Jump to content

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Sources

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main Project Page Talk
Things you can do
Information and sources

Sources

[edit]

United States Navy

[edit]

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

Ship types

[edit]
  • 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.

Royal Navy

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]
  • 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.

Germany

[edit]

Kriegsmarine

[edit]
Kriegsmarine War Diaries, German Naval Staff Operations Division
Aug 1939 Sep 1939 Oct 1939 Nov 1939 Dec 1939
Jan 1940 Feb 1940 Mar 1940 Apr 1940 May 1940 Jun 1940 Jul 1940 Aug 1940 Sep 1940 Oct 1940 Nov 1940 Dec 1940
Jan 1941 Feb 1941 Mar 1941 Apr 1941 May 1941 Jun 1941 Jul 1941 Aug 1941 Sep 1941 Oct 1941 Nov 1941 Dec 1941
Jan 1942 Feb 1942 Mar 1942 Apr 1942 May 1942 Jun 1942 Jul 1942 Aug 1942 Sep 1942 Oct 1942 Nov 1942 Dec 1942
Jan 1943 Feb 1943 Mar 1943 Apr 1943 May 1943 Jun 1943 Jul 1943 Aug 1943 Sep 1943 Oct 1943 Nov 1943 Dec 1943
Jan 1944 Feb 1944 Mar 1944 Apr 1944 May 1944 Jun 1944 Jul 1944 Aug 1944 Sep 1944 Oct 1944 Nov 1944 Dec 1944
Jan 1945 Feb 1945 Mar 1945 Apr 1945 May 1945
See also

Netherlands

[edit]
Colonial report by year
[edit]

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

1860s
1870s 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923
1930s
1860s
1870s 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
1930s
State budget
[edit]

Explanatory note (in Dutch)

1860s
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920, a a
1930s

General overview of Dutch warships (in Dutch)

1860s
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
1900s 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920
1930s

Norway

[edit]

Royal Australian Navy

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]

WW2 ships

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]

Merchant ships

[edit]

Classification society databases

[edit]

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.

When using the above databases, use the relevant citation templates, where available.

Other databases

[edit]
  • 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.

Country specific sources

[edit]

Other useful sites

[edit]

Immigrant ships

[edit]

Shipwrecks

[edit]

Raw Dump

[edit]

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.

Submarines - General

[edit]

Submarines - U.S.

[edit]
  • 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.

Submarines - other countries

[edit]
[edit]

Clipper ship and merchant sail sources

[edit]

Citations for cut-and-pasting

Clipper websites and full text

[edit]

Clipper books

[edit]
  • 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.
  • 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

[edit]

Merchant sail books

[edit]

Indexes

[edit]

Images

[edit]

WP:PDI - Public Domain Images.

Newspaper sources

[edit]

Shipping Registers

[edit]

Merchant Vessels of the United States

[edit]

The official annual list of merchant vessels registered in the United States. In addition to 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.

American Lloyd's

[edit]

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.

1850s 1857 1858 1859
1860s 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883

Record of American and Foreign Shipping

[edit]
1870s 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900

Bureau Veritas

[edit]
  • BV Registers per year (in French).
1820s 1829
1830s 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839
1840s 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
1850s 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
1860s 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

Lloyd's Registers

[edit]
1760s - - - - 1764 - - - 1768 -
1770s - - - - - - 1776 1777 1778 1779
1780s 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 - 1786 1787 1788 1789
1790s 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799
1800s 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809
1810s 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819
1820s 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
1830s 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839
1840s 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
1850s 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
1860s 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 - 1892 SS
1892 Sail
1893 SS
1893 Sail
1894 SS
1894 Sail
- 1896 Sail 1897 SS
1897 Sail
1898 SS
1898 Sail
1899 SS
1899 Sail
1900s 1900 SS
1900 Sail
1901 SS
1901 Sail
1902 SS
1902 Sail
1903 SS
1903 Sail
1904 SS
1904 Sail
1905 SS
1905 Sail
1906 SS
1906 Sail
1907 SS
1907 Sail
1908 SS
1908 Sail
1909 SS
1909 Sail
1910s - 1911 SS
1911 Sail
1912 SS
1912 Sail
1913 SS
1913 Sail
-
1914 Sail
1915 SS
1915 Sail
-
1916 Sail
-
1917 Sail
1918 SS
1918 Sail
-
1919 Sail
1920s 1920 SS
1920 Sail
- 1922 SS
1922 Sail
1923 SS
1923 Sail
1924 SS
1924 Sail
1925 SS
1925 Sail
-
1926 Sail
1927 SS
1927 Sail
1928 SS
-
1929 SS
-
1930s 1933 SS 1934 SS 1936 SS 1939 Sail
1940s 1941 SS 1946 Sail 1947 SS
1947 Sail
1949 A-L
1949 M-Z
1950s 1950 A-L
1950 M-Z
1952 A-L
1952 M-Z
1953 A-L
1953 M-Z
1954 A-L
M-Z
1955 A-L
1955 M-Z
1956 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1967 A-L 1968 A-L
1968 M-Z
1969 A-L
1969 M-Z
1970s 1971 A-L 1972 A-L 1974 A-L
1974 M-Z
1975 A-L
1975 M-Z
1976 A-L
1976 M-Z
1977 A-L 1978 A-L 1979 A-K
1979 L-Z
1980s 1980 A-K
1980 L-Z
1981 A-G
1981 H-O
1981 P-Z
1982 A-G
1982 H-O
1982 P-Z
1983 A-G
1983 H-O
1983 P-Z
1984 A-G
1984 H-O
1984 P-Z
1985 A-G
1095 H-O
1985 P-Z
1986 A-G
1986 H-O
1986 P-Z
1987 A-G
1987 H-O
1987 P-Z
1988 A-G
1988 H-O
1988 P-Z
1989 A-G
1989 H-O
1989 P-Z
1990s 1990 A-G
1990 H-O
1990 P-Z
1991 A-G
1991 H-O
1991 P-Z
1992 A-G
1992 H-O
1992 P-Z
1993 A-G
1993 P-Z
1994 A-G
1994 P-Z

Danmarks skibslist

[edit]
  • Denmark Danish Registers per year (in Danish).
1860s 1869
1870s 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1878
1880s 1883 1885 1887 1888
1890s 1891 1893 1895 1897 1899
1900s 1901 1903 1905 1907 1909
1910s 1911 1913 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1944 1946 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002

Assistance with sources that require a subscription

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