Interesting Sites

The following links to other interesting web sites from around the world have been appraised by members of the Shiplovers' Society and users of The Dog Watch homepage. We are keen to learn of any more that our users may have found, so please contact the editor with the address of the site(s) and include a 3 - 4 sentence appraisal. The editor will contact the relevant site so as to seek permission to publish the address on this page.  

1) The Shiplovers' Society of Victoria.

http://www.starnet.com.au/kndp/

This has been assembled by the Hon. Secretary of the Shiplovers' Society to promote the society and its publications.

2) Marine Society

http://www.marine-society.org.uk

The world's oldest not-for-profit organization providing education, libraries, practical sea training, and support for seafarers' professional development.

3) Maritime Matters

http://www.maritimematters.com/siteindex.html

Site includes news on current passenger shipping, steamship line history,

vintage ship roundup.

Interesting section is 'Ships o'the day', anniversaries in shipping history

Excellent links to maritime historical societies, web sites on specific

ships, ocean liner and maritime history web sites:

4) The Great Ocean Liners from Great Western 1838 to Queen Elizabeth 2 1969

http://user.tninet.se/~xqf528b/index2.html

The Great Ocean Liners from Great Western 1838 to Queen Elizabeth 2 1969

The story of each of the long list of ships. Excellent links on shipping

lines and specific interesting ships

5) Aust National Maritime Museum

http://www.anmm.gov.au/contents.htm

Informative website of ANMM includes details of the museum's vessels,

galleries and collections

6) Royal Australian Navy Official Internet Site

http://www.navy.gov.au/://w

Royal Australian Navy Official Internet Site

The RAN today, the fleet, histories of RAN ships and personalities, RAN at

war, WWII Korea Vietnam.

7) The Mother of all Maritime Links

http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~jkohnen/boatlink.html

Around 8,000 to 10,000 sites listed. Everything maritime: boatbuilding &

restoration projects, commercial shipping & shipbuilding, maritime

archaeology, pirates, rigging & sails warships and about 50 more.

8) Marine Log (magazine)

http://www.marinelog.com/index.html

Up to date maritime news plus a long list of news from past years

9) The Maritime History Virtual Archives

http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/www/Nautica/Nautica.html

A wealth of historical information on ships and navies in the past. Includes

lists of hundreds of sailing ships from the mid 19th century to the present

with details of each and references for further reading.