GENERAL SHIPPING

Lloyds Maritime Directory, C. Emery, LLP, 1997. Lists details and ownership of over 45,000 vessels worldwide, plus contact addresses in the shipping industry.

Merchant Ships, E. C. Talbot-Booth, Sampson Low, published 1939 to 1963.

Talbot-Booth's Merchant Ships, E. C. Talbot-Booth, R. A. Streater & D. Greenman, Marinart, 1977-79 (3 volume set)

Jane's Merchant Ships, R. A. Streater & D. Greenman, Jane's, 1982.

Merchant Ships World Built, Adlard Coles, annual publication giving details of all vessels built over 1,000 tons.

The Ships Locator, R. M. Jackson, Higginson Book Co, Salem MA., 1998. lists vessels sailing fom US and Canada east coast ports from the 1820s to 1899 together with masters.

The World's Merchant Fleets 1939, Roger Jordan, Chatham, 1999. Details 6,000 merchant ships sailing in 1939 together with details of ships lost in WWII.

Register of Merchant Ships, T. Starke & W. Schell, WSS. Available for 1890-1894, 1900-1905, 1912-1922, 1949-1962, 1965, 1972, 1976-1979, 1982-1983. Each annual volume covers all powered ships over 300 gross tons to 1922 and over 1,000 tons thereafter, built in that year with full details and history of each ship.

REGIONS

Records of Bristol Ships 1800-38, G. Farr, Bristol Records Society, 1949. Lists ships registered at Bristol, owners and masters.

Steamers of the Thames & Medway, F. Burt, Roadmaster, 1997.

Ships and Shipbuilders of a West Country Seaport, C. H. Ward-Jackson,
Twelveheads Press, 1986. Fowey registered ships, builders, masters, etc, 1786-1939.

The Merchant Ships of Whitstable, W. Harvey, Emprint, 1994.

Clyde River Steamers 1872-1922, A. McQueen, Strong Oak Press, 1991.

Ships of North Cornwall, J. Bartlett, Tabb House, 1997.

COASTERS

The Steam Collier Fleets, J. A. MacRae & C. V. Waine, Waine, 1991.

Cambrian Coasters, R. Fenton, WSS, 1989.

Mersey Rovers: The Coastal Tramp Ship Owners of Liverpool and the Mersey, R. S. Fenton, WSS, 1997.

CARGO STEAMERS

British Tramps, I. G. Stewart, Ian Stewart Marine Publications, 1997.

British Ocean Tramps (2 volumes), P. N. Thomas, Waine Research, 1992.

The Deep Sea Tramp, Capt. A. G. Course, Hollis & Carter, 1960.

Sold East. Traders, Tramps & Tugs of Chinese Waters, H. W. Dick & S. A. Kentwell, Nautical Assoc. of Australia, 1992. Reference work covering Far East owners and fleets.

Beancaker to Boxboat, H. W. Dick & S. A. Kentwell, Nautical Assoc. of Australia, 1989. Reference work covering steamship companies in Chinese waters.

Travels of the Tramps, N. Middlemiss, Shield. Four volumes, each describing twenty British tramp companies and their fleets.

Welsh Shipping: Forgotten Fleets, P. M. Heaton, Heaton, 1989. Details five South Wales companies and their fleets.
 

WARTIME STANDARD BUILT SHIPS

British Standard Ships of WWI, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, Sea Breezes, 1968.

Empire Ships of WWII, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, Sea Breezes, 1965.

The Empire Ships, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, Revised edition, 1990. Far more comprehensive than the first edition.

The Liberty Ships, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, David & Charles, 1970.

Liberty Ships in Peacetime, I. G. Stewart, Stewart Marine, 1993. Details the career of each ship after the war.

The Oceans, the Forts and the Parks, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, Sea Breezes, 1966.

Victory Ships and Tankers, W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer, David & Charles, 1974

Empire Tugs, W. Harvey & K. Turrell, WSS, 1989.

The "Hog Islanders", Mark H. Goldberg, American Merchant Marine Museum, NY, 1991. Story of 122 US WWI merchant ships built at Philadelphia.

PASSENGER SHIPS

North Atlantic Seaway, N. R. P. Bonsor (5 volume set), Brookside Publications, 1980. Lists passenger steamers and lines sailing between Europe and the Eastern seaboard of America.

South Atlantic Seaway, N. R. P. Bonsor, Brookside Publications, 1983. Lists passenger steamers and lines sailing between Europe and Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

North Star to Southern Cross, J. M. Maber, Stephenson, 1967. Describes passenger steamers and lines sailing between Europe and Australasia.

British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans, C. R. Vernon-Gibbs RN, Putnam, 1963. Useful reference book.

Passenger Liners from Germany 1816-1990, C. L. Hansen, Schiffer (USA), 1991.

German Ocean Liners of the 20th Century, W. H. Miller, Stephens, 1989.

U.S. Passenger Liners since 1945, M. H. Watson, Stephens, 1988.

Great Passenger Ships of the World (6 volumes), A. Kludas, Stephens, 1986. Details and photographs of all passenger steamships over 10,000 tons.

A Century of North Sea Passenger Steamers, A. Greenway, Ian Allan, 1986.

Britain's Railway Steamers, Merchant Fleets vols 24-26, Duncan Haws, TCL, 1993-4.

Caviar & Cargo, Mark H. Goldberg, American Merchant Marine Museum, NY, 1992. The C3 Passenger Ships.
 

TROOPSHIPS

Troopships and their History, H. C. B. Rogers, Seeley, 1963.
 

SHIP LOSSES

Shipwreck Index of the British Isles, R & B. Larn, Lloyds, 1995.

British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-1918, Stephens, 1977.

British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-1945, Stephens, 1976.

British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-Boats in the 1914-1918 War, A. J. Tennent, Tennent, 1991. Details each loss.

British & Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-1945, A. J. Tennent, Sutton, 2001. Details each loss.

Wartime Disasters at Sea, D. Williams, Stephens, 1997.

Britain's Sea War: A Diary of Ship Losses 1939-1945, J. M. Young, Stephens, 1989. Details of each loss.

Dictionary of Disasters at Sea in the Age of Steam (2 volumes), C. Hocking, Lloyds, 1969. Standard Work.

Disasters at Sea, M. H. Watson, Stephens, 1995. Details all passenger ship disasters 1900-1994 excluding war losses.

Cornish Shipwrecks of the North Coast, C. Carter, David & Charles, 1970.

Cornish Shipwrecks of the South Coast, R. Larn & C. Carter, David & Charles, 1969.

Shipwrecks of the Isle of Wight, K. Phillips, David & Charles, 1988.

Shipwrecks of Orkney, Shetland and Pentland Firth, D. M. Ferguson, David & Charles, 1988.

The Real Price of Fish, Aberdeen Steam Trawler Losses 1887-1961, G. Ritchie, Hutton, 1991. Describes the loss of 300 trawlers.

Shipwrecks of North Wales, Ivor Wynne Jones, Landmark Publishing Ltd, 2001.

CONVICT SHIPS

The Convict Ships 1787-1868, C. Bateson, Browne, Son & Ferguson, 1959.

FLAGS AND FUNNELS

Browns Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, Browns, BSF, various years.

Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours 1959, C. Stewart, Adlard Coles, 1959.

A Survey of Mercantile Houseflags and Funnels, J. L. Loughran, Waine Research, 1979. Authorititive work.

House Flags and Funnels of British & Foreign Shipping Companies, E. C. Talbot-Booth, Sampson Low, 1938.

Browns Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies the World, J. Loughran, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1996.

Merchant Marine House Flags & Stack Insignia, U.S.Navy Hydrographic Office, 1961. All World Coverage.

TRAINING SHIPS

Vindicatrix, R. Derham, Quotes Ltd, 1993.

School for Seamen - the story of Gravesend Sea School, R. Derham, Baron Books, 2000.

LIFEBOATS

Heroes All! The Story of the RNLI, A. Beilby, Stephens, 1992.

CABLE SHIPS

Cableships & Submarine Cables, K. R. Haigh, Adlard Coles, 1968.

Girdle Round the Earth, The Story of Cable & Wireless, H. Barty-King, Heinemann, 1979.

The Telcon Story 1850-1950, Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co, 1950.

Cable Ships, N. Middlemiss, Shield Publications, 2000.

FISHING BOATS

England's Sea Fisheries, D. J. Starkey, 2000.
Fishing with Diversity, (Colne group, Lowestoft), M. R. White, 2001.
A Century of Fishing, (Gt.Yarmouth & Lowestoft), M. R. White, 2001.
Crownies of Lowestoft, (Consolidated Fisheries), M. R. White, 2001.

WHALING
Long Island Whalers by Paul Bailey, 1959, Amityville, N.Y. (A concise little
history)

Whaling Logbooks & Journals 1613-1927, An Inventory of Manuscripts in Public

Collections by Stuart C. Sherman, 1986, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.
(Extremely helpful indexes by ship, master, keeper, and whaling grounds)

A List of Logbooks of whaling voyages in the Collection of the Melville
Whaling Room in the Free Public Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Compiled
by Reginald B. Hegary. Reynolds-DeWalt, 1963. New Bedford, Mass.

Logbooks at the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum, New
Bedford, Mass. May 1959. By the Old Dartmouth Historial Society.

Where the Whalers Went: An Index to the Pacific Ports and Islands Visited by
American Whalers (and Some Other Ships) in the 19th Century, Edited by Robert
Langdon, Pacific Manucscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies, The
Australian National University, Canberra, 1984.

MARINE ENGINES
A History of Marine Engineering, John Guthrie, Hutchinson, London. Story of the development of the Marine Steam Engine from the earliest days.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Sailor's Word Book, Admiral W. H. Smyth, Conway, 1991.Dictionary of nautical expressions current in the 1860s and from earlier times.

Dictionary of Nautical Words & Terms, C. W. T. Layton, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1967.

Dictionary of Shipping Terms & Phrases, E. F. Stevens, Pitman, 1963.

Lloyds Maritime Atlas, Lloyds Shipping Publications, 1951-. Gives the locations of ports, rivers etc, many of which do not appear in general atlases.

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, P. Kemp, OUP, 1976.

Shipping Wonders of the World (2 volumes), C. Winchester, Fleetway, 193?.

Britain's Maritime Memorials & Mementoes, D. Saunders, Stephens, 199?

The Shipmasters, E. A. Johnstone, G. Mann Books, 2000. The story of a seafaring family from 18th century East coast colliers via Cape Horners to 1930s Blue Funnel Line.

Seeing the World thro' a Porthole, John Townsend, Xlibris, 2003. Memoirs from Bellboy in 1937 to Purser, prior to, during and after WWII, including Battle of the Atlantic and Russian convoys.

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