Maritime History

General Links

• National Maritime Museum's Guide to Researching Family History from Maritime Records

• Lloyds Register of Ships 1764-2003

• Index to Lloyds Captains' Register

• UK Mariners Site- Links For All Things Nautical

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

• John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Pages Lots of links

• The Maritime History Virtual Archives

• Vessels & Enumeration in Census Records

• Maritime Memorials For Those That Perished at Sea

• The Ocean Liner Virtual Museum

• 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

• Kings Regulations & Admiralty Instructions - 1913. Abbreviations

The Royal Navy

The Royal Navy

Merchant Shipping

Records of Merchant Seamen

• The Federation Of Merchant Mariners

• Through Mighty Seas Maritime history of the merchant sailing ships of the North West of England

• British Merchant Ship Losses in World War I

• The Merchant Navy in World War 2

• 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

• How to Trace Merchant Mariners, Mates and Engineers Who Served in The Merchant Navy

Old Shipping Companies

• The White Star, Shaw Savill and Albion Lines

• The Caledonian Macbrayne Fleet

• The Union Castle Line - Staff Register

• The Dundee Perth and London Shipping Company

• History of the P & O Shipping Company

• Manchester Liners Old Shipmates Association

• The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company

Place Specific

England and the Channel Islands

• Port Cities Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London & Southampton

• Bristol Channel Pilots

• Brixham Heritage Sailing Trawlers Archive

• Tales of the Maritime Heritage of Cornwall

• Royal Dockyard Devonport

• Granton and Leith Trawlers

• Jersey Seaman's Benefit Society

• The History of Maritime Liverpool

• Liverpool Pilots

• Merseyside Maritime Museum

• Merseyside Shipping Snippets

• History of Portsmouth Dockyard

• South West Maritime History Society

• The Thames Sailing Barge Trust

• Thames Pilot

Wales

• Cardiff Mariners

• The Maritime History of Holyhead, inc. Ships Lost at War

• Maritime Llyn and the Sea.The Men, Ships and Ports of Llyn, Wales

Lighthouses

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

• Trinity House's Gallery of Lighthouses

• Map of UK Lighthouses in 1900, Scotland, Northern England and North of Ireland

• Map of UK Lighthouses in 1900, Southern England, The Channel Islands and South of Ireland

• History of Scottish Lighthouses

• Bellrock Lighthouse (off the Angus Coast)

• History of the Older Higher Lighthouse, Portland Bill

• A Brief History of Happisburgh Lighthouse

Lifeboats

• Grace Darling Museum Bamburgh Northumberland

• Shore Thing. Crew Member Archives of the RNLI

• 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

• Mumbles

• Portpatrick

• Ramsgate

• Sheerness

• Shoreham

• St Peter Port

• Swanage

• Thurso

• Walton and Frinton

• Wells-next-the-Sea

• Whitstable

Coastguards

• HM 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 Coastguard Service From The 18th Century to The Early 20th Century

Coastal Defences

• The South Coast Martello Towers

• Landguard Fort, Felixtowe

• The Needles Battery

• Newhaven Fort

• WW2 Coastal Defences Salthouse, Kelling & Weybourne, North Norfolk

• The Nothe Fort, Weymouth

• The Palmerston Forts Society Forts in Portsmouth Area

• Shoreham Fort

• The Maunsell Sea Forts, Whitstable

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

Shipwrecks

• Great British Shipwrecks

• Dorset Shipwrecks

• Chesil Beach Shipwrecks

• Shipwrecks off The Needles, Isle of Wight

• Isle of Man Shipwrecks

• Shipwrecks of Cork Harbour

• Shipwrecks off Victoria, Australia

The Fishing Industry

• Hull Trawler Losses of World War One

• The Brixham Sailing Trawlers Database

• History of Fishing at Burton Bradstock

• A Guide to Family History in Hull and Grimsby Fishing Archives (pdf file)

• The Fishing Industry in Hastings

• The Polperro Fishing Industry

• 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

• Berwick on Tweed Shipyard

• Clydeside Shipbuilding History

• The Whitehaven Shipbuilding Industry

• Chatham Dockyard

• Titanic in Belfast~Harland & Wolff

Miscellaneous

• Biographies of The Crew of The Bounty

• The Submarine Heritage Centre

• Payments to Mariners 1299-1300

• Index of Ships' Captains Australia and New Zealand

• Piers of England

• The Association of Dunkerque Little Ships

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