Maritime History

General Sites

• UK Mariners Site-lots of links for all things Nautical

• Late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History - Index

• The Mother of All Maritime Links-John's nautical links list

• The Maritime History Virtual Archives

• Vessels and enumeration in census records

• Maritime Memorials for those that perished at sea

• Dictionary of Disasters at Sea 1824 - 1962 Although this is a French site, the Dictionary is in English. It includes steam ships, sailing ships and ships of war lost in action.

Old Nautical Terms

• The Seaman's Grammar and Dictionary, 1691

• Lever's 1908 Dictionary of Sea Terms

• Nautical abbreviations Taken from The Kings Regulations & Admiralty Instructions 1913

The Royal Navy

See separate pages

Merchant Shipping

• The Federation Of Merchant Mariners

• Maritime History of the Merchant Sailing Ships of the North West of England and the Isle of Man, through the period from the late 1700's until the First World War

• British Merchant Sailor deaths in World War 1

• Merchant Navy losses in World War 2

• The Crew List Merchant seafarers on British registered ships between 1861 and 1913.

• How to Trace Merchant Navy Personnel

Old Shipping Companies

• The Shaw Lines

Place Specific

• Bristol Channel Pilots

• Cardiff mariners

• History of Portsmouth Dockyard

• Royal Dockyard Devonport

• Devonport Dockyard

• Merseyside maritime museum

• Maritime History of Llyn, Wales

• Granton and Leith Trawlers

Lighthouses

• Lighthouse Personnel in England, Wales and the Channel Islands c. 1790-1911

• Trinity House's Gallery of Lighthouses

• History of Scottish Lighthouses

• History of the Older Higher Lighthouse on Portland Bill

• A brief History of Happisburgh Lighthouse

Lifeboats

• A site dedicated to the Lifeboat men of Whitby who lost their lives in 1861

Many other Lifeboat stations have their own history sites, often with old Crew Lists and Photographs - these include:-

• Aberystwyth

• Burnham-on-Crouch

• Burnham-on-Sea

• Dover

• Falmouth

• Gravesend

• Lyme Regis

• Ramsgate

• Sheerness

• Shoreham

• St Peter Port

• Swanage

• Thurso

• Walton and Frinton

• Wells-next-the-Sea

• Whitstable

Coastguards

• History of the Coastguard

• British Coastguards 1841 - 1901

• History of the Coastguard with particular reference to Wick and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

• History of Walton on the Naze Coastguard 1851-1901

• A brief History of the Tenby Coastguard Service

• History of the Isle of Barra Coastguard

• The Irish Coaatguard Service from the 18th Century to the early 20th Century

Smuggling

• A History of British Smuggling

• A History of Smuggling in East Dorset

• The History of Smuggling in Polperro

• Smuggling in and around Burton Bradstock

The Fishing Industry

• Hull Trawler Losses of World War One

• A Guide to Family History in Hull and Grimsby Fishing Archives

• A History of Trawler Fishing in Hull

• The Fishing Industry in Hastings

• The Brixham Sailing Trawlers Database

• The Polperro Fishing Industry

• History of Fishing at Burton Bradstock

• Irish Sea Herring Fisheries in the 18th and 19th Century

• A History of the Scottish Fishing Industry

• The Stonehaven Fishing Industry

• The History of Fraserburgh's Fishing Fleet

• Buckie and District Fishing Heritage

• Milford Haven Trawlers

Shipbuilding

• The Shipbuiliding Industry of North East England 1790-1899

• The Whitehaven Shipbuilding industry

• Chatham Dockyard

• Titanic in Belfast~Harland & Wolff

Miscellaneous

• Biographies of the crew of The Bounty

• The Titanic

• The Submarine Heritage Centre

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