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Please Note: While I do try to keep these pages updated, I cannot guarentee the content of these sites. Unfortunately, as one Australian librarian pointed out (Thanks Darryl! Much appreciated!) , some of the defunct .com addresses (especially one formerly run by a well-known Norwegian shipping company) have been grabbed by some rather unsavory sites - which results in a very unpleasant shock when you are looking for shipping company data....
NAVAL SHIPS
U.S. NAVAL LINKS
PT BOAT LINKS
CANADIAN NAVAL
LINKS
SHIPS OF OTHER
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
LINKS TO OTHER NAVIES ARCHIVE LINKS
MERCHANT MARINE/MERCHANT
NAVY / SHIPPING LINKS TITANIC LINKS
TALL SHIPS AND SAIL TRAINING
ASSOCIATION LINKS FAMOUS SHIP LINKS
YACHTS,
YACHTING, SAIL
SHIPYARDS &
DESIGNERS PHOTOGRAPHS
SHIPS IN BOTTLES
AIRCRAFT SITES
OTHER MODELING SITES ON THE
WEB COMMERCIAL PLANS
AND MODELING SUPPLIES
NAVAL SHIP LINKSU.S. NAVAL LINKSNavy Hydromechanics
Directorate
U.S. Navy - The U.S. Navy's Home page
FAS Ship
Index A great info source, part of the FAS Military Analysis
Network that contains a comprehensive guide to the major classes of
serving US Navy ships with data, photos, plans and links
Photos
of serving U.S. Navy ships
U.S. Ships and their Home Pages
NavSource - Paul Yarnel's ship's
history site packed with photos, mainly destroyers and frigates. Paul
also maintains the
Dictionary of American
Fighting Ships - a growing on-line version of the multi-volume
Dictionary of American Fighting Ships. A project of:
Haze Gray Shipbuilding
Pages. Quincy Mass Their naval history section is
particularly useful. As well as their U.S. Navy Ship Notes
and the World Navies
Pages
Historic Naval Ships
Association - photos and histories of existing Historic Naval Ships
(American)
The Greyhound Navy ???? - a
site dedicated to the Spruance class destroyers
New London
Sumarine School -Home Page of the US Navy'ssubmarine school.
Naval Historical Center
Navy
Factfile - information on ships, aircraft, weapons of the present
day U.S. Navy
DD248 USS Barry
- Kenn Anderson's site devoted to Four Stackers Destroyers and his
father's ship the USS Barry in particular.
Tin Can Sailors - The
National Organization of Destroyer Veterans
HyperWar - the
U.S. Navy in World War II, ships, chronology, links.
U.S. Naval Institute
U.S. Naval Academy
US Naval Academy Alumni Page
Navy On-Line - Department
of the Navy Home Page
Home Pages of U.S.
Navy Ships - a hyper-text link to all U.S. Navy official ship's
home pages
www Virtual Library -
Naval and Maritime links on the WWW - maintained by Homeport: the
United States Naval Academy Alumni On-line Community.
PT BOAT LINKSCANADIAN NAVAL
LINKS
SHIPS OF OTHER
GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIESLINKS TO OTHER
NAVIESNETHERLANDS
The Official
Royal Netherlands Navy Page - in Dutch.
RUSSIA
Robin Lee's page
a page devoted the State of the Russian Navy
PORTUGAL
The official Portuguese Navy
homepage (in Portuguese)
BELGIUM
The official
Belgian Navy home Page in English, French, or Dutch
FRANCE
The official French Navy site
(in French)
SPAIN
The Unofficial
Spanish Navy Page in Spanish or English
JAPAN
Official home page
of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force
Coast Guard
GERMANY
German Navy English version of
the official German Navy website
Coast Guard English version of the Federal German Coast Guard - the Küstenwache
AUSTRALIA
Australian Naval Institute
Royal Australian Navy Net (formerly Bob York's R.A.N. Net Web Site)
GREAT BRITAIN
Royal Navy The official
Royal Navy Page at the Ministry of Defense
British Ships Web Pages
- ships of Britain's Naval and Merchant history, the Royal Navy's
surface ships and submarines, Merchant Fleets, Ship Losses in WW II
?????
A Voyage Of Discovery, a
website about ships, shipbuilding and communications" is also worth a
visit.
Flagship
Portsmouth- the home page for the Flagship Portsmouth Trust a
display of ships, exhibitions, and buildings at the historic home of
the Royal Navy
ARCHIVE LINKSMarine
Archeology Links A list of marine archeology and museum links
provided by the Marine Museum of Western Australia
Marine Museums Online
- Bob Smith's (no relation - just one of the many!) guide to the Marine
and Maritime Museums that have web sites on the WWW
Canadian
Ships Information Database - an extensive, on-line searchable
registry of Canadian ships compiled from the old ship's registry books.
MERCHANT
MARINE/MERCHANT NAVY / SHIPPING LINKSAmerican
President Lines This page contains the histories, particulars and
photos of all ships that sailed under the APL flag from 1904 to the
present
Mitsui OSK Line -
offers a feature called the "Captain's Cabin" which features photos,
posters and periodically updated short stories on life at sea
ACL Shipping Lines Ltd - good
cut away drawing of a G3L Ro/Ro container ship.
Tugboats - a site devoted to,
what else, tug boats, big ones, little ones...
Offshore Supply Vessels -
Some nice photos here by photographer JD Dodds of Oil rig tugs, and
supply vessels entering Aberdeen harbor.
British India Steam Navigation - a
site dealing with the former British India Line, complete with a
listing of all ships that served under the BI flag - perfect source for
anyone seeking information about this company
Tidewater Off Shore - some
nice photos here of the Tidewater Fleet
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
U.S. Maritime Administration has
a gallery of American ship photos as well as a series of articles on
the history of the American Merchant Marine in WWII
BHP Transport,
Melbourne, Australia - a listing of the 60 ships - from tugs to bulk
carriers, container ships and tankers - that they operate with photos
of a few.
SeaView, provides all
kinds of information on "the passenger ships that travel the great
oceans and waterways of the world."
Iver Ship of Larvik, Norway has
some fine photos of their chemical and product tankers here
Commercial
Ship Information Center -Looking for a secondhand container ship
or supertanker? Here's an on-line classified listing of merchant ships
for sale around the world
Waterman Steamship, New
York -Waterman has a special section on the Military Sealift
Command Vessels they operate for the U.S. Navy
U.S. Transportation Institute
- Here you find an on-line glossary of
maritime terminology, signal flags, and maritime quotes as well as
articles of historical interest
The Merchant
Mariner's Homeport -
Links - a
list of non-military maritime links.
Maersk Line - Home page of A.P.
Møller & Co with a gallery and listing of all their of ships
TITANIC LINKSWith over 26,000 pages of Titanic material on the web there is such a mass of material to choose from that I could fill a whole links page and more with them... But, if you're really hungry for a few more, here are some extra ones:
TITANIC - the homepage
of James Cameron's hit movie
RMS Titanic, Inc - The
web site of the only company currently authorized by U.S. courts to
recover artifacts from the Titanic.
Titanic - The
Musical - Here you'll find, songs, cast, synopsis and reviews of
the musical as well as scads of facts and data about the Titanic
Klaus Egvang's
Titanic News in English or Danish, has an excellent history of the Engelhardt
Collapsible lifeboat here with photos and a copy of
the patent application.
Encyclopedia
Titanica - Philip Hind's site with crew lists, passenger lists,
lifeboat passenger and crew lists and photos of the individual
passengers and crew where possible. If you really want more
links, check here.
TALL SHIPS AND
SAIL TRAINING ASSOCIATION LINKS
FAMOUS SHIP LINKS
YACHTS,
YACHTING, SAIL
The Glamorous Six
Masters Stan Wallace's site devoted to the big Maine-built
six-masters (schooners). Some nice old photos here.
Internet
Sailing Pages - Mark Rosenstein's pages (and pages) of internet
sail links. An excellent source for sailing material on yachts and tall
ships. Great links, Mark.
Schoonerman - Tom
Van Oosterhout’s site devoted to tall ships
The Tall Ships
by Fredrik Sandström - a Finnish web site, in English, with
photos, histories, and terminology of the days of Tall Ships
Thames Sailing
Barge Home Page David Renouf's site on the Thames Sailing Barge.
Nice site David!
The Catboat Association
- Catboats and more catboats. Nice set of study plans from the
various manufacturers.
SHIPYARDS &
DESIGNERS
PHOTOGRAPHSSHIPS IN BOTTLESRUSSIA
Artim Popov's Ship in Bottle Pages
Some fine Russian examples in English or Russian
URUGUAY
Alvaro
de Vida Ships in bottle models from Uruguay
SPAIN
Juan
Rodriguez del Barrio A couple of extra-fine Spanish examples by
Juan Rodriguez del Barrio in Spanish or English
Los BeB
en la Web - the Spanish ship in a bottle (barcos en botellas) page
of model builder José Ant. Bañares Agustín
CANADA
NFB Video - And
while your at it, how about a video, "Steady as She Goes"
profiling the work of the late Canadian ship bottler George Fulfit ?
Combines In A Bottle - What else would you expect a retired farmer in land-locked Saskatchewan to put in a bottle? Some very fine examples by the late Don Paterson.
GERMANY
Jan Reschkowski
Homepage of German ship bottler Jan Reschkowski with some very nice
examples of the art - in German
Deutsche-Buddelschiffer-Gilde Homepage of the German Bhip in Bottle
Guild. Some nicely built ships here in the Gallery (see "Galerie") (in
German)
Bernd J. Braatz Homepage of German ship modeller Bernd Braatz -
in English or German
Jochen Binikowski a
German site offering a vast array of mass-produced, Philippine-built
ships (in German or English)
AUSTRIA
Peter Huber, while not
ships in a bottle, Peter Huber of Austria displays a couple of
intricate examples of what Peter calls "Geduldflaschen" ("Patience
Bottles")- complete multi-story tableaux depicting gold mining
operations - all inside a bottle. Dating from 1744.(in German)
ISRAEL
Ari Krupnik’s Aircraft in a
Bottle Site Rather than launching ships, Ari tries a different
approach: He flies airplanes through the necks of the bottles!
PORTUGAL
Associação
Nacional de Cruzeiros Homepage of the Portuguese Association of
Ships in Bottles (in Portuguese).
YUGOSLAVIA
Ships in Bottles from the
Adriatic - from the town of Novi Sad on the Danube come these
Yugoslav models by Dragomir Komarov
ARGENTINA
Eduardo Raffaelli
- a site from Buenos Aires, Argentina with some very fine small ships
in tiny flasks and light bulbs
Celina Ferreyra - Some nice work from another Argentine enthusiast of the art. Nice to see that Monika Winblad in Sweden has some company! In English or Spanish.
SWEDEN
Monika Hagström Winblad - Monika Hagström Winblad of
Pataholm, Sweden offers us aphoto of her lovely model of the Olivebank
Fine work Monika! In English or Swedish
FRANCE
Association
Française des bateaux en Bouteilles A newly launched site of
the French Association of Ships in Bottles with the beginings of a nice
"virtual gallery" (only a few thumbnails are up yet). en
Française
Michel Bardet
From France comes this site by Michel Bardet. Hey, nice multi-hulls,
Michel! en Française or English
Bateaux en
Bouteilles par Michel Cantin Ships in bottles by French bottler
Michel Catin - en Française
Bateaux en
bouteille par Stephane Garneret Ships in bottles by French
modelmaker Stephane Garneret - love that model of the supertanker Erika
, Stephane... en Française
Bateaux en
bouteille par Jean-Louis Harel Some nice examples here by
Jean-Louis Harel - including a fine steam tractor in a bottle. en
Française
Jean-Luc Arrignon Jean-Luc's new
ship in a bottle page - can't wait to see some photos, Jean-Luc!
AUSTRALIA
Model
Shipwrights of Adelaide from Australia come these examples of ships
in bottles by bottler Neil Waller
Arthur Sale
From Tasmania, Australia comes this site by computer scientist,
glassworker, model builder and ship bottler Arthur Sale.
ITALY
Associazione Italiana Navi in
Bottiglia The new (2008) site of the Italian Association of Ships
in Bottles. Who else would have a classical setting of a Roman Bireme
sailing before Roman colonnades? in Italiano
Fernando de Paoli Navi
in bottiglia di Fernando an Italian site with ships in bottles and
some nice step-by-step photos. in Italian.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Bohuslav
Karban an avid ship bottler and architectural modeller from Th
Czeck Republik with a fine set of ships in light bulbs. in your choice
of English or Czech.
DENMARK
Flaske-Peter The Bottle
Peter story. With over 1700 ships built over the years, Peter Jacobsen
(1873 - 195 ) must take the prize for the most ships ever built by one
man in a lifetime! In English or Danish
Antique Bottles.com And while we're on the subject of old bottled ships, Reggie Lynch has some tips on dating bottles here that will aid in dating your old ship.
AIRCRAFT ON THE WEBOTHER MODELING
SITES ON THE WEBNAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD
- links articles and more for researchers, collectors, and builders of
high quality ship models.
The Task Force 72 Scale Model
Ship Association , New South
Wales, Australia good links page and an excellent page of modeling
tips and Q & A
A FEW SITES FOR
COMMERCIAL PLANS AND MODELING SUPPLIES
Swappers &
Collectors Pages - Everything For Collectors!
Internet for Fine Arts
Marketplace Mall
Nihongo Yellow Pages, Inc, - Japanese
Yellow Pages
FOCUS Associates - Business and
Marketing Consulting
One World Plaza
Page Host A-Z - Page listing
service, list your URL for FREE!
Starting Point
World Wide Arts Resources -
The comprehensive arts registry on the WWW
Nerd Word Search Engine
BizWiz / Access Business on Line
USA Online
Web Scout
Buyers index