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can access it at www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
Rodger Haworth’s MIRAMAR Ship Index has gone online
with more than 330,000 names covering more than 207,000 powered ships of 100
tons or more, both merchant and naval, of all countries. Rodger Haworth is a
co-author of the Starke/Schell series of ship registers. Rodger’s involvement
in the researching and writing of ship’s histories dates back to 1957 as a
member of the World Ship Society.
You
can search on name, official number or the index’s ID number. Generally, ships
of 100 tons and above existing in 1969 and later will have an LR/IMO number and
if so this is almost invariably the
A search will give you a screen of names from the name
index showing numerical identifiers, Year (built), tonnage, Change (year of
name change), generally the original owner and, where applicable, the volume
and page reference to the Starke and Schell registers, to which the MIRAMAR
Index forms a master index. Selecting a record from the search results will
take you to fuller information including when and where built, builder, all
names, some physical information and fate. Scroll to the bottom of this page or
click again on Send to return to the search results.
Information is
included about the years covered by the Starke/Schell registers. For further
information and availability enter Starke and Schell as separate searches on
the World Ship Society publications search page at http://www.worldshipsociety.org/publications/bookquery.html
A
particularly helpful feature is that a search on a name gives you variations
it. To get an idea of how it works experiment on a common ship name like
You need to be careful when selecting a name later
than the ship’s first name from the search results. You should be able to tell
when this is the case because there will be a year in the Change column but not
against an original entry. To get the detailed record with all names, copy and
paste the ID number into the ID search box and delete the name from the name
search box and click Send again. This will give you a results screen with all
names of that particular ship. Select the one with no entry in the Change
column for a detailed screen with all names and the year of change. For
example, the “Amy Elizabeth” ID 7018434 will give you all seven names. Select
the one (Susann Von Bargen)
that does not have an entry in the Change column for a detailed screen
including all names starting with the first.
The official number column contains numbers of several
jurisdictions including port numbers. A low number could even be Italian or
Chilean, Swedish or Japanese as easily as it could be British or American.
Official numbers of 200,000 and above are nation-specific (200,000’s =
American, 300,000’s British). Official numbers in the range 162,000 to 199,999
are almost certainly British as the
The index is designed as a names’ index rather than an
official number index but within limits you can use
British official numbers are added to 1,000,000, American
to 2,000,000, Swedish to 3,000,000 and Japanese to 4,000,000 so you can tell
from ID’s in this form which nationality it relates to. The name of the
original owner may also provide a clue to nationality as may the builder though
not in all cases. If a record has an official number other than the first or
that upon which its ID number is based it must relate to a nationality other
than the first because in theory (though not invariably in practice) a ship
reverting to its original nationality would revert to its original official
number.
The Mariners’ List official number indexes at http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/ON1.htm
can be used to confirm British official numbers and the American official
numbers of powered vessels that both. Some ships may also appear in the below
100,000 index at http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/IBON-INDEX.html
Mariners’ List users may thus get the best of both worlds by using these
indexes together with
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