Maritime By Topic History

Sites pertaining to maritime history. For example the history of sailing, maritime trade, naval architecture, navigation, naval warfare, exploration, and related topics.

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• Maritime History Citations for the Oxford English Dictionary - Historical nautical terminology.
  
• The Spice Routes - Essay of routes from Southeast Asia to Africa and onward from the ancient to medieval periods focusing on the Cinnamon Route and the Clove Route.
  
• The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives - Provides information and documents about steamships including brochures, passenger lists, and immigration documents.
  
• Chicago Maritime Society - Features a collection of Eastland Disaster artifacts and historical information. Offers programs, research, a kids section, and community outreach.
  
• USN Ship Naming - Ship naming in the united states navy.
  
• Australia's Maritime World - Australia's maritime history and current attractions, activities and adventures for sea, ship and shore lovers.
  
• Ship Names - An alphabetical list of US Navy ships.
  
• The Last Ocean Liners - Trade routes and sailing schedules including images and facts.
  
• The Kentish Knock Company - Forum on military and naval history, especially the Anglo-Dutch Wars and history of warship design.
  
• Hakluyt Society - Promoting public knowledge of records on the history of exploration, navigation, maritime history and travels.
  
• Sailing Ships - Descriptions, sketches and photographs of ships from the Viking period to Modern times.
  
• The Age of Sail - Includes pictures of modern tall ships, nautical engravings for sale and archived for research, and 200 photographs of ocean liners from the 1960s.
  
• Latitude - The art and science of fifteenth century navigation.
  
• Schooner Man - A site for lovers of all tall ships.
  
• Blue Funnel Line - Sail into the past and visit my Blue Funnel Line pages. From Astyanax and Automedon to Gastor and Nestor.
  
• Internet Naval History - Comprehensive guide to twentieth century naval history by a published naval author. Includes a guide to finding information on ex-naval relatives and the warships they served on.
  
• Captain John Smith: Four Hundred Project - The history, schedule, reenactment voyage, information on the John Smith Water Trail, and educational resources.
  
• World Ship Society - International non-profit organization for maritime and naval history. Publishes Marine News and organizes local branches.
  
• Ships Nostalgia - Forum and discussion board on general issues, people, ships and shipping, navies, and other maritime issues including galleries.
  
• A History of Navigation - Flash animation plotting the history of navigation through the ages from the BBC.
  
• Archives and Collections Society - A not-for-profit foundation dedicated to maritime heritage and history, preservation and conservation, research and education through the written word and the arts.
  
• The Mariners' Museum: Age of Exploration - On-line exhibition showing maritime discovery from ancient times to Captain Cook's 1768 voyage to the South Pacific.
  
• The Naval Order of the United States - The history and heritage society of the United States sea services.
  
• Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - Traditional navigation by Pacific islanders involves no compasses or charts.
  
• Traditional Boats and Tall Ships Magazine - A bi-monthly magazine for lovers of sail. Includes selected magazine articles, reviews, discussion forum, photo gallery, and related links.
  
• Farewell to the China Boats - Photographs of life at sea in the Blue Funnel Line in the mid-20th century, reports of a WWII lifeboat journey, and old mariners' documents.
  
• The Maritime History Virtual Archives - A compendium of naval history, seamanship, ships, duties of officers and men.
  
• Practical Shipping Vocabulary - Term and abbreviation finder. Searchable database containing common marine terms, acronyms and abbreviations.
  
• Ship Force Levels - U.S. Navy active ship force levels, 1917-1998.
  
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park - A fleet of historic vessels at Hyde Street Pier, a maritime museum, and library. Boatbuilding and woodworking workshops.
  
• BIship - All subjects connected with the shipping company British India Steam Navigation.
  
• Les Corsaires - Features a database about French privateers including name, harbor, boat, and century.
  
• MaritimeDigital Archive - Focuses on the history and specifications of vessels that includes photos, scanned papers and postcards.
  
• Haze Gray & Underway - Extensive naval history and photography site.
  
• Carl Ossian Johnson - Swedish pioneer in the South African fishing and whaling industry.
  
• International Journal of Naval History - A forum of naval history designed to stimulate naval historical research and to foster communication among naval historians. Current and archived issues, editorial board listings, letters, and submission guidelines.
  
• Royal Navy Songs & Ditties - A comprehensive collection and their histories.
  
• Urbain's Nautical Page - Articles of European origin with photographs.
  
• Sailing Navies 1650-1850 - Information on naval operations during the period 1650-1850 and a listing of age of sail related fiction.
  
• South Seas - Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific - An online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800.
  
• The Texas Navies - Historical information and pictures of the three Texas Navies - the first two fighting in Texas' war with Mexico, the third being a modern association.
  
• Robert Napier - A biography by Brian D. Osborne of the "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding", printed by Dumbarton District Libraries (1991).
  
• Maritime Heritage Network - Features attractions, organizations, stories of native traditions, intrepid explorers, pioneer sea captains and vessels, industrialists, and ordinary working people, and learning resources.
  
• Through Mighty Seas - Sailing ships and schooners of the North West of England (Lancaster, Barrow, Whitehaven, Maryport, Workington and the Isle of Man).
  
• King Island Maritime Heritage Trail - A virtual tour via clickable map of shipwrecks, lighthouses, ports and related sites around this island between Australia and Tasmania.
  
• The Battle of the Saintes - The 1782 naval battle which revolutionised naval tactics and changed Caribbean history for 200 years.
  
• NOVA: Longitude - NOVA Online presents the search for longitude.
  
• World Ship Trust - International organization dedicated to preservation of historic ships, merchant and military.
  
• Maritime History of the Great Lakes - Collection of original documents and links, including ship lists, regional histories, government reports, and newspaper accounts on shipping on the St. Lawrence River and these North American lakes.
  
• Merchant Navy Nostalgia - British merchant ships of the 40's, 50's and 60's with history and pictures.
  
• Maritime Heritage Project - Passengers, ships, and captains arriving in San Francisco in the 19th century, plus news and tall tales of the Barbary Coast.
  
• French Lines - This archive collection retraces 150 years of French maritime history through the history of famous liners (Normandie, France) and merchant navy.
  
• Jack Hall: The Matchstick Man - A collection of created musical instruments eight decades ago while working on board an American owned tramp steamer.
  
  

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