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The Mother of All Maritime Links
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History A to L:: The &quo;1421" Myth Exposed ("Chinese admiral Zheng He did not discover the world in 1421"); 6th Maritime Heritage Conference (2001, several of the papers presented are online); Admiral Beatty (Photographs associated with the end of the Great War and the Grand Fleet and end of hostilities); The Age of Nelson (Articles, documents, bookshop and forum); The Alexander Parris Digital Project (Searchable digital archive of materials concerning this 19th century designer of many New England lighthouses); The American Antiquarian Society (An independent research library founded in 1812, Worcester, Massachusetts); The American Merchant Marine at War (From the Revolution to today); The American Neptune (A quarterly journal of maritime history and arts); The American Privateer Prince de Neufchâtel; Les Amis du Modèle d'Arsenal (Belgium based international modeling and research association); Anders Junnila's Sea Journal, 1859-1869; Antique Marine Photos from Stereopticon Slides (Also photos of a couple of Oregon shipwrecks and a Scottish harbor); Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (The 1765 book by Frederik Hendrik af Chapman online); Archive (A magazine for enthusiasts of British industrial and transport history); The Archives and Collections Society (A not-for-profit foundation oriented towards maritime history and the conservation of marine documentation; education; and research, Picton, Ontario); Army Ships -- The Ghost Fleet (US Army); The Atlantic Neptune Online (A guide to the historical details of J. F. W. DesBarres and his atlas of 18th century nautical charts); The Australian War Memorial Online Media Database (Photographs and more); Axel's History of the Ship; The Battles for Guadalcanal (An introduction to the WW II campaign by Kenneth I. Friedman); The Bluenose Home Page (The story of Canada’s most famous ship); The Bosun's Watch! (The history of Fleetwood, Lancashire's trawlers and its fishing industry); Boy's Manual of Seamanship and Gunnery (Electronic book "For the use of Boys under training for Her Majesty's Navy", 1871); The Bridge to France (The story of the the United States Shipping Board by Edward N. Hurley, its WW I chairman, online book); A Brief Look at the History of the Thames Sailing Barge (By Michael Land); The Britannia Naval Research Association (An independent body aiming to preserve, promote and research British naval heritage); The British Columbia Archives (Great source of photos, many online); The British Columbia Historical Federation; The British Empire/Commonwealth Forces (BEC Forces) Mailing List (Dealing with all aspects of the naval, military, and air force history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, since about 1750); The British Public Record Office (PRO); The California Heritage Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley (An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture); The Cammell Laird Archive Collection (Including an online list of ships built by Cammell Laird, Wirral Museum, Birkenhead); The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN); The Canadian Nautical Research Society; Canadian Naval History (At the Naval Officers Association of Canada); The Canadian Naval Technical History Association (CNTHA); The Canadian Privateering Homepage; The Canfisco 90th Anniversary Page; Canonesa, Convoy HX72 and Joachim Schepke's U-100 (The true story of a U-boat attack during the Battle of the Atlantic); The Captain Cook Society (A society for everyone interested in James Cook); Captain Cook's Voyages of Discovery (At the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow); The Captain's Clerk (Historically accurate stories and other information about the USS Constitution); Carpintería de Ribera en Luanco (An illustrated treatise on traditional wooden boat construction in northern Spain); The Centenary of the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702-2002); Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at Exeter University; The Centre for Portuguese Nautical Studies (Furthering public awareness of Portuguese maritime history and the role played by Portuguese mariners in the history of Southern Africa); A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River (1913 book by Barlow Cumberland online); Channel Islands Maritime Miscellany (Crew and ship lists, letters of Marque); Chatham Publishing (Specialises in maritime history publications, UK); The Chilean Navy History Pages; Chuck Hawks' Naval & Military History Page; The Civil War Sailor & Marine Association (CWSMMA, reenactors); The Clatsop County Historical Society (Astoria, Oregon); ClydeSite (A database of Clyde built ships)
The Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) Historic Image Collection (NOAA): The Coast Defense Study Group (The CDSG promotes the study of coast defenses and fortifications, primarily but not exclusively those of the United States of America); Colin McKenzie's Able Seaman Albert McKenzie Page (Of HMS Vindictive who was awarded the Victoria Cross following the Royal Navy's famous "Raid on Zeebrugge" in April, 1918); El Combate Naval de Trafalgar (Beautiful presentation, in Spanish); Comox Valley Marine History from 1790 (Vancouver Island, with pictures of historic ships); A Concise History of the Development of the Full-Rigged Ship (The development of the western square-rigger after the Middle Ages); Concrete Ships (History and photos of WW I and WW II concrete ships); Connecticut History Online (Photographs, drawings and prints about Connecticut history); Consolidated Fisheries, Ltd. (A history of the Grimsby trawler owner); Cyberheritage (Plymouth, England historical photos); Dai James' Naval & Maritime Pages (The war in the Pacific 1941-45, the Third Fleet in Typhoon Cobra, The loss of the battleship Victoria, the sinking of Titanic, the loss of the cruiser Memphis); Danish Military History; Danish Naval History (The story of the Royal Danish Navy from 1801 to 1993); The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (18th and 19th century historical North and South American maritime charts and other maps); Defending Victoria (Victorian colonial military and naval forces and Victoria's part in the Boer War and WW I); The Denbigh Project (One of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War); The Destroyer History Trust (Preserving the history of USN destroyers); The Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Archive; The Development of the Canoe and Boat Building Industry in Peterborough, Ontario; Dinosaurs in the Deep (The 1916 sinking of the SS Mount Temple and a proposed attempt to salvage the cargo of fossils she carried); The Discoverers Web Homepage (Voyages of discovery and exploration); Documents in Naval History (Hillsdale College's collection of primary sources for military history); Dorset Belles (The 105 year history of Bournemouth Pier boat trips and pleasure cruises); The Dutch Institute for Maritime History (The historical section of the Dutch Navy); Eagles Byte Historical Research; The East End Marine Foundation (Restoring and preserving the maritime heritage of the east end of Long Island, New York); The Eastland Disaster Historical Society (Arlington Heights, Illinois); The Edmund Fitzgerald: Remembering the Ship & Her Crew (A pictorial tribute by Dale Lewis); Encyclopedia Titanica (Passenger and crew biographies and comprehensive Titanic history); The Era of the Clipper Ships (Online history magazine); The Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850 (History of the port of Falmouth & postal packet communications); Farewell to the China Boats (Officers' reports of the WW II sinking of the Blue Funnel ship Rhexenor by a U-Boat and the crew's three weeks in lifeboats); The Fate of Franklin (A WWW Clearinghouse for information relating to the ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845); FeldGrau.com (The German armed forces 1919-1945); The Fenland Lighter Project (Fostering interest in the traditional East Anglian river-craft); The Finn Slough Heritage & Wetland Society (A fishing community on the south arm of the Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia); Fireboats of the Los Angeles Fire Department; The Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (RN); The Florida Memory Project Photographic Collection (Online database); For King and Country (Stanley I. Hillier and the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve in the Great War); The Foundation for Coast Guard History (USCG)
The French Naval Archaeology Collection (Modeling and research monographs & books by Jean Boudriot & Hubert Berti): The Friedrich Files (Questions concerning martitime history); Friends of Hydrography (A group of retired Canadian Hydrographic Service employees preserving the historical highlights of Canadian hydrography); From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging (Article in Terra et Aqua); From Tree to Sea: Boat Builders of the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia boatbuilders); The Führer Putz Underbot Verks (Mankato, Minnesota's Submarine Docks. Be sure to read the disclaimer!); Full Fathom Five (Devoted to the US submarine war against Japan); The General Armstrong and the War of 1812 (American privateer); A General Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of the Ship; The German Kriegsmarine in WW II; Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War (Online edition of the book by Admiral Reinhard Scheer); Glasgow University Archive Services; Gordon Mumford's Wartime Merchant Navy Pages; Graveyard of the Pacific (The shipwrecks of Vancouver Island); The Great Lakes Ship History and Photo Page of Steve Vanden Bosch; The Great Lakes Shipwreck File 1679-1999; The Gulf of Georgia Cannery (A pictorial history); The Gun Plot (Articles and features on Australia's naval and military history including a complete listing of HMAS ships since Australian Federation in 1901, the RAN's Order of Battle, a year by year & a chronological historic Australian naval diary); The Hakluyt Society (Publisher of historical travel literature); The Harland and Wolff Archive Department (Builders of the Titanic); Harry Foster's Historic Sailing Page (Royal George historic reenactment group, headed by Victor Suthren, Ontario); Harry Tate's Navy (Reminiscences WW II Royal Naval Patrol Service veterans); The H. C. Hanson Naval Architecture Collection (A collection of plans, photographs, periodicals and other assorted materials detailing the life and work of Harold Cornelius Hanson, Pacific Northwest designer of commercial watercraft, at the Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, Washington); The Higgins Industries Collection (Online collection of PT Boat drawings at the Louisiana Digital Library); La Historia del Arma Submarina Española; Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (Including the Great Lakes Vessels Online Database and the Great Lakes Ports and People Online Databases); The Historical Maritime Society (Exists to "re-create aspects of British Royal Navy life in the era of the Napoleonic Wars"); Historical Western Atlantic Iced Data and Incidents of Ship/Iceberg Collisions; The History and Wreck of the Austrian Lloyd Ship Baron Gautsch; HistoryLink (An online encyclopedia of Seattle and King County, Washington history); The History of Cable & Wireless; The History of Military Naval Technologies (Focuses on the German navy and the evolution of naval technology from the beginning of the century to the end of WW II); History of Nova Scotia (Biographies and essays by Peter "Blupete" Landry); A History of Sailing Cutters (As employed during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries by smugglers, the revenue authorities, the navy, and as yachts); The History of the Baltimore Clipper Schooner Vigilant (1790s 'til 1928); The History of the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; History on the Internet (Peter McCracken's guide to doing maritime research online); The History Webring; The H-Maritime Mailing List (For scholars interested in maritime history to discuss research interests, teaching methods and the state of maritime affairs); How the Detroit River Shaped Lives and History (Detroit News article); The Hudson's Bay Company Archives; The Hulton Getty Picture Collection (Searchable library of illustrative material); HyperWar: The US Navy and Coast Guard in World War II; Ian Chadwick's Biography of Henry Hudson; An Illustrated History of shipbuilding (Croatia); The Imperial German Navy Almanac Pages (1888 to 1918); The Imperial German Navy in WW I (Photos, links, and information); The Index of Ships in Books (A searchable index of books or magazines that mention specific vessels); The Influence of Iron in Ship Construction: 1660 to 1830; In Harm's Way: New York Shipbuilding in WWII; In Memory of Able Seaman William Fielding (Who served aboard SS South Western during WW I); The Institute of Maritime History; The International Journal of Maritime History; The International Journal of Naval History (A global online forum for works of naval history researched and written to demonstrable academic standards); The International Naval Research Organization (INRO, a "non-profit corporation dedicated to the encouragement of the study of naval vessels and their histories, principally in the era of iron and steel warships"); The International Registry of Sunken Ships; The Internet Library of Early Journals (A digital library of 18th and 19th century journals); The Ironclads Chapter from Hammersly's Naval Encyclopedia of 1881; Jack Corbett, Mariner (Memoir of A. S. Hatch, a leading 19th century financier, who as a lad made a voyage before the mast in 1849 for his health); The Japanese Imperial Navy Page ("The proud navy that lost the Pacific War"); Jarcia y Lona para la Armada Española en el Siglo XVIII (Rigging of the Spanish Navy in the 18th century, articles by Manuel Díaz); The Jefferson County Historical Society (Port Townsend, Washington); John Cant's Nelson Page; The Journal for Maritime Research (Subscription electronic journal from the National Maritime Museum, UK); The Journal of Capt. James Cook, 1768-1771 (Aboard HMS Endeavour, complete scanned pages at the National Library of Australia); The J. Porter Shaw Library (Focuses on sail and steam on the West Coast and in the Pacific basin from 1520 to the present); Kayaks & Ships: Old Photographs and Post-Cards (Alaska kayaks, Portland, Oregon & the Willamette & Columbia Rivers in the early 1900's, American naval vessels from the Spanish-American War era); The Kearsarge Afterguard And Marine Detachment (New Hampshire reenactors seeking to preserve the maritime history of the American Civil War); The Kemah Historical Society (A small fishing village on the west coast of Galveston Bay, Texas); The King's College London, University of London, Department of War Studies; Klubb Maritim (A Swedish maritime research club); Lake Michigan Maritime Marginalia (An online magazine "dedicated to those craft that inhabit the margins of Great Lakes history, small passenger boats, workboats, fish tugs, and the like"); Lake Oswego Public Library Historic Photos (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Lascars.co.uk (For publication and exchange of information about the history of the Asian, African and other "foreign" seamen serving on British ships); Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation; Legends of the Deep (The story of USS Wahoo); Leigh Kimmel's Naval Homepage (Pearl Harbor revisionism, Lord Nelson, Sir Clowdisley Shovell, Mike Boorda); The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program (Images & documents online); The Life and Times of Captain Adams Dodd (A great granddaughter's tribute to a West Coast sea captain); Lincoln Paine's Maritime History Blog; The Liverpool Nautical Research Society; The Looe Maritime Archive (Digitised artefacts for the community); The Los Angeles Public Library's Photographic Archives; The LST 454 Home Page (WW II in the Pacific); (See also Museums, Navies & Warships)

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