Resources Included in ShipIndex.org Database

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Book Hegarty, Reginald B., Philip F. Purrington, and Alexander Starbuck. Returns of Whaling Vessels Sailing From American Ports: A Continuation of Alexander Starbuck's "History of the American Whaling Fishery," 1876-1928. New Bedford, Mass.: Old Dartmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum, 1959.
Book Hegarty, Reginald B., comp. Addendum to "Starbuck" and "Whaling Masters": New Bedford Customs District. New Bedford, Mass.: New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964.
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Book Heidler, David Stephen, and Jeanne T. Heidler. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
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Web Helgason, Gudmundur, , ed. uboat.net. Reykjavik, Iceland: G. Helgason, 1995-2011.
Book Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield, UK: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1994.
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Book Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919. London: Chatham Publishing, 2006.
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Book Hewett, Janet B., ed. Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 2001.
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Book Heyl, Erik. Early American Steamers (Volumes 1-6). Buffalo, NY: Erik Heyl, 1953-1969.
Book Hill, Alexander , Felipe Rodriguez. Soviet Destroyers of World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2018.
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Web Historical Collections of the Great Lakes. Great Lakes Vessels Online Index. Bowling Green, Ohio: BGSU Libraries. Go there
Book Hollett, David. Passage to the New World: Packet Ships and Irish Famine Emigrants, 1845-1851. Abergavenny, Great Britain: P.M. Heaton Publishing, 1995.
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Book Holly, David C. Chesapeake Steamboats: Vanished Fleet. Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Book Hood, Viscount Samuel, and David Hannay. Letters Written by Sir Samuel Hood (Viscount Hood) in 1781-2-3 (Navy Records Society Vol. 3). London: Navy Records Society, 1895.
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Book Hooper, Ralph W., and Rodney P. Carlisle. Oil & Water: The Story of Interstate Oil Transport. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Independence Seaport Museum, 2003.
Book Hore, Peter, and National Maritime Museum. The Habit of Victory: The Story of the Royal Navy, 1545 to 1945. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005.
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Web Hoskin, John E. Flotilla Australia.  John E. Hoskin, 2007-12. Go there
Book Hough, Richard. Fighting Ships. New York: Putnam, 1969.
Book Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991. New York: Random House, 1991.
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Book Howe, Octavius T., M.D., and Frederick C. Matthews. American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1926.
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Book Eleanor Hughes, et al. Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-century British Marine Painting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
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Book Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949.
Book Huycke, Harold D. . To Santa Rosalia: Further and Back. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1970.
Book Hyde, Francis E. , J.R. Harris and A.M. Bourn. Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830-1939: Harrisons of Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1967.
Book Hyde, Francis E., and J. R. Harris. Blue Funnel: A History of the Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, from 1865 to 1914. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 1957.
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Book Ingram, C.W.N. New Zealand Shipwrecks, 1795-1970. Wellington, NZ: A.H. & A. W. Reed, 1974.
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Book Jackson, John W. . The Pennsylvania Navy, 1775-1781: The Defense of the Delaware. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
Book Jackson, Melvin H. . The Historic American Merchant Marine Survey: Works Progress Administration, Federal Project No. 6. Salem, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1983.
Book Jackson, Robert . Kriegsmarine: The Illustrated History of the German Navy in World War II. London: Aurum, 2001.
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Book Jackson, Robert M. The Ships' Locator: A Reference to Over 2,000 Ships, Schooners, and Other Vessels of Nineteenth-Century New England and the Atlantic Seaboard. Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1998.
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Book Jackson, Walter A. The Doghole Schooners. Volcano, Calif.: California Traveler, 1969.
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Book Jaffee, Walter W. The Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale). Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon Press, 2004.
Web Jakota Cruise Systems. FleetMon. Rostock, Germany: JAKOTA Cruise Systems GmbH, 2012-. Go there
Book James, Alan, Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza, Malcolm H. Murfett. European Navies and the Conduct of War. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Book James, Bartholomew, John Knox Laughton, James Young F. Sullivan. The Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752-1828 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 6). London: Navy Records Society, 1896.
Book Jane, Fred T. The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day. London: Tri-Service Press, 1990.
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Book Jean, John. Jersey Sailing Ships. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1982.
Book Jellicoe, John Rushworth. The Grand Fleet, 1914-16: Its Creation, Development and Work. New York: G.H. Doran, 1919.
Book Jellicoe, John Rushworth, and A. Temple Patterson. The Jellicoe Papers: Selections From the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe of Scapa, Vol. 1 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 108). Shortlands (Kent): Navy Records Society, 1966.
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Book Jellicoe, John Rushworth, and A. Temple Patterson. The Jellicoe Papers: Selections From the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe of Scapa, Vol. 2 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 111) . Shortlands (Kent): Navy Records Society, 1968.
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Book Jentschura, Hansgeorg, Dieter Jung, and Peter Mickel. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1977.
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Web John H March Maritime Research Centre. John H Marsh Maritime Photos Collection. Cape Town, South Africa: The Centre. Go there Resource requires subscription
Book Johnson, Robert Erwin. Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
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Web Jones, A. G. E., Dale Chatwin, and Rhys Richards. British Southern Whale Fishery Voyage Database. Hull, UK: Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull.
Book Jones, Ben. The Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War (Navy Records Society, Vol. 159). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012.
Book Jones, Colin. Australian Colonial Navies. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1986.
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Book Jones, Jerry W. U.S. Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
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Book Jordan, Roger W. The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939: The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships. London: Chatham Pub., 1999.
Book Jordan, Borimir. The Athenian Navy in the Classical Period. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1975.
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Book Jordan, David. Wolfpack: The U-boat War and the Allied Counter-attack, 1939-1945. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2002.
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Book Jordan, John . Warships after Washington: the Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015.
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Book Jose, Arthur W. The Royal Australian Navy, 1914-1918 (Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. 9). Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943.
Book Kåhre, Georg. The Last Tall Ships: Gustaf Erikson and the Åland Sailing Fleets, 1872-1947. Greenwich, England: Conway Maritime Press, 1990.
Book Kane, Adam I. The Western River Steamboat. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Book Karamanski, Theodore J. Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
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Book Karig, Walter, Eric Purdon. Battle Report: Pacific War: Middle Phase (Battle Report Series Volume 3). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1947.
Book Karig, Walter, Welbourn Kelley. Battle Report: Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea (Battle Report Series Volume 1). New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944.
Book Karig, Walter, Earl Burton, and Stephen L. Freeland. Battle Report: The Atlantic War (Battle Report Series Volume 2). New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, 1946.
Book Karig, Walter, Russell L. Harris, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: The End of An Empire (Battle Report Series Volume 4). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.
Book Karig, Walter, Malcolm W. Cagle, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: The War in Korea (Battle Report Series Volume 6). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1952.
Book Karig, Walter, Russell L. Harris, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific (Battle Report Series Volume 5). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1949.
Web Kelton Foundation. Blue World Web Museum. Santa Monica, CA: Kelton Foundation, 2009-. Go there
Book Kemble, John Haskell. San Francisco Bay: a Pictorial Maritime History. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1957.
Book Kemble, John Haskell. The Book of the Anchor Line: An Outline of the Company's Activities and Progress from its Inception in 1852 until the End of 1931. London: Burrow, 1932.
Book Kemp, Lieut.-Cmdr. P. K., O.B.E. History of the Royal Navy. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.
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Book Kemp, Paul. Convoy Protection: The Defence of Seaborne Trade. London: Arms and Armour, 1993.
Book Kemp, Paul. Midget Submarines of the Second World War. London: Chatham Pub., 1999.
Book Kemp, Paul. U-Boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Book Kemp, Paul. Underwater Warriors. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Book Kemp, Paul J. The T-Class Submarine: The Classic British Design. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Book Kennedy, Don H. Ship Names: Origins and Usages During 45 Centuries. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia for the Mariner's Museum, 1974.
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Book Kennedy, Joseph. When Singapore Fell: Evacuations and Escapes, 1941-42. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
Book Kerr, George Fleming. Business in Great Waters: The War History of the P. & O. (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company), 1939-1945. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1951.
Book Kert, Faye Margaret. Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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Book Keyes, Roger, and Paul G. Halpern. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Vol. 1 (Navy Records Society Vol. 117). London: Navy Records Society, 1972.
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Book Keyes, Roger. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Vol. 2 (Navy Records Society Vol. 121). London: Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society.
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Book Keyes, Roger. The Keyes Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge, Vol. 3 (Navy Records Society Vol. 122) . London: Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society, 1981.
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Book Knighton, C. S. , Loades, D. M.; Pepys Library; and British Library. The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy: Pepys Library 2991 and British Library Additional MS 22047, With Related Documents (Navy Records Society occasional vol. 2). Aldershot, Hants, England; and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, for the Navy Records Society, 2000.
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Book Knighton, C. S. , and D. M. Loades. Elizabethan Naval Administration (Navy Records Society, Vol. 160). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013.
Book Knighton, C. S., and D. M. Loades. The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Navy Records Society, vol. 157). Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011.
Book Knoblock, Glenn A. The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920: A Comprehensive History, with a List of Builders and Their Ships. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Inc., 2014.
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Book Knox, Dudley W., Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 1: Naval Operations from February 1797 to October 1798. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
Book Knox, Dudley W., Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Naval Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 2: Naval Operations from November 1798 to March 1799. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
Book Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 3: Naval Operations from April 1799 to July 1799. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1936.
Book Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 4: Naval Operations from August 1799 to December 1799 . Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
Book Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 5: Naval Operations from January 1800 to May 1800. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1937.
Book Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 6: Naval Operations from June 1800 to November 1800. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1938.
Book Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Naval Department. Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 7: Naval Operations from December 1800 to December 1801. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1938.
Book Knox, Dudley W. Register of Officer Personnel: United States Navy and Marine Corps and Ships' Data, 1801-1807. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945.
Book Kooiman, William. The Grace Ships, 1869-1969: An Illustrated History of the W.R. Grace & Co. Shipping Enterprises. Point Reyes, CA: Komar Publishing, 1990.
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Book La Guardia, Fiorello H., and Writers' Program (New York, NY). A Maritime History of New York. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1941.
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Book Labaree, Benjamin W., and others. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport, 1998.
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Book Laing, Alexander. The American Heritage History of Seafaring America. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1974.
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Book Lambert, Nicholas A. The Submarine Service, 1900-1918 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 142). Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2001.
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Book Lance, Kate. Redbill: From Pearls to Peace, The Life and Times of a Remarkable Lugger. North Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004.
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Book Lancour, Harold. A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825: Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. New York: New York Public Library, 1978. Go there
Book Lancour, Harold. Passenger Lists of Ships Coming to North America, 1607-1825: A Bibliography. New York: New York Public Library, 1937. Go there
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Book Lander, Patricia. Guide to Ferryboats of Puget Sound: Past and Present. Annapolis, Md.: Lighthouse Press, 2002.
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Book Lardas, Mark, Paul Wright. USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit : The War of 1812 on the Great Lakes. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2017.
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Web Larsson, Björn. Maritime Timetable Images.  Go there
Book Lass, William E. A History of Steamboating on the Upper Missouri River. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
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