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The following resources are included in the ShipIndex.org database, so any ships mentioned in them will be in this database. Shaded resources, like "American Lloyds' Registry", are in the subscription database only.

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Book Pickford, Nigel. The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure: The History, Location, and Treasures of Ships Lost at Sea. London & New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1994.
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Book Plowman, Peter. Across the Pacific: Liners from Australia and New Zealand to North America. Dural, NSW: Rosenberg, 2010.
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Book Plowman, Peter. Across the Sea to War: Australian and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through Two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam. Dural, NSW: Rosenberg, 2003.
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Book Plowman, Peter. Australian Cruise Ships. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2007.
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Book Plowman, Peter. Australian Migrant Ships, 1946-1977. Dural, N.S.W.: Rosenberg Pub., 2006.
Book Plowman, Peter. Coast to Coast: the Great Australian Coastal Liners. Dural, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2007.
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Book Plowman, Peter. Migrant Ships to Australia and New Zealand: 1900-1939. Wellington, NZ: Rosenberg Publishing, in association with transpress NZ, 2009.
Book Plowman, Peter. Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman liners. Wellington, NZ: Rosenberg Publishing, in association with transpress NZ, 2009.
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Web Pocock, Michael W. MaritimeQuest.com.  Go there
Book Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford, and Jon Tetsuro Sumida. The Pollen Papers: The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen, 1901-1916 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 124). London: Navy Records Society, 1984.
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Book Polmar, Norman, and Richard R. Burgess. The Naval Institute guide to the ships and aircraft of the U.S. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2013.
Book Polmar, Norman. The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet: Eleventh Edition. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
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Book Poolman, Kenneth. Allied Submarines of World War Two. London: Arms and Armour, 1990.
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Book Porter, David. The Kriegsmarine: Facts, Figures and Data for the German Navy, 1935-45. London: Amber Books, 2018.
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Book Porter, David D. The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: The Sherman Publishing Company, 1886.
Book Porter, Jane Molloy. Friendly Edifices: Piscataqua Lighthouses and Other Aids to Navigation, 1771-1939. New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall Publisher LLC, 2006.
Book Powell, J. R., and E. K. Timings. Documents Relating to the Civil War, 1642-1648 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 105). London: Navy Records Society, 1963.
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Book Preston, Antony. Royal Navy Submarine Service: A Centennial History. London: Conway Maritime, 2001.
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Book Preston, Antony, John Major. Send a Gunboat!: A Study of the Gunboat and its role in British Policy, 1854-1904. London: Longmans, 1967.
Book Preston, Antony. The World's Worst Warships. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2002.
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Book Prince, Cathryn J. Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Book Pritchard, James S. A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding During the Second World War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.
Web Providence Public Library. Nicholson Whaling Collection of Logbooks.  Go there
Web Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. Inland Riverboats Photograph Collection Wiki. Cincinnati, Ohio: Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, 2007-. Go there
Book Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society. Maritime Seattle. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
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Book Punch, Terrence M. Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada to 1863, Vol. 4. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2010.
Book Punch, Terrence M. Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada, 1751-1858, Vol. 3. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2009.
Book Punch, Terrence M. Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada, 1761-1853, Vol. 2. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2009.
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Book Punch, Terrence M. Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada, Vol. 1. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2008.
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Book Puryear, Pamela Ashworth, and Nath WInfield. Sandbars and Sternwheelers: Steam Navigation on the Brazos. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1976.
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Book Pusch, Donald E. The Log of the flûte Rhinocéros. Seabrook, Texas: Petite Press du Lac, 2008.
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Book Pusch, Donald E. The Logs of the Chariot Royal, 1752-1753: A Detailed Account of the Chariot Royal's Louisiana Campaign as Recorded in the Ship's Logs. Seabrook, Texas: Petite Press du Lac, 2010.
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Book Pusch, Donald E., transl. & ed. The Naval Service Dossier of Jean-François Le Large, Capitaine de Brûlot, 1712-1761. Seabrook, Texas: Petite Press du Lac, 2003.
Book Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series I). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
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Book Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series II). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
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Book Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series III). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1925.
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Book Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series IV). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1930.
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Book Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists (Vol. 1: 1850-1864). Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogical Bulletin, 1965-.
Book Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists (Vol. 2: April 6, 1850 - November 3, 1851). Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy Bulletin, 1965-.
Book Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists (Vol. 3: November 7, 1851 - June 17, 1852). Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy Bulletin, 1965-.
Book Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists (Vol. 4: June 17, 1852 - January 6, 1853). Colma, Calif.: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy Bulletin, 1965-.
Book Ratigan, William, and Reynold H. Weidenaar. Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1960.
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Book Rawlinson, John L. China's Struggle for Naval Development 1839-1895. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Book Read, Simon. The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships. New York: Hachette Books, 2020.
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Book Rees, Siân. Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade. London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.
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Book Reminick, Gerald. Little Ships: Tugboats at D-day, Normandy. El Cerrito: Glencannon Press: Maritime Books, 2011.
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Book Remmelink, Willem. The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal: Compiled by The War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2018.
Book Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: the Forging of an Air Navy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Book Richards, Nathan. Ship's Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Site Formation Process. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
Book Richards, Rhys. Whaling and Sealing at the Chatham Islands. Canberra: Roebuck Society, 1982.
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Book Richardson, David. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America: Vol. 1, The Years of Expansion, 1698-1729 (Bristol Record Society, Vol. 38). Gloucester, England: Bristol Record Society, 1986.
Book Richardson, David. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America: Vol. 2, The Years of Ascendancy, 1730-1745 (Bristol Record Society, Vol. 39). Gloucester, England: Bristol Record Society, 1987.
Book Richardson, David. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America: Vol. 3: The Years of Decline, 1746-1769 (Bristol Record Society, Vol. 42). Bristol, England: Bristol Record Society, 1991.
Book Richardson, David. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America: Vol. 4, The Final Years, 1770-1807 (Bristol Record Society, Vol. 47). Bristol, England: Bristol Record Society, 1996.
Book Rickard, L. S. The Whaling Trade in old New Zealand. Auckland : Minerva, 1965.
Book Ridgely-Nevitt, Cedric. American Steamships on the Atlantic. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1981.
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Book Rigby, Nigel, Pieter van der Merwe, and Glyndwr Williams. Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 2005.
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Book Rimington, Critchell. Fighting Fleets. New York: Dood, Mead, & Company, 1943.
Book Rimington, Critchell. Merchant Fleets: A Survey of the Merchant Navies of the World. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944.
Book Ringwald, Donald C. Hudson River Day Line: The Story of a Great American Steamboat Company. New York: Fordham University Press, 1990.
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Book Ritchie, David. Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea. New York: Checkmark Books, 1996.
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Book Robb-Webb, Jon. The British Pacific Fleet Experience and Legacy, 1944-50. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Pub. Co., 2013.
Book Roberts, Jerry. The British Raid on Essex: The Forgotten Battle of The War of 1812. Middletown, Ct.: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Book Robinson, Bill. Legendary Yachts. New York, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1971.
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Book Robinson, Nicholas J. Stag line and Joseph Robinson and Sons. Kendal: World Ship Society, 1984.
Book Rodengen, Jeffrey L. Serving the Silent Service: The Legend of Electric Boat. Fort Lauderdale, Fl.: Write Stuff Syndicate, 1994.
Book Rodger, N. A. M. The Naval Miscellany, Vol. 5 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 125). London: G. Allen & Unwin, for the Navy Records Society, 1984.
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Book Rodger, N. A. M. The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, 660-1649. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
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Book Rodgers, Bradley A. Guardian of the Great Lakes : the U.S. paddle frigate Michigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Book Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, and David Syrett. The Rodney Papers: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney, Vol. 1: 1742-1763 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 148). Burlington, VT: Ashgate, for Navy Records Society, 2005-2007.
Book Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, and David Syrett. The Rodney Papers: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney, Vol. 2: 1763-1780 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 151). London: Ashgate, for Navy Records Society, 2005-2007.
Book Rogers, Ernest Elias, Nathaniel Shaw. Connecticut's Naval Office at New London During the War of the American Revolution, Including the Mercantile Letter Book of Nathaniel Shaw, Jr. New London, Conn.: New London County Historical Society, 1933.
Book Rogers, Henry J. Rogers' Marine Telegraphic List of Merchant Vessels: Of 150 Tons and Upward, Employed in the Commerce of the United States. New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855.
Book Rogozinski, Jan. Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.
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Book Rohwer, Jürgen. Axis Submarine Successes of Word War Two: German, Italian and Japanese Submarine Successes, 1939-1945. London, Annapolis, Maryland: Greenhill Books, Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Book Rohwer, Jurgen, Gerard Hummelchen, and Thomas Weis. Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two. London: Chatham, 2005.
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Book Rohwer, Jürgen, and J. S. Kay and I. N. Venkov. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two: European Theatre of Operations, 1939-1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Book Roland, Alex, W. Jeffery Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
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Book Rooke, Sir George, and Oscar Browning. The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 9). London: Navy Records Society, 1897.
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Book Roscoe, Theodore. On the Seas and In the Skies: A History of the U.S. Navy's Air Power. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1970.
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Book Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 1: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
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Book Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 2: The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
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Book Rose, Lisle A. Power at Sea, Volume 3: A Violent Peace, 1946-2006. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
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Book Rose, Susan, and William Soper. Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 123). London: Allen & Unwin, for the Navy Records Society, 1982.
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Book Rose, Susan. The Naval Miscellany, Vol. 7 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 153). London: Ashgate Publishing, for the Navy Records Society, 2008.
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Book Roskill, S. W. A Merchant Fleet in War: Alfred Holt & Co., 1939-1945. London: Collins, 1962.
Book Roskill, S. W. Documents Relating to the Naval Air Service, Volume I (Navy Records Society, Vol. 113). London: Navy Records Society, 1969.
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Book Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 1: The Defensive. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1954.
Book Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 2: The Period of Balance. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956.
Book Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 3: The Offensive, Part 1 (1st June 1943-1st May 1944). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1960.
Book Rouleau, Brian. With sails whitening every sea : mariners and the making of an American maritime empire. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Book Rowbotham, Thomas Robert. The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 87). London: Navy Records Society, 1947.
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Book Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Shipbuilding & Seafaring. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1948.
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Book Runciman, Walter. Collier brigs and their sailors. London: T. F. Unwin, 1926.
Book Rupert, Prince Count Palatine, George Monck, Duke of Albemarle; J. R. Powell, and Edward Kenneth Timings. The Rupert and Monck Letter Book, 1666: Together With Supporting Documents (Navy Records Society, Vol. 112). London: Navy Records Society, 1969.
Book Russell, Mark A. Steamship Nationalism: Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World. London And New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Book Ryden, David. The British Transatlantic Slave Trade. Volume 4, The Abolitionist Struggle: Promoters of the Slave Trade. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003.
Book Rye, Scott. Men and Ships of the Civil War. Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994.
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Web Sandström, Fredrik. Sailing Ships Vessel Database.  F. Sandström, 2000-?. Go there
Book Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, and R.C. Anderson. The Journal of Edward Montagu, First Earl of Sandwich, 1659-1665 (Navy Record Society, Vol. 64). London: Navy Records Society, 1929.