lincolnshire Council | ![]() | ![]() | Online catalogue includes Grimsby crew lists, searchable by personal name and vessel name. |
| Somerset Heritage Centre | ![]() | ![]() | Site includes a database of entries from Bridgwater crew lists, searchable by personal name or ship's name. |
| State Records Authority of New South Wales | ![]() | ![]() | Shipping records include index of arrivals at Sydney 1837 - 1925 |
| Tyne and Wear Archives Service | ![]() | Online catalogue includes a partial (1863 to 1880) catalogue of their holdings of crew lists, searchable by personal name and vessel name. |
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| Aberdeen Built Ships | ![]() | ![]() | Records of 3,000 ships built in Aberdeen since 1811 and related objects held at Aberdeen Maritime Museum. |
| Berwick Shipyard | ![]() | ![]() | Details of shipbuilding at Berwick-on-Tweed from 1751 to 1979. |
| Bob Sanders Maritime Site | ![]() | Glamorgan shipping. It also has much useful maritime information, and an extended list of links. | |
| Brixham Sailing Trawlers Archive | ![]() | ![]() | Details of all sailing trawlers registered in Brixham |
| Cardiff Mariners | ![]() | ![]() | Bryan Richards' other site has 2,000 entries from Cardiff crew lists and records of Cardiff vessels. |
| Clydebuilt | ![]() | ![]() | Part of the Clydesite web site, detailing ships built on the Clyde. |
| Fleetwood Online Archive of Trawlers (FLOAT) | ![]() | ![]() | Images, details and stories relating to trawlers from Fleetwood, Grimsby, Hull and many other European ports. |
| Grimsby Trawlers | ![]() | Details of Grimsby trawlers, skippers and owners. | |
| Gwynedd Maritime Database | ![]() | Robert Dafydd Cadwalader's personal site - Porthmadog ships particularly. | |
| Hearts of Oak | ![]() | Part of Raymond Forward's site with much maritime information, including lists of Cornish shipping registers, fishing registers and crew lists. | |
| London Lighterage Tugs | ![]() | ![]() | Lists details of many of the tugs employed in the London lighterage industry. |
| Milford Trawlers | ![]() | ![]() | Details and images of the trawlers and men who sailed from Milford. |
| Rhiw | ![]() | Includes lots of details and photos of shipping and seafarers relating to Llyn, North Wales. | |
| Shipbuilding on the River Tees | ![]() | ![]() | Details of ships built on the river Tees |
| Shipping of Goole | ![]() | ![]() | Records of ships owned or built in Goole |
| Shoreham History Portal | ![]() | ![]() | An index of ships built and registered in Shoreham from mediaeval times to the 20th century |
| Swansea Mariners | ![]() | ![]() | Bryan Richards' site has 80,000 entries from Swansea crew lists and records of Swansea vessels. |
| Thames Tugs | ![]() | ![]() | Thames tugs from 1833 to 2010. |
| The Sunderland Site | ![]() | ![]() | Sunderland shipping and shipbuilders. |
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| P&O Heritage | ![]() | ![]() | P&O official site, with details of 2,5000 ships and an excellent links page |
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| Cambrian Index | ![]() | ![]() | Index of the Cambrian, South Wales Daily Post and the Western Mail from which a Ships and Shipping classification can be selected. |
| PapersPast | ![]() | ![]() | Over a million digitised images of New Zealand newspapers courtesy of the National Library of New Zealand including shipping news. |
| Trove - Australian newspapers | ![]() | ![]() | Searchable images of Australian Newspapers from 1803 to 1954 which includes shipping movements and other maritime information. |
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| Historical Collections of the Great Lakes | ![]() | ![]() | Material relating to the Great Lakes, including on-line databases of shipping, ports and people. |
| Old Ship Picture Galleries | ![]() | ![]() | A large collection of ship pictures dating back into the nineteenth century |
| Paddle Steamer Picture Gallery | ![]() | ![]() | A gallery of pictures of paddle steamers in British coastal waters |
| Passenger and Emigrant Ships to New Zealand and Australia | ![]() | ![]() | Index of pictures of sailing vessels with New Zealand and Australian connections. |