Web sites relating to maritime records
Web sites relating to maritime records Links to maritime web sites
These are links to selected sites which may be helpful. The links refer to the most appropriate page, not necessarily the home page for the site.
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General
Books Boxes and Boats
Details of the Southern Whale Fishery, 1775 to 1859, with databases of voyages and crew
Merchant shipping during World War 2, including details of convoys. Includes other useful information on earlier vessels.
The major links site for genealogists. Recently refurbished with a good selection of maritime links.
A wonderful collections of images and ephemera, many relating to shipping and immigration.
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.
Images of timetables for shipping companies dating back to the early 1900s.
Site with much detail on naval vessels which also includes some details of British merchant vessels lost in WW1
Part of the Port Cities Southampton web site, with images of Lloyds Register from 1930 to 1945.
Gateway to maritime heritage sites for Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and Southampton. The Southampton site has useful guidance on Lloyds Register and the Mercantile Navy List.
British Merchant Navy Cadet Training Ships - WWII to the 1970s, but includes a useful historical summary from 1673.
Part of the Merchant Navy Association web site. It includes historical details particularly of shipping lines.
Details of the training ships which prepared boys for the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 10,000 libraries which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative
Transcripts and images of the Board of Trade enquiries into accidents affecting British registered ships.
Archives
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 is home to millions of documents, files and images including extensive maritime records.
National
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
Information about the gateway to America for countless migrants, including databases of personal names and the immigrant ships.
Publish transcripts from crew lists for 1851 held in BT98 at TNA, available on CD or online.
An index of nearly 25,000 Irish born merchant seamen drawn from the CR10 seamens record cards at Southampton Records Office
Irish Shipwrecks provides maritime researchers and wreck divers with information on shipwrecks in Irish Coastal Waters, with a searchable database of wrecks.
Searchable database of records of ships, mariners and passengers arriving in New South Wales.
Australian government records, including shipping registers for Austalian ports and passenger arrivals
A comprehensive index of vessels, people and organisations referred to in books and publications.
Historic England's web site presents information from the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) for 420,000 sites, including wrecks in the waters around England
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland site includes the Canmore database which includes wrecks in Scottish waters.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales site includes the Coflein database which includes wrecks in the waters around Wales.
The project aims to provide a single electronic catalogue to the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives.
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.
Museums
The site includes details of digital resources including copies of MNL and the Register of Australian and New Zealand Shipping
The premier American maritime museum. The site includes several databases which are useful for researchers into British shipping.
The major British maritime museum so this site is a mine of information including useful research guides.
The South Australian Maritime Museum's superb site with details of passengers, ships and ships logs.
Local record offices and libraries
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)
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.
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.
Online catalogue includes Grimsby crew lists, searchable by personal name and vessel name.
Site includes a database of entries from Bridgwater crew lists, searchable by personal name or ship's name.
Shipping records include index of arrivals at Sydney 1837 - 1925
Part of the Friends of Dundee City Archives web site, with details of the Dundee-based whaling industry, 1756 to 1920
Online catalogue includes a partial (1863 to 1880) catalogue of their holdings of crew lists, searchable by personal name and vessel name.
Local
Records of 3,000 ships built in Aberdeen since 1811 and related objects held at Aberdeen Maritime Museum.
Glamorgan shipping. It also has much useful maritime information, and an extended list of links.
Images, details and stories relating to trawlers from Fleetwood, Grimsby, Hull and many other European ports.
Details of Hartlepool ship, shipbuilding and shipwrecks. Includes image of shipping register entries, 1845-1855
Part of Raymond Forward's site with much maritime information, including lists of Cornish shipping registers, fishing registers and crew lists.
An index of ships built and registered in Shoreham from mediaeval times to the 20th century
Bryan Richards' site has 108,000 entries from Swansea crew lists and records of Swansea vessels.
Run by the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust, providing details of Fleetwood trawlers
Shipping companies
Includes details of ships operated by the various north-eastern railway companies
Newspapers
Index of the Cambrian, South Wales Daily Post and the Western Mail from which a Ships and Shipping classification can be selected.
Over a million digitised images of New Zealand newspapers courtesy of the National Library of New Zealand including shipping news.
Searchable images of Australian Newspapers from 1803 to 1954 which includes shipping movements and other maritime information.
Searchable images of Welsh newspapers 1804-1919, which include shipping movements at Welsh ports.
Pictures
Material relating to the Great Lakes, including on-line databases of shipping, ports and people.
Index of pictures of sailing vessels with New Zealand and Australian connections.
