Merchant ships
Ships
Canadian Merchant Navy losses - during the Second World War
Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association - archival holdings
City of Madras - five ships of the same name
Fishing Ports and Port Registration Letters - European fishing vessel data.
Four masted ships - list based on a note in the Mariner's Mirror, 1933.
The Fitment and Decoration of Ships from the "Great Eastern" to the "Queen Mary".
Guillotine - Ship launching - response to a query from MarHst-l
Hilda R. - loss - 1917, possibly attacked near Gibraltar by a German submarine
The Jalbhut – a typical and fairly common form of dhow
The Lennie mutiny - an analysis of a somewhat rare occurence
Muscat dhows (English) || français - Muscat dhows: 1904 decision on French flagging.
Park ships - 10,000 DWT Cargo Ships, WWII
Rainbow Warrior - the Greenpeace ship mined in New Zealand
The FRONTENAC - in service 1817, first Canadian Steamer on the Great Lakes
The ONTARIO - in service 1817, first American Steamer on the Great Lakes
The SIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD - casualty on the Great Lakes, 7 Dec. 1842
The record-making Royal William 1833 - adapted from an article by William Wood
The Royal William Pioneer of Ocean Steam Navigation. - a paper by Archibald Campbell, Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Blue book of American shipping -- marine and naval directory; statistics of shipping and shipbuilding in America.
Ropner Shipping Company - fleet list, shipyard 1888-1931
The Molson steamer John Bull - June 1839, her loss after a fire.
Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association - archival holdings
City of Madras - five ships of the same name
Fishing Ports and Port Registration Letters - European fishing vessel data.
Four masted ships - list based on a note in the Mariner's Mirror, 1933.
The Fitment and Decoration of Ships from the "Great Eastern" to the "Queen Mary".
Guillotine - Ship launching - response to a query from MarHst-l
Hilda R. - loss - 1917, possibly attacked near Gibraltar by a German submarine
The Jalbhut – a typical and fairly common form of dhow
The Lennie mutiny - an analysis of a somewhat rare occurence
Muscat dhows (English) || français - Muscat dhows: 1904 decision on French flagging.
Park ships - 10,000 DWT Cargo Ships, WWII
Rainbow Warrior - the Greenpeace ship mined in New Zealand
The FRONTENAC - in service 1817, first Canadian Steamer on the Great Lakes
The ONTARIO - in service 1817, first American Steamer on the Great Lakes
The SIR FRANCIS BOND HEAD - casualty on the Great Lakes, 7 Dec. 1842
The record-making Royal William 1833 - adapted from an article by William Wood
The Royal William Pioneer of Ocean Steam Navigation. - a paper by Archibald Campbell, Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Blue book of American shipping -- marine and naval directory; statistics of shipping and shipbuilding in America.
Fleets
W.H. Cockerline Fleet - fleet details, 1885 to 1957Ropner Shipping Company - fleet list, shipyard 1888-1931
and shipwrecks
The MV Derbyshire - 2001 enquiry into her sinking, D. Faulkner, FRINA.The Molson steamer John Bull - June 1839, her loss after a fire.
Journals and magazines
The American Neptune - A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History, and Arts (includes index.)
Marines: Yachting - Guerre - Commerce - bi-monthly, French langauge.
Sea Breezes - the ship lover's magazine; includes a partial index of our collection.
Merchant navy, merchant marine - some references to our periodical holdings.
Marines: Yachting - Guerre - Commerce - bi-monthly, French langauge.
Sea Breezes - the ship lover's magazine; includes a partial index of our collection.
Merchant navy, merchant marine - some references to our periodical holdings.
Shanties, songs of the sea, and a tall tale
Sea shanties
Shanty Bibliography
The schooner BIGLER - a slow boat with a jubaju; five versions of a song about her
Johnny Crapaud - sea shanties and more.
Cheerily Man - the shanty Nancy Dawson or Sally Rackett
The Edmund Fitzgerald - the song of her loss
The Saga of the "WIFE OF BATH" Piano - humour for marine historians
Shanty Bibliography
The schooner BIGLER - a slow boat with a jubaju; five versions of a song about her
Johnny Crapaud - sea shanties and more.
Cheerily Man - the shanty Nancy Dawson or Sally Rackett
The Edmund Fitzgerald - the song of her loss
The Saga of the "WIFE OF BATH" Piano - humour for marine historians
Design, shipbuilding and shipyards
Bentinck boom
Capstan, cabestan, barbotin
Clipper ship early origins - a note by John Lyman in v. xxx of The Mariner's Mirror (1944)
Copper sheathing - some notes on its origins
Crémaillère
"The Scientific Study of Naval Architecture" - inaugural address by Francis Elgar, first Jobn Elder Professor of Naval Architecture, Glasgow University, 1884.
Seaworthiness of Sailing Rafts - an article by Edwin Doran, 1978
Snow? or Brig? - some notes on their differences
Tern schooners - H.I. Chapelle
The Revenue Marine’s First Steam Cutters - paddle wheels, vertical and horizontal, and the propeller
Early years of the propeller - Francis Pettit Smith, John Ericsson and more
Propeller patents - notes on their early development in the UK and US
A Treatise on the Screw Propeller - with various suggestions of improvement, by John Bourne, 1852
"Tonnage" of ships - a detailed study by G. Moorsom of measurement, laws and taxation up to 1855
Bethlehem Steel shipyards - an overview of all divisions, locations and yard names, merchant and naval
Commercial vessels built in U.S. shipyards - wartime production, includes Victories, Liberties and many more
Davie shipbuilding - a short history and links to more details, and
Davie shipbuilding - some visual mementos
Capstan, cabestan, barbotin
Clipper ship early origins - a note by John Lyman in v. xxx of The Mariner's Mirror (1944)
Copper sheathing - some notes on its origins
Crémaillère
"The Scientific Study of Naval Architecture" - inaugural address by Francis Elgar, first Jobn Elder Professor of Naval Architecture, Glasgow University, 1884.
Seaworthiness of Sailing Rafts - an article by Edwin Doran, 1978
Snow? or Brig? - some notes on their differences
Tern schooners - H.I. Chapelle
Early steam, propellers and paddle-wheels
The Germ - experimenting with horizontal paddle wheelsThe Revenue Marine’s First Steam Cutters - paddle wheels, vertical and horizontal, and the propeller
Early years of the propeller - Francis Pettit Smith, John Ericsson and more
Propeller patents - notes on their early development in the UK and US
A Treatise on the Screw Propeller - with various suggestions of improvement, by John Bourne, 1852
"Tonnage" of ships - a detailed study by G. Moorsom of measurement, laws and taxation up to 1855
Shipyards
North American shipyards and shipbuilding - General index, by yard name and ship types. Merchant and NavalBethlehem Steel shipyards - an overview of all divisions, locations and yard names, merchant and naval
Commercial vessels built in U.S. shipyards - wartime production, includes Victories, Liberties and many more
Davie shipbuilding - a short history and links to more details, and
Davie shipbuilding - some visual mementos
Various
The Bounty's anchor - a note in The Mariner's Mirror v. xliii
Cockpit - origins and use of the term, maritime and earonautical
Cruikshank illustration for Smollett - Roderick Random
Davy Jones - and his locker
Dictionary of Sea Terms - from Darcy Lever's Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
Le Havre - French port (history, etc)
Holms, A Campbell, Practical shipbuilding; 1916, pdf file spar making, rivetting; also see catalogue entry.
Marine propulsion - rotating nozzle - Eaton's U.S. Patent No. 21,825 (19 October 1858)
A Maritime history of Cuba - from pre-Coumbus days to the ealy twentieth century
Mast partners
Merchant Navy - badges use in the merchant navy
The North American Fisheries - as described in 1854
Quintal - a unit of weight measurement, historical and geographic variants.
Roundhouse and "Kidnapped"
Russell, John Scott: - John Scott Russell; early wave theory
Salt in Marine Boilers - from Henry Evers, LL.D., Steam and the Steam Engine, 1873.
Seamen's Societies - Seamen's Societies, backgrounf and libraries
Ship Captain's Medical Guide - Henry Leach, 5th edition, 1871.
Smith and Rhuland, Lunenburg, NS
SOS, CQD and other emergency signals
Squilgee, squillgee, squillagee, squeegee
Tall Ships - what are they?
Tern schooners - H.I. Chapelle
Viking research Remote Resource Regions for Norse Greenland, F.C. Ljungqvist
Worm, parcel and serve various notes
Cockpit - origins and use of the term, maritime and earonautical
Cruikshank illustration for Smollett - Roderick Random
Davy Jones - and his locker
Dictionary of Sea Terms - from Darcy Lever's Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
Le Havre - French port (history, etc)
Holms, A Campbell, Practical shipbuilding; 1916, pdf file spar making, rivetting; also see catalogue entry.
Marine propulsion - rotating nozzle - Eaton's U.S. Patent No. 21,825 (19 October 1858)
A Maritime history of Cuba - from pre-Coumbus days to the ealy twentieth century
Mast partners
Merchant Navy - badges use in the merchant navy
The North American Fisheries - as described in 1854
Quintal - a unit of weight measurement, historical and geographic variants.
Roundhouse and "Kidnapped"
Russell, John Scott: - John Scott Russell; early wave theory
Salt in Marine Boilers - from Henry Evers, LL.D., Steam and the Steam Engine, 1873.
Seamen's Societies - Seamen's Societies, backgrounf and libraries
Ship Captain's Medical Guide - Henry Leach, 5th edition, 1871.
Smith and Rhuland, Lunenburg, NS
SOS, CQD and other emergency signals
Squilgee, squillgee, squillagee, squeegee
Tall Ships - what are they?
Tern schooners - H.I. Chapelle
Viking research Remote Resource Regions for Norse Greenland, F.C. Ljungqvist
Worm, parcel and serve various notes
