Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/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

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 The original site is no longer active, however its contents are available here.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

Netherlands

Norway

• Merchant Fleet 1939-1945

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 , 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 (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

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)
• s:ru:Chronicle of shipwrecks and fires of the Russian fleet 1713–1853 (1855) (in Russian)
• s:ru:Chronicle of wrecks and other disastrous incidents of warships of the Russian fleet (1874) (in Russian)
• 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

Lloyd's Casualty Returns

Raw Dump

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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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• "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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• 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.

Merchant Vessels of the United States

The official annual list of merchant vessels registered in the United States. As well as 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 Hyperwar:
  • – every year from 1895 to 1939, and from 1941 to 1965.
• 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:
  • - 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.

Record of American and Foreign Shipping

Bureau Veritas

• BV Registers per year (in French).

Lloyd's Registers

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

• 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).