Index to Ships in Books -- Search Page

This index will tell you what books or magazines mention specific vessels.

• If you're looking for a specific ship, type the name of the vessel in the search box and click "search," or press Enter.
• Here's a hint for better searching: keep the name simple -- don't include "hms" or "ss" or things like that. If the name has multiple words, try searching on one word at a time.

New data was uploaded to the index on May 28, 2003, after a hiatus of one year. There are now over 103,000 ship names in the index. A few minor issues remain, but those will be ironed out as time allows.

Ship Name:

About these pages:

I am certain that there are errors in these pages. The ease with which each index was created varied dramatically from title to title, and in some cases numerous errors were introduced. I have corrected those I have found, but many more exist. If a ship is mentioned, however, then you know it appears in the book: my page number may be wrong, but you've always got the index at the back of the book itself that you can check. Also, remember that there are many ships with the same name. The one here may not be the ship you seek. I copied all the information available in the index: in some cases that includes the ship's launch date, or the type of ship, or descriptive elements from the book's index. I did not evaluate this information, or combine or correct any entries.

The total number of records will always be indicated on this page and on the Bibliography page. If you have a title you'd like to see included in here, please send me a note at shipindex (at) yahoo.com.

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HISTORY:
This collection of pages was created by Peter McCracken.
The searchable database at shipindex.org was launched April 9, 2002. The searchable version of this index (then at servers at the University of Washington Libraries) was launched 15 December 2001; the flat file version was first launched 24 April 2000, the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress.
This document was last modified 12 June 2003 (other than minor corrections and changes to database counts); the data in the index was last updated 17 November 2003.

This database currently contains about 103,202 ship names from:

• 67 books
• 110 volumes from 3 journals (not all are comprehensive)
• one CD-ROM
• one online collection

For other ship lists, see the following:

• TPL's ship index name, hosted by Tacoma Public Library.
• Norway Heritage, for information on ships in and out of Norway.
• Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth identifies a number of ships memorialized in the Portsmouth, England, area.
• New Zealand Maritime Record courtesy of the New Zealand Maritime Museum, has a collection of biographies of ships from down under.
• The Ships List has a variety of lists and links.