Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Sources

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

• 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.

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 The original site is no longer active, however its contents are available here.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

• 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.

• 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

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)

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

Explanatory note (in Dutch)

General overview of Dutch warships (in Dutch)

• Merchant Fleet 1939-1945

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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
• Croatian 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.

• 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.

• Flotilla Australia^{[dead link]}
• 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)
• Allen Jensens' website - Danish merchant ships (in Danish)
• Goole-built or owned ships
• Tees-built ships, database by the Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust
• Tyne-built ships, database by the Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust
• Wear-built ships, database by the Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust
• 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, database by the Caledonian Maritime Research Trust
• Mercantile Navy List – a registry of all merchant ships registered in the UK, Dominions, and Empire, published annually by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. The Crew List Index Project has digitised early every year from 1857 to 1940, plus the final edition of 1947.
• Ships built by Harland & Wolff
• The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect
• British- and Irish-built ships
• Marine Engineering News. • Apr 1879 • May 1879 • Jun 1879 • Jul 1879 • Aug 1879 • Sep 1879 • Oct 1879 • Nov 1879 • Dec 1879 • Jan 1880 • Feb 1880 • Mar 1880 • Apr 1880 • May 1880 • Jun 1880 • Jul 1880 • Aug 1880 • Sep 1880 • Oct 1880 • Nov 1880 • Dec 1880 • Jan 1881 • Feb 1881 • Mar 1881 • Apr 1881 • May 1881 • Jun 1881 • Jul 1881 • Aug 1881 • Sep 1881 • Oct 1881 • Nov 1881 • Dec 1881 • Jan 1882 • Feb 1882 • Mar 1882 • Apr 1882 • May 1882 • Jun 1882 • Jul 1882 • Aug 1882 • Sep 1882 • Oct 1882 • Nov 1882 • Dec 1882 • Jan 1883 • Feb 1883 • Mar 1883
• - US Department of Commerce, Annual List Merchant Vessels of the United States 1895–1965 (incomplete)
• - 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

• Plimsoll ship data has copies of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for every year from 1930 to 1945. Now web-hosted by Southampton City Council.
• Lloyd's Register of Shipping Heritage & Education Centre has the Register online 1764–1994 (incomplete), as well as Yacht Registers 1878–2001, Quarterly Casualty Returns 1890-2000
• Lloyd's Register of Shipping on Google Books incomplete from 1799 to 1881. In US displays different set in GB.
• 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 Lloyd's/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.^{[dead link]}
• 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^{[dead link]}
• 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 Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources: Ships

• 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

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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

Citations for cut-and-pasting

• 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

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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, 1988ISBN 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.

WP:PDI - Public Domain Images.

• 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)

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:
  • [3] – 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:
  • [4] - 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

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.

• BV Registers per year (in French).

• 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.

• Danish Registers per year (in Danish).

• Mjroots (talk) - Willing to assist with requests for info from The Times. Requests via my talk page please.