Maritime History and Maritime
Research
Information sources and research applications
The future of this web
site Januay 2008
General and databases
Registers and other general sources
Computers and research resources for maritime history
Signal codes and their potential as database identifiers
Sailing ship rigs
European and other shipping
use
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General and
databases
G1 Ship identifiers in
databases and indexes
includes a lot about
national Official Numbers, Global Ship Numbers, and LR/IMO numbers
G2 Linking Official Numbers
across jurisdictions
G3 Confusable names of maritime locations
G4 The trans-Pacific trades in the days of sail (also listed elsewhere in menu)
G5 The Miramar
Index A comprehensive online
international index of powered vessels
Focusing on those with
particular relevance to searching using internationally recognised numerical
identifiers and with possible
potential for eventual cross-linking in some way.
G7 Issues
and options in database linking (draft)
Discusses possibilities for databases to be used in
conjunction and potentially linked in various ways for general collective
advantage.
Registers and
other general sources
R1 The Mercantile Navy List
(also
listed under
R2 Comparison of the numbers of ships recorded by Lloyd’s
Register and Bureau Veritas to WWI
R3 Measuring the transition from Sail to Steam with
Lloyd’s and Bureau Veritas statistics
R4 Australian and New
Zealand shipping registers (also listed under
R5 Log Chips
magazine: an underutilised research resource (also listed under
R6 Historical world
shipping trends and shipping registers
Computers and research resources for maritime history
CS 1, CS 2, CS 3 and CS 4 can
usefully be read in sequence but need not be
CS 1 Books, lists and computers
CS 2 Co-operative
development of research resources
including Collective
genie-us. What we can learn from the genealogists
CS 3 Developing the contact point and
overlap with genealogists
CS 4.1 Low-tech approaches to information
sharing – general
CS 4.2 Low-tech approaches to
information sharing – distribution on CD-ROM
CS 5 Spreadsheets for people who don’t already know
that they already know how to read them
CS 6 Relational
databases for what spreadsheets can’t do (forthcoming)
CS 7 Access basics
for combining and matching spreadsheets (forthcoming)
CS 8 Multi-field primary identifiers in Access (forthcoming)
(the way to add unique
primary identifiers to datasets that don’t have them)
CS 9 Simple
conventions and protocols for data sharing (forthcoming)
CS 10 One line per ship
indexes and multiple records per ship (forthcoming)
CS 11 Diacritical marks
and accentuated letters (planned)
CS 12 Possible collaborative resource development
sub-projects
CS 13 Compiling web
site pages in Word – rudimentary, affordable, effective (planned)
Signal codes
and their potential as database identifiers
C1 The allocation and use of ship identification
signal codes for merchant ships to WWII
C2 Signal codes as ship identifiers in
databases
C3 Marryat signal codes and their possible
application as ship identifiers in databases
C4 International signal code letters
allocated 1886-1947
C5 Rogers’ American Signal Codes 1846-54
C6 American Commercial Code of Signals codes 1859-1864
C7 American signal codes
1867-1932
Sailing ship
rigs
S1 The numbers of American square-rigged ships and the
rig-size relationship
(also listed under
S2 Schooners and
the rig-size relationship (forthcoming)
S3 The rig-size relationship and illustrating sailing ship
rigs
S4 The
schooner-barge, an important distinct species of rig (forthcoming)
S5 Finding
auxiliaries in the registers (forthcoming)
S6 Middendorf and
Underhill on sailing ship rigs (forthcoming)
A1 Sail and Steam in New Zealand: an outline
A2 The New Zealand sailing scow with international linkages; research; bibliography
A3 Australian and New
Zealand shipping registers (also listed under Registers)
A4 Watt’s Index of NZ-registered
ships
A4a Revised Index of
NZ-registered ships (incorporating revision and update of Watt’s Index)
– possibly the answer to one
of your puzzles or your chance to solve one
A6 New Zealand shipping statistics
A7 Australian shipping
statistics
A8 NZ heritage
ships preserved outside NZ (Sydney, Melbourne, San
Diego etc)
A9 Heritage ships
within New Zealand
A10 The sea career of
Percy Allen Eaddy (
A11 The Windsor Castle at Brisbane in 1877
The
A12 The trans-Pacific trades in the days of sail (also listed under General
and
A13 A NZ maritime and
genealogical information network
Calling NZers interested in the area of overlap
between genealogy and maritime history
N1 North American ships with
New Zealand connections List
N2 A substantial
listing of American ships prior to 1868
N3 American historical
shipping information sources
N4 Canadian
historical shipping information sources
N5 Log Chips
magazine: an underutilised research resource (also listed under
Registers)
N6 The trans-Pacific trades in the days of sail (also listed under General
and
N7 The numbers of
American square-rigged ships and the rig-size relationship
(also listed under Sailing ship rigs)
N8 United States
port registration transcriptions
the “Works Progress Administration”
projects 1936-1942
N9 Stock take of American research, May 2006
including the starting
point for an index of US official numbers, linkable to British counterparts
N 10 The parallel editions of the List of Merchant Vessels of the United
States
The
Congress (House) Documents edition of the LMVUS
may well be the more readily available
and includes additional information omitted from the
standard edition for many years
N 11 Statistical and
Archives Queries (US)
My
current “intractables” list.
Researchers with an academic
background may be particularly likely to be able to help
with
these as familiarity with historical governmental statistical publications and
administrative archives will help.
U1 General
U2 Comparison
of the coverage of UK ships by Lloyd’s
Register and the Mercantile Navy List
U3 The Mercantile Navy List
(also
listed under Registers)
U4 British crew
lists and ship movement records (forthcoming)
U5 British captains’
and mates’ certificates (forthcoming)
U6 Lloyd’s
captains’ registers (forthcoming)
European and
other shipping
E1 Combining
European shipping records with British and American (forthcoming)
E2 European shipping history references
E3 Kresse’s record of Hamburg ships to 1914
This resource contains information about many American
and British ships that came under
stage.
Jeremy Lowe,
Wellington, New Zealand j_lowe@ihug.co.nz jloweresearch@ihug.co.nz