New or Changed Links
Nagasaki University's Old Picture Database (Japanese photos 1860-1899)
The Nantucket Historical Association
The National Archives Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System
The National Archives of Canada
The National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue
The National Library of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand Home Collection
The National Maritime Heritage Foundation (NMHF, official maritime heritage organization of the District of Columbia)
The National Maritime Historical Society
The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC, a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress)
The Nautical Research Guild Museum Survey Project
Naval and Military Museums and History of Texas
The Naval Battle of Santiago ("A vivid description of the historic sea fight by Captain Robley D. Evans, commander of the battleship Iowa")
The Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images
The Naval Historical Foundation (At the Washington Navy Yard)
The Naval Historical Society of Australia
Naval History Net (20th century men and ships, British warship losses, navies and battles)
Naval History of Great Britain 1793-1827 (Online book by William James, originally published in 1837)
Naval History Of World War Two (WW II)
Naval-Reference.Net (History reference information, presented graphically as much as possible)
The Naval War in the Pacific 1941-45
Navigating the Lower St. Lawrence in the 19th Century (CDROM and online excerpts, shipping news compiled from contemporary sources)
NavSource ("Making detailed information about the history of the ships of the United States Navy available to everyone")
NavWeaps (Naval weapons, naval technology and naval reunions)
The Navy of Brazil Documents Service
The Navy Records Society (Publishes original materials on the history of the Royal Navy)
Neal Elosge's Marine & Nuclear Engineering Page (Dedicated to the engineering and design of the Nuclear Ship Savannah)
Nelson's Decade ("Celebrating 10 glorious years of Britain's greatest naval hero," 1995-2005)
The Ness Historical Society (Isle of Lewis, Scotland)
The New York Public Library Digital Library (Searchable database of old New York maritime photos from the Robert Dennis and Berenice Abbott collections)
The New Zealand Maritime Index (Database of vessels, organisations, subjects and people mentioned publications indexed by the New Zealand National Maritime Museum)
The New Zealand Maritime Record (Maintained by the National Maritime Museum)
The New Zealand Ship & Marine Society Inc. (New Zealand shipping history including features on the Union Steamship Company and the NZ Shipping Shipping Co.)
The NOAA Historical Map and Chart Collection
Norman B. Clarke's Rudder Index 1891-1950 (Mystic Seaport)
The North American Society for Oceanic History
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center Historical Photo Collection (National Marine Fisheries Service)
The Northern Mariner / le Marin du Nord (A quarterly, fully refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, publishing articles, essays, notes and documents on a variety of naval and maritime history subjects)
The Norwegian Shipping History Society
Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management (NSARM)
Oceans Enterprises (Publishers & distributors of maritime history books, Australia)
The Office of Coast Survey Historical Map and Chart Collection (300dpi scans of US coastal charts from the 1800s & early 1900s)
The Old Steam Navy (Images of the men and ships of the US Navy in the late 1800s)
On Eternal Patrol (Honoring the men of the US Submarine Force by attempting to put faces to as many of the names on the lists of lost submariners as possible)
The Pacific County Historical Society and Museum (South Bend, Washington)
The Palmer List of Merchant Vessels (Descriptions of 19th and early 20th century merchant vessels, both sail and steam)
Pasquotank Waterfront History (Elizabeth City, North Carolina)
The Pat Hathaway Historical Photo Collection (Views of Monterey, Cannery Row, the sardine fishing industry, California lighthouses, shipwrecks and more, over 80,000 images, 1855-1999)
Paul's Ship and Naval Pages (Thermopylae, Mauretania, HMS Eagle, mystery ship pictures)
The Pensacola Maritime Preservation Society ("Preserving and telling the maritime story of America's first place city")
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (Historical maps and more, at the University of Texas)
A Personal History of Captain James I. Waddell, CSN (Commander of the raider Shenandoah)
Peter McCracken's Index to Ships Mentioned in Maritime History Books
A Photographic Archive of Royal Naval ships and Submarines from 1850 to 2000
PictureAustralia (Searchable photo database for the continent of Australia, lots of nautical images)
The Point Honda Memorial Web Site (Honors the 23 sailors who perished on Sept. 8, 1923 when seven US Navy destroyers were stranded at Point Honda, California)
Port (The National Maritime Museum information gateway)
PortCities UK (Interactive site exploring the history of London, Bristol, Southampton, Hartlepool and Liverpool
The Portsmouth Project (Re-enactment and celebration of the cruise of the USS Portsmouth to California 1845-1848)
POSEIDON Voyage (Greek maritime history)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 (A fully searchable online edition containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court)
The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
The Quay (New Zealand shipwreck database, historical archives, libraries, etc. accessible from the Web)
Questions for Young Officers (Seamanship test from The New Practical Navigator, 1814)
RAAF Marine Section: the Forgotten Era of Men & Vessels (Online book by Leslie R Jubbs)
Ramon G. Jackson's US Naval Survey, Cable Laying and Army Ships Pages
A Reader's Guide to Newfoundland History to 1869
ReadyAyeready.com (Photos, information and articles that tell the story of the Canadian Navy since 1910)
La Regia Marina (The Italian Navy in WW II)
Regia Marina Italiana (A pictorial history of the Royal Italian Navy between 1940 and 1943)
Reports of the US Naval Technical Mission to Japan (1945-1946)
The Rise of Maritime Containerization in the Port of Oakland 1950 to 1970 (Mark Rosenstein's masters thesis)
Rivermen & Riverboats (About Captain Cornelius McGee who worked for the Streckfus Steamboat Lines out of St. Louis along with information about other river people as well, also lots of steamboat photos)
The River's Touch (Documenting and sharing the history of Oregon and Northwest river dories)
Rob Fisher's Articles on the RCN and the Battle of the Atlantic (Plus tables of Canadian merchant and warship losses, and U-boats destroyed by Canadian forces)
Royal Canadian Navy Historical Society (RCNHS)
The Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Era (1793-1815)
The Royal Navy from 1789 Mailing List (Discussion about the British Royal Navy from The Napoleonic Wars to the end of the 19th century)
The Russo Japanese War Mailing List
The Russo Japanese War Research Society
The Saginaw River Marine Historical Society (Michigan)
Sailing Navies: 1650-1850 (Information on naval operations and a listing of age of sail related fiction and links)
The Sailing Navies Forum (Topics related to naval operations 1650-1850)
The Sailing Ship the India (Lost at sea 1841)
Salem, Massachusetts' Maritime Heritage
Samuel Pepys' Blog (Annotated text of his diary, one entry added per day starting January 1, 2003/1660)
The Scituate Historical Society (Massachusetts)
Seamans Secrets (Transcription of a 17th century navigation text by John Davis)
Seasoned Sailors (The videotaped recollections of some of the survivors from Canada's WW II navy)
Sea Warriors - the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail (A documentary film with tours of existing RN ships)
Sea Your History (The 20th century Royal Navy and its people)
Selected Images of Ships of the United States Army (At the naval historical center)
Service Historique de la Marine (French Navy history branch)
The Sextant (An online community for maritime history and underwater archaeology)
The Ship Information Database (Information about ships that floated in Canadian waters)
The Ship's Company (Nautical living history & music in Maryland/Virginia/DC, 1797-1865)
Ships for Victory (J.A. Jones Construction Company and liberty ships in Brunswick, Georgia)
Ships of our Ancestors (A list of ships for which a photograph is available in the book Ships of our Ancestors)
Ships of the Old Navy (Histories of Royal Navy sailing ships)
Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Free online edition of the book by Lincoln Paine)
Signalling Aboard Tug Boats (During the American Civil War)
The Sinking of HMS Hampshire (June 5, 1916)
The Sinking of the Laconia (From Trenches on the Web)
The Société Jersiaise (A Jersey historical society)
The Society for Nautical Research (Encourages research into matters relating to seafaring and shipbuilding in all ages and among all nations, into the language and customs of the sea, and into other subjects of nautical interest)
The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen (S&D, "america's riverboat historical society")
South-Pole.com (Antarctic exploration and postal history)
The South Seas Project (Online texts from the 18th century exploration of the South Pacific)
The South West Maritime History Society (England)
The Spanish-American War Centennial Website (With details of the naval fleets)
The SS Mohamed Ali el-Kebir (The story of her sinking by a U-boat in 1940)
The State Library of Victoria Pictures Catalogue (Over 140,000 digitised historical images)
Steamboats in North Carolina (With lists of steamboats from 1812-1899, and a list of early steamboat companies and lines)
The Steamship Historical Society of America (SHSA, publisher of Steamboat Bill)
Steve Johnson's Cyberheritage Royal Navy Page (A photographic A to Z of British Naval warships, submarines, and auxiliaries from 1880 to the 1950s)
The St. George Shipwreck Museum (British ship wrecked off Jutland in 1811, Thorsminde, Denmark)
The Stikine River Historical Foundation (Wrangell, Alaska, reactivating the riverboat Judith Ann)
The Story of the Australian Couta Boats
The Straits Trilogy (Series of books by Geoffrey Miller on the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1900-1915)
Submarines in Long Island Waters (John Holland and America's first submarine base)
The Sultana Steamboat (The story of the riverboat disaster during the American Civil War)
Survivors (A WW II survival story of the U-Boat U-188 and two of her victims)
Tall Ships of San Francisco (History and photos of sailing ships built on the West Coast)
Taming Ripple Rock (The removal, using 1,375 tons of explosives, of the dangerous obstruction in Seymour Narrows, British Columbia, the largest non-nuclear explosion ever)
Tayside A Maritime History (TAMH)
Teemu's Sailing Warships Page (Ship data for over 1,000 ships)
The Thames River Police (An historical look)
Thomas Peter Iredale's Iredale & Porter Shipping Line Page
Through Mighty Seas (The history of the merchant sailing ships of the North West of England and the Isle of Man from the late 1700's until WW I)
The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Vessel Database (Photos and info on Great Lakes ships)
The Tillamook County Historical Society (Oregon)
The Toms River Seaport Society (Dedicated to the preservation of the maritime heritage of the Barnegat Bay in New Jersey)
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Web Ring (Web sites about organizations or individuals involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia between 1951 and 1975)
The Training Ships Website (Royal Navy and other historic British trainig ships)
The Transpacific Voyage of the I-400 (The memoirs of the executive officer of the USN prize crew that brought the world's largest submarine from Japan to Hawaii in 1945)
The Treasures of the Naval Base (A virtual history of 250 years of naval architecture and shipbuilding at the Holmen naval base, Denmark)
The Trireme Trust (Builders of the Athenian trireme reconstruction Olympias)
Tyne and Wear Archives Service (Material on a number of shipping companies, shipbuilders, etc.)
The U-boat Archive (Photographs and records of the U-boat war)
United States Coast Guard History (From various sources)
The University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
The US Army Registry of Vessel Names (And their origins, PDF)
The US Coast Guard Historian's Office
US Coast Guard Historian's Office Cutters, Craft & Coast Guard-Manned Vessels Page (Including an incomplete listing of named vessels)
The US Coast Guard Historian's Office Lighthouses, Lightships & Aids to Navigation Page
The US Life Saving Service Heritage Association
US Naval History Sources in the United States (Online, updated and expanded edition of the 1979 publication)
US Navy Manuals and Documents Online
The US Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
The US Navy in China (The Yangtze Patrol and South China Patrol)
The US Navy in the Pacific 1941-1945
Usque Ad Mare (A history of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services)
The US Submarine S-51 Accident
Vancouver Public Library Special Collections (Historical photos, some online, newspapers, city directories, etc., British Columbia)
Het Verleden In Beeld - Picturing The Past (Illustrations of 18th century Dutch ships by Verzameling Groenewegen, some older illustrations, photos of immigrant ships)
The Vickers Photographic Archive at the Dock Museum (What Vickers thought was important to photograph at their Barrow yard)
The Victoria Cross Awards 1854-1914
The Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation (Preserving the maritime history of Vietnam with an emphasis on traditional wooden boat building)
Wapenfeiten (Great Dutch naval battles 1218-1821)
The War Times Journal (Famous dispatches, memoirs, letters, articles)
The Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation (Oregon City, Oregon)
World History Compass ("Links to history sites on the Web the World over")
The World War I Document Archive
World War I - The Maritime War
World War II Resources (Online transcripts of original documents regarding all aspects of the war)
World War II Troop Ship Crossings
World War II Unit Histories & Officers
The World War Two Website Association (Webring "united against plagiarism")
The Wreck of the Empress of Ireland (A brief history of the sinking in the St. Lawrence River, archival photos and computer graphics)