Resources Included in the ShipIndex.org Database

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.

Book Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919. London: Chatham Publishing, 2006.
Book Hewett, Janet B., ed. Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 2001.
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.
Book Hill, Frederic B. Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs: The Rise and Fall of the Crooker Shipyard in Bath, Maine. Lanham, MD: Down East Books, 2016.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book Howe, Octavius T., M.D., and Frederick C. Matthews. American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1926.
Book Howgego, Raymond John, . Encyclopedia of exploration to 1800 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel, and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800. Potts Point: Hordern House, 2003.
Book Eleanor Hughes, et al. Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-century British Marine Painting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
Book Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949.
Book Hurst, Alex A. Square-riggers, the Final Epoch, 1921-1958. Sussex, U.K.: Teredo Books, 1972.
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.
Book Ingpen, Brian D. Unicorn: Navigating New Frontiers. Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 2003.
Book Ingram, C.W.N. New Zealand Shipwrecks, 1795-1970. Wellington, NZ: A.H. & A. W. Reed, 1974.
Book Irving, David John Cawdell. The destruction of convoy PQ. 17. 1968: Cassell, London.
Book Jackson, Gordon. The British Whaling Trade. London: Adam & Charles Black, 2004.
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.
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.
Book Jackson, Walter A. The Doghole Schooners. Volcano, Calif.: California Traveler, 1969.
Book Jaffee, Walter W. Heritage of the Sea: the Training Ships of Maine Maritime Academy. Palo Alto, CA: Glencannon Press: Maritime Books, 2000.
Book Jaffee, Walter W. The Liberty Ships from A (A.B. Hammond) to Z (Zona Gale). Palo Alto, Calif.: Glencannon Press, 2004.
Book Jaffee, Walter W. The Tankers From A (A.W. Peake) to Z (Zephyrhills). Palo Alto: The Glencannon Press, 2008.
Book Jaffee, Walter W. The troopships and passenger liners from A (Admiral C.F. Hughes) to Z (United States). El Cerrito: Glencannon Press, 2012.
Book Jaffee, Walter W. The Tugboats From A (A.G. Wells) To Z (USS Zuni). El Cerrito, California: The Glencannon Press, 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book Jensen, John Odin. Stories from the Wreckage: a Great Lakes Maritime History Inspired by Shipwrecks. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2019.
Book Jentschura, Hansgeorg, Dieter Jung, and Peter Mickel. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1977.
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.
Book Johnston, William Cameron. The Seabound Coast : the Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867-1939. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010.
Book Jones, A. G. E. Ships employed in the South Seas trade 1775-1861 (Parts I and II), and, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Transcripts of registers of shipping 1787-1862 (Part III). Canberra: A Roebuck Book, 1986.
Book Jones, A. G. E., Dale Chatwin. Ships employed in the South Seas trade, 1775-1859. Volume 3. Hobart, Tasmania: Navarine Publishing, 2014.
Book Jones, A.G.E. Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, 1775-1859 (Part I); Admiralty Protections from Impressment, 1777-1811 (Part II); Aspects of the South Seas Trade (Part III). Aranda, ACT: Roebuck Society, 1992.
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.
Book Jones, Jerry W. U.S. Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
Book Jones, Ken, and Hubert Kelley, Jr. Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke: The Story of a Fighting Sailor. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, A Division of Chilton Company, 1962. New
Book Jones, R. J. Cornewall. The British Merchant Service Being A History of The British Mercantile Marine From the Earliest Times to the Present Day With Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., 1898. New
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.
Book Jordan, David. Wolfpack: The U-boat War and the Allied Counter-attack, 1939-1945. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2002.
Book Jordan, John, and Robert Dumas. French Battleships 1922-1956. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
Book Jordan, John, and Jean Moulin. French Cruisers, 1922-1956. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2013.
Book Jordan, John. Warships after Washington: the Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015.
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 Kaplan, David A. Mine's Bigger : Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Book Karamanski, Theodore J. Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Book Kimber, Stephen. Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. Toronto: Anchor, 2003.
Book Kludas, Arnold. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 1: 1858-1912. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
Book Kludas, Arnold, Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 2: 1913-1923. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
Book Kludas, Arnold, Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 3: 1924-1935. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1976.
Book Kludas, Arnold, Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 4: 1936-1950. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1977.
Book Kludas, Arnold, Charles Hodges. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 5: 1951-1976. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1977.
Book Arnold Kludas, Keith Lewis. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Volume 6: 1977-1986. Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens, 1986.
Book Knight, R.J.B. Guide to the Manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum.: Volume I The Personal Collections. London: Mansell, 1977.
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.
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.