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Resources Included in ShipIndex.org Database

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 Canney, Donald L. The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 (The Old Steam Navy, Vol. 1). Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
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Book Canney, Donald L. The Old Steam Navy: The Ironclads, 1842-1885 (The Old Steam Navy, Vol. 2). Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993.
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Book Canney, Donald L. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Book Carlisle, Rodney. Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.
Book Carroll, John R. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy's Role, Vietnam, 1965-1972. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenberg, 2020.
Book Cassady, Michael, Sylvia Nimmo. New York Passenger Arrivals, 1849-1868: Passenger Lists. Papillion, Nebraska: Sylvia Nimmo, 1983.
Book Chapelle, Howard I. The American Fishing Schooners, 1825-1935. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973.
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Book Chapelle, Howard I. The History of American Sailing Ships. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1935.
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Book Chapelle, Howard I. The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1949.
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Book Chapelle, Howard I. The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1855. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1967.
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Book Chapman, Gifford D. Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks: An Account of the Ships and Cutters Wrecked Around Kangaroo Island. Canberra: Roebuck Society, 1973.
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Book Charlebois, Peter. Sternwheelers & Sidewheelers: The Romance of Steamdriven Paddleboats in Canada. Toronto: NC Press, 1978.
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Web Chen, C. Peter. World War II Database.  Lava Development, 2004-2014. Go there
Book Chesneau, Robert. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2001.
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Book Childs, Bob. Rochester sailing barges of the Victorian era. 1993: Bob Childs, Kent.
Book Ching Liu, Kwang. Anglo-American Steamship Rivalry in China, 1862-1874. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962. New
Book Chowning, Larry S. Chesapeake Bay Buyboats. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 2003.
Book Clark, Arthur H. The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, and Crews, 1843-1869. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1910.
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Book Clark, Roy. Black-Sailed Traders: The Keels and Wherries of Norfolk and Suffolk. London: Putnam, 1961.
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Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 1). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 2). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
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Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 3). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 4). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, Willam Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 5). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Army, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 6). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 7). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 8). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 9). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 10). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 11). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol. 12). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 1). London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1897-1903.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 2). London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897-1903.
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Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 3). London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1897-1903.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 4). London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1897-1903.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 5). London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1897-1903.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 6). London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897-1903.
Book Clowes, W. Laird, Sir, Sir Clements R Markham, A T Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and L G Carr Laughton. The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Present (Vol. 7). London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1897-1903.
Web Clyde Maritime Research Trust. Clyde Built Ships.  2014-. Go there
Book Cobb, Stephen. Preparing for Blockade, 1885-1914: Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013.
Book Codrington, Edward, Sir, and C. G. Pitcairn Jones. Piracy in the Levant, 1827-8: Selected from the Papers of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington (Navy Records Society, Vol. 72). London: Navy Records Society, 1934.
Book Cohn, Arthur B. Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey from Burlington Bay to the Hudson River. Basin Harbor, VT: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2003.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1993.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, Vol. 1: 1607-1660. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1987.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants, Vol. 2: 1661-1699. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993.
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Book Coldham, Peter Wilson. The King's Passengers to Maryland and Virginia. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1997.
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Book Cole, Bernard D. Gunboats and Marines: The United States Navy in China, 1925-1928. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983.
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Book Cole, Bernard D. The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-First Century. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
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Book Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron, ed. by Edward Hughes. The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood (Navy Records Society, Vol. 98). London: Navy Records Society, 1957.
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Book Cooley, Reg. The Unknown Fleet: The Army's Civilian Seamen in War and Peace. Portsmouth, Engl.: Royal Naval Museum, 1993.
Book Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. Gray steel and blue water Navy the formative years of America's military-industrial complex 1881-1917. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979.
Book Corbett, Julian S., Sir. Naval Operations Volume II. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921.
Book Corbett, Julian S., Sir. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 29). London: Navy Records Society, 1905.
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Book Corbett, Julian S., Sir. Naval Operations Volume I: To the Battle of the Falklands. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920.
Book Corbett, Julian S., Sir, and Henry Newbolt. Naval Operations Volume V. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931.
Book Corbett, Julian Stafford. Papers Relating to the Navy During the Spanish War 1585-1587 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 11). London: Navy Records Society, 1898.
Book Corbin, Annalies. The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
Book Corlett, Ewan. The Iron Ship: The History and Significance of Brunel's Great Britain. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1975.
Book Course, Alfred George. Painted Ports: The Story of the Ships of Devitt & Moore. Pangbourne, England: Hollis & Carter, 1961.
Book Course, Capt. A.G. Windjammers of the Horn: The Story of the Last British Fleet of Square-rigged Sailing Ships. London: Adlard Coles, Ltd., 1969.
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Book Cowden, James E., John O. C. Duffy. The Elder Dempster: Fleet History, 1852-1985. Coltishall, UK: Mallett and Bell, 1986.
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Book Craig, Robert, Rupert Jarvis. Liverpool Registry of Merchant Ships. Manchester: Manchester Printed for The Chetham Society, 1967.
Book Cram, W. Bartlett. Picture History of New England Passenger Vessels. Hampden Highlands, ME: Burntcoat Corporation, 1980.
Book Cranwell, John Philips, and William Bowers Crane. Men of Marque: A History of Private Armed Vessels out of Baltimre During the War of 1812. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1940.
Book Cressy, David. Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Book Crisman, Kevin J., editor. Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
Book Crothers, William L. The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, and Details. Camden, Maine: International Marine, 2000.
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Book Cumpston, John Stanley. Shipping Arrivals & Departures: Sydney, 1788-1825. Canberra, ACT: Roebuck Society, 1977.
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Book Cunningham of Hyndhope,, Michael Simpson. The Cunningham Papers2: Selections from the private and official correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, O.M., K.T., G.C.B., D.S.O. and two bars, Volume 1, The Mediterranean Fleet, 1939-1942. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 1999.
Book Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount, and Michael Simpson. The Cunningham Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Vol. 2: The Triumph of Allied Sea Power, 1942-1946 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 150). Brookfield, VT: Ashgate for Navy Records Society, 2006.
Book Curry, Jane. The River's in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
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Book Curwood, James Oliver. The Great Lakes: The Vessels that Plough Them, Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together With a Brief History of our Inland Seas. New York: Putnam, 1909.
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Book Cutler, Carl C. Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship. Annapolis, Md.: United States Naval Institute, 1930.
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Book Cutler, Carl C. Queens of the Western Ocean: The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines. Annapolis, Md.: United States Naval Institute, 1961.
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Book D'Enno, Douglas. Fishermen Against the Kaiser, Volume I: Shockwaves of War, 1914-1915. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010.
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Book Dakin, William John. Whalemen adventurers : the story of whaling in Australian waters and other southern seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938.
Book Darlington, Robert A., and Fraser M. McKee. Canadian Naval Chronicle: 1939-1945. St. Catharines ON: Vanwell Publishing Limited.
Book Daughan, George C. The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex During the War of 1812. New York: Basic Books, 2013.
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Book Davidson, A. S. Marine Art and Liverpool: Painters, Places and Flag Codes, 1760-1960. Albrighton, Wolverhampton: Waine Research, 1986.
Book Davies, David Twiston. The Daily Telegraph Book of Naval Obituaries. London: Grub Street, 2004.
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Book Davison, Robert L. The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy's Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011.
Book de la Pedraja, Rene. A Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
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Book de Saumarez, James, and A.N. Ryan. The Saumarez Papers: Selections from the Baltic Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez , 1808-1812 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 110). London: Navy Records Society, 1968.
Book Delgado, James P. Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.
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Book Delgado, James P., and Hans Van Tilburg. The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor: The Rediscovery and Archaeology of Japan's Top-secret Midget Submarines of World War II. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
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Book Delgado, James P. War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Book Dent, Graham. Goldsmiths of Grays: "Pickfords of the North Sea"; A History and Fleet Biography. Ware, Hertfordshire: Chaffcutter Books, 2018.
Web Department of Defence, Australian Government. The Fleet - Royal Australian Navy. Canberra: Royal Australian Navy, 2010. Go there
Web Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Australian National Shipwreck Database. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia, Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts.
Book Dick, H.W. Beancaker to Boxboat: Steamship Companies in Chinese Waters. Canberra: Nautical Association of Australia, 1988.
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Book Dick, H.W., and S.A. Kentwell. Sold East: Traders, Tramps, and Tugs of Chinese Waters. Melbourne: Nautical Association of Australia, 1991.
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Book Dickinson, Harry W. Wisdom and War: The Royal Naval College Greenwich, 1873-1998. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.
Book Dillon, William Henry, and Michael Arthur Lewis. A Narrative of My Professional Adventures (1790-1839), Vol. 1, 1790-1802 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 93). London: Navy Records Society, 1953.
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Book Dillon, William Henry, and Michael A. Lewis. A Narrative of My Professional Adventures (1790-1839): Vol. 2, 1802-1839 (Navy Records Society, vol. 97). London: Navy Records Society, 1956.
Book Divine, David. These Splendid Ships: The Story of the Peninsular and Oriental Line. London: F. Muller, 1960.
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Book Dodge, Ernest S. Beyond the Capes : Pacific exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877. London: Victor Gallancz Ltd, 1971.
Book Donnan, Elizabeth. Documents Illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America : Volume II The Eighteenth Century. New York: Octagon Books, 1969.
Book Donnan, Elizabeth. Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America. New York: Octagon Books, 1969.