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Aberdeen Built Ships
Information about  3,000 recorded ships built in Aberdeen since 1811.
 
Australian Register of Historic Vessels
Register of vessels of all types and sizes built up to 1965 which are relevant to Australia’s maritime heritage.

British Shipbuilding Database

 It records data on some 80000 ships, mostly over 2500 tons, built or engined in the British Isles from the mid 19th century to the present.

Board of Trade Wreck Reports 1876-1951
Transcripts and images of the original reports for 1876-1894, and 1926-1951.

Canadian Ship Information Database
Information about ships that were registered in Canadian ports or sailed in Canadian waters. Searchable by vessel, master, owner, builder or voyages.

Clyde Built Ships Database
Online database containing the records of about 20,000 ships built on the Clyde.

Connecticut Ships Database 1789-1939
Contains not only information about the ships but also all the people associated with them , whether a captain, an owner, a Builder or surveyor, depending upon who was listed on the original records.

Current Ship Movements (AIS)
Vessel movements in real time from around the UK.  Including maps tracking individual ships,their statistics and photos.

Customs Registers
Locations of Customs Registers in the UK.

Exeter Local Maritime Project
A searchable online database of references to records  with maritime & naval  significance that are held in local record offices and other archives across
England and Wales.

Fleetwood Motor Trawlers
Dedicated to the Fleetwood fishing industry
and the motor trawlers that sailed from the port. Includes a database of vessels with photographs and technical details.

Shipping Company Fleet Lists/Histories

Albyn Line
Alfred Holt
Alfred Holt & Co - a History
Anchor Line

Athel Line

Blue Star Line
British India Steam Navigation Company
Brocklebank Line

Canadian Pacific
Clan Line

Coast Lines

Court Line

Cunard


Elder Dempster
Elders & Fyffes

Furness Withy

Harrison Line

Isle of Man Steam Packet

Lamport & Holt

New Zealand Shipping Co. 

P & O
Hartlepool Built
Details of every ship built in Hartlepool & West Hartlepool from the c1830 to c1960. Information on each ship varies but where possible includes ship specifications, owners, Masters, crew lists, photographs and plans .

Leith Shipyards
In particular Henry Robb, shipbuilders.

Lloyd's List marine news 1740 - 1837
Lloyd's List has been the leading daily newspaper for the maritime world for more than 250 years In particular it records the movements of ships, marine news of
casualties, ‘speakings’ and other events involving individual vessels.

Lloyd's Registers 
This incomplete sequence of 18th & 19th Century volumes were scanned by Google. They have the advantage of being searchable and so it is possible to look for masters, owners etc.

Mariners & Ships in Australian Waters
Searchable databases of ships, masters, crew and passengers mostly transcribed from the State Records of New South Wales.

Maryport Sailing Ship Index
Histories of merchant sailing ships that were built or owned in Maryport.

National Register of Historic Vessels
Includes details of designer, builder, dimensions, construction, propulsion, service history, current location and ownership, as well as photographs of many of the vessels.

Scottish Shipping Registers
Registers of Dumfries & Annan (1824 to 1904), Kirkcudbright (1824 to 1841), Stranraer (1824 to 1908) and Wigtown (1836 to 1920).

Shipping Company Records Guide
Shipping companies whose records, or part-records, are held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. These are mainly business records and do not cover operations, voyages or passenger lists.

The Ships List
Well established site with transcriptions of passenger lists, immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more.

Ship Plans
Database of plans held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Whitehaven Sailing Ship Index
Histories of merchant sailing ships that were built or owned in Whitehaven.

War Related Records

Allied Warships WWll
Database of all allied warships in WWll. Includes a comprehensive. if incomplete, listing of fighting ships lost.

Dunkirk Little Ships
Includes photographs and a listing of the ships their specifications and history.

Merchant Shipping (WWll) Movement Records
Data includes the name of the ship, any former name it had, its size (tonnage), to whom it was registered, the ship's destination, date of arrival and occasionally ports of call. Also any cargo carried on board as well as recording if the ship was torpedoed, mined, damaged or sunk during the war.

Norwegian War Medals (World War Two)

Royal Naval Museum Information SheetsRoyal Naval Reserve Officers (1939-1945)


Convoys

1st Canadian Convoy WW1

Convoy Routing Codes

Convoy Web

Malta Convoys

Russian Convoys

Ships in Atlantic Convoys

UBoat.Net
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