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

• Maritime Memorials for those that perished at sea

The Royal Navy

• History of the Royal Navy

• The Royal Naval Museum

• How to trace Royal Navy Personnel

Merchant Shipping

• The Federation Of Merchant Mariners

• Maritime History of the Merchant Sailing Shipsof 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

Place Specific

• Bristol Channel Pilots

• Cardiff mariners

• History of Portsmouth Dockyard

• Royal Dockyard Devonport

• Devonport Dockyard

• Merseyside maritime museum

• Sailing Navies

• Maritime History of Llyn, Wales

• Granton and Leith Trawlers

Nautical Terms

• The Seaman's Grammar and Dictionary, 1691

• A Dictionary of Sea Terms

• Naautical abbreviations

Miscellaneous

• Biographies of the crew of The Bounty

• British Coastguards 1841 - 1901

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