I’m kind of astounded by the amount of new content we’re adding here, but here comes another list. There’s some new stuff in this list — through some work with the folks at Findmypast, the genealogy research company, we’re creating links to the passenger and crew lists that are available on that site. If you’re already a subscriber to Findmypast, you’ll be able to get it to the resource easily. If you’re not,  you might want to consider joining, to take a look at what you’ll find there. Of course, we can’t guarantee how much or what sort of information will be in the Findmypast databases, but it might be worth an investigation. You just never know what you’ll find, and that’s really the whole point of ShipIndex.org. More Findmypast content will be coming soon, as will many more monographs, and even some journal indexes that I found recently.

Without further ado, here’s what’s been added in the past few weeks:

• Biscoe, Mark Wyman. “No pluckier set of men anywhere”: The Story of Ships and Men in Damariscotta and Newcastle, Maine. Newcastle, ME: M. W. Biscoe, 1994.
• Bockstoce, John R., and American Philosophical Society. The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the Kanjghigmiut in Kotzebue Sound. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2005.
• Bockstoce, John R., William Barr, and Bill Nelson. White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
• Butler, Nathaniel, ed. by W. G. Perrin. Boteler’s Dialogues (Navy Records Society, Vol. 65). London: Navy Records Society, 1929.
• Byng, Pattee, and J.L. Cranmer-Byng. Pattee Byng’s Journal, 1718-1730 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 88). London: Navy Records Society, 1950.
• Callender, Geoffrey. The Naval Side of British History. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924.
• Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce, and Graham Easton Langmuir. West Coast Steamers.  Prescot Stephenson, 1966.
• Edwards, Bernard. The Twilight of the U-boats. Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper Ltd., 2004.
• Elphinstone, George Keith, and Christopher Lloyd. The Keith Papers, Volume 3 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 96). London: Navy Records Society, 1955.
• Faulkner, Marcus, Andrew D. Lambert, and Peter Wilkinson. War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
• Findmypast collections:
  • 1881 British Census, Crew and Passengers On Ships Arriving In New South Wales (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Australia Convict Ships 1786-1849 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Boston Passenger Lists 1846-1851 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • Queensland Customs House Shipping 1852-1885: Passengers and Crew (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
  • WWI Ships Lost at Sea, 1914-1919 (Findmypast). London: Findmypast, 2019.
• Grove, Eric J. The Defeat of the Enemy Attack Upon Shipping, 1939-1945 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 137). Aldershot, Hants., UK: Aldershot for the Navy Records Society,1998.
• Gwyn, Julian, and Sir Peter Warren. The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers, 1736-1752 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 118). London: Navy Records Society, 1973.
• Harbron, John D. Communist Ships and Shipping. New York: Praeger, 1963.
• Jordan, David. Wolfpack: The U-boat War and the Allied Counter-attack, 1939-1945. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2002.
• Lambert, Nicholas A. The Submarine Service, 1900-1918 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 142). Aldershot: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2001.
• MacAlpine, Richard S., Charles R. Mitchell. Steamboats on Keuka Lake: Penn Yan, Hammondsport and the Heart of the Finger Lakes. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
• Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth. Portsmouth, UK: Portsmouth City Council, 2002-2019.
• Miller, Nathan. Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
• National Small Boat Register. Falmouth, Cornwall: National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
• NOAA History: NOAA Coast and Geodetic Ships. Silver Spring, MD: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA Central Library, 2006.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series I). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series II). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series III). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1925.
• Putnam, George Granville. Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series IV). Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1930.
• Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: the Forging of an Air Navy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
• Rowbotham, Thomas Robert. The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 87). London: Navy Records Society, 1947.
• Seligmann, Matthew S. Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 152). Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate for Navy Records Society, 2007.
• Thursfield, H. G. Five Naval Journals: 1789-1817 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 91). London: Navy Records Society, 1951.

More files will be uploaded soon, and many more are being processed. I’m working on the Roebuck Society volumes, which will be incredibly valuable for researchers interested in early Australian and New Zealand history. We now have nearly all Navy Records Society volumes in the database. In early May, we venture to the Library of Congress, to collect still more content! Now’s the time to tell me about other titles you’d like to see added — send us a note at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

I cannot believe how much additional content we’ve gotten into the database in the last several weeks. Here’s a list of content added since my last post:

• Gordon, Malcolm R. From Chusan to Sea Princess: The Australian Services of the P & O and Orient Lines. North Sydney, NSW: George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty, 1985.
• Graves, Donald E. In Peril on the Sea: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic. Toronto: R. Brass Studios for the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 2003.
• Hepper, David J. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era, 1860-1919. London: Chatham Publishing, 2006.
• James, Alan, Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza, and Malcolm H. Murfett. European Navies and the Conduct of War. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• Johnson, Robert Erwin. Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• Jones, Colin. Australian Colonial Navies. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1986.
• Kerr, George Fleming. Business in Great Waters: The War History of the P. & O. (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company), 1939-1945. London:Faber and Faber Ltd., 1951.
• Knoblock, Glenn A. The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920: A Comprehensive History, with a List of Builders and Their Ships. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Inc., 2014.
• Lancour, Harold. A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825: Being a Guide to Published Lists of Early Immigrants to North America. New York:New York Public Library, 1978.
• Latham, Tim. Ashburner Schooners: The Story of the First Shipbuilders of Barrow-in-Furness. Manchester, UK: Ready Rhino, 1991.
• Laughton, L. G. Carr. Old Ship Figure-heads & Sterns: With what are Associated Galleries, Hanging-pieces, Catheads and Divers Other Matters that Concern the Grace and Countenance of Old Sailing-ships. Ottawa, Ontario: Algrove Publishing, 2006.
• Lawrence, Matthew S., Deborah Marx, John Galluzzo. Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank: Disaster in New England’s National Marine Sanctuary. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
• Lingwood, John. SD 14: The Great British Shipbuilding Success Story. Kendal: The World Ship Society, 1976.
• McLellan, Roderick Scott. Anchor Line, 1856-1956. Glasgow: Anchor Line Limited, 1956.
• Memorials & Monuments in Portsmouth. Portsmouth, UK: Portsmouth City Council, 2002-2019. 
• Miller, William H., Anthony Cooke, and Maruzio Eliseo. Liners of the Golden Age: A Pictorial History of Passenger Ships in the 1930s. London: Carmania Press, 2005.
• Mitchell, W. H. , L. A. Sawyer. Sailing Ship to Supertanker: the Hundred-Year Story of British Esso and its Ships. Lavenham, Suffolk: Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1987.
• Mollica, Anthony S., Jr. Boats of the Antique Boat Museum: Highlights of the Watercraft Collection. Clayton, NY: Antique Boat Museum, 2006.
• Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. War Service of the Merchant Navy: A Record of the Participation of the Men and Ships of Huddart Parker Ltd. Melbourne: Huddart Parker Ltd, 1951
• National Small Boat Register. Falmouth, Cornwall: National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
• Standard Oil Company. Ships of the Esso Fleet in World War II. New York: Standard Oil Company, 1946.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Stanton’s American Steam Vessels: The Classic Illustrations. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002.
• Symonds, Craig. World War II at Sea: A Global History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Volume I. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979.
• Tepper, Michael. New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature, Volume II. Baltimore, MD: Gealogical Publishing Co., 1979.
• Underhill, Harold A. Sail Training and Cadet Ships. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd, 1956.
• Waters, Sydney David. Ordeal by Sea: The New Zealand Shipping Company in the Second World War, 1939-1945. London: New Zealand Shipping Company, 1949.
• Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing, 2014.

As always, lots more will follow soon. And always feel free to let us know if you have titles  you think we should add. Send it to comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

It just keeps coming; I think we’ve added content from nearly 200 titles in the past six months or so. As of today, the full database contains “3,316,336 citations to ships in 729 resources”, and I know a lot more is waiting to be loaded. And, I’m planning trips to libraries this weekend, and to the Library of Congress in May, to collect still more.

Here’s what’s been added in the past two weeks:

• Appleyard, H.S. The Constantine Group. Kendal: World Ship Society, 1983.
• Bagnasco, Erminio, Augusto de Toro. The Littorio Class: Italy’s Last and Largest Battleships 1937-1948. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2011.
• Bender, James, J. D. Davies. Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail, 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2014.
• Bockstoce, John R. Furs and Frontiers in the Far North : the Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
• Busch, John Laurence. Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia, 2010.
• Bushell, T. A. Eight Bells: Royal Mail Lines War Story, 1939-1945. London: London Trade and Travel, 1950.
• Cassady, Michael, Sylvia Nimmo. New York Passenger Arrivals, 1849-1868: Passenger Lists. Papillion, Nebraska: Sylvia Nimmo, 1983.
• Davidson, A. S. . Marine Art and Liverpool: Painters, Places and Flag Codes, 1760-1960. Albrighton, Wolverhampton: Waine Research, 1986.
• Dow, George Francis. Whale Ships and Whaling: a Pictorial History with and Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial Times. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1925.
• Fildes, R. D. The Ships that Serve Australia and New Zealand, Volume One: Australian and New Zealand Flag Vessels. Sydney, NSW: Searail Productions, 1983.
• Gillett, Ross. Australian Ships: Over Two Centuries of Our Maritime Heritage. French’s Forest, NSW: Chils & Associates, 1989.
• National Historic Ships UK: National Register of Historic Vessels. London: National Historic Ships, 2018.
• Rogers, Henry J. Rogers’ Marine Telegraphic List of Merchant Vessels: Of 150 Tons and Upward, Employed in the Commerce of the United States. New York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855.

So, there are good chances to get to the rare and unusual books that haven’t yet been added to the database. Let us know if you know of a title that should be added — comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

In another data update, we’ve added full-text page links for all of the Navy Records Society volumes that are available through HathiTrust, meaning all pre-1924 volumes. Some links might not work if you’re accessing HathiTrust from a country that has different copyright laws, but hopefully most people will  now have more full-text access from home.

We’re now moving to adding a bunch of online content. Here’s a list of online (and some print) resources that have been added in the past three weeks:

• Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums. Census of Traditional and Historical Boats of the Mediterranean. Barcelona: Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums, 2014.
• Goossens, Reuben. ssMaritime.com. ssMaritime.com, 2019.
• Hadland, Harvey, and Bob Mackreth. Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake: Bayfield, Wisconsin. 2002 – 2016.
• Marsden, Reginald Godfrey. Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea, Vol. II: A.D. 1649-1767 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 50). London: Navy Records Society, 1916.
• Schultz, Charles R. Inventory of the Logbooks and Journals in the G.W. Blunt White Library (G.W. Blunt Library No. 4). Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association for the G.W. Blunt Library, 1965.
• Schultz, Charles R., Mystic Seaport Library. Inventory of the Mallory Family Papers 1808 – 1958. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Library, Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1964.
• UK Diving: Wreck List. Personal Print Ltd, 2006?.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers : Oil Bulk Ore Vessels. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Floating Platform and Storage Offshore Units. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Gas Carriers. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC) . Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Visser, Auke. Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers: Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC). Auke Visser’s International Super Tankers, 2017.
• Watson, Alan. The Medusa Trust: Preserving Medusa for Future Generations. Elstead, Surrey, UK: The Medusa Trust.

We also updated an online site that moved; unfortunately, this happens often. We don’t always hear about these URL changes, so if you see something that doesn’t work, please do let us know. And if you know of some other online resources that should be added to ShipIndex.org, so people know they mention specific ships, please let us know at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org.

It should be abundantly clear by now that we have a crack team working away on data; we’ve added indexes from hundreds of new titles to the database over the past year. It’s just not stopping, either. The indexes to the following books (and one online resource) have been added to ShipIndex.org since my last listing of content, on December 31:

• Corbett, Julian Stafford. Papers Relating to the Navy During the Spanish War 1585-1587 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 11). London: Navy Records Society, 1898.
• Gardner, James Anthony, R. Vesy Hamilton, John Knox Laughton. Recollections of James Anthony Gardner: Commander R.N. (1775-1814) (Navy Records Society, Vol. 31). London: Navy Records Society, 1906.
• Grant, James. The Old Scots Navy from 1689 to 1710 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 44). London: Navy Records Society, 1914.
• Gutteridge, H.C. Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins: Documents Relating to the Suppression of the Jacobin Revolution at Naples, June 1799 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 25). London: Navy Records Society, 1903. 
• Hadland, Harvey, Bob Mackreth. Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake: Bayfield, Wisconsin. (Our first web resource added in quite a while!)
• James, Bartholomew, John Knox Laughton, James Young F. Sullivan. The Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752-1828 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 6). London: Navy Records Society, 1896.
• Leyland, John. Dispatches and Letters Relating to the Blockade of Brest, 1803-1805, Volume 2 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 21). London: Navy Records Society, 1902.
• Marsden, Reginald Godfrey. Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea, Vol. II: A.D. 1649-1767 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 50). London: Navy Records Society, 1916.
• Mawdsley, Dean L. Cruise Books of the United States Navy in World War II : a Bibliography. Washington DC: Naval Historical Center, 1993.
• Mearns, David L. The Sinking of HMAS Sydney : How Australia’s Greatest Maritime Mystery was Solved. Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins Australia Pty Limited, 2018.
• Millar, John Fitzhugh. Early American Ships. Williamsburg, VA: Thirteen Colonies Press, 1986.
• Milner, Marc. Canada’s Navy: the First Century (Second Edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
• Mitchell, W. H. , L. A. Sawyer. Sailing Ship to Supertanker: the Hundred-Year Story of British Esso and its Ships. Lavenham, Suffolk: Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1987.
• Niven, John. The American President Lines and its Forebears, 1848-1984: From Paddlewheelers to Containerships. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. 
• Pellett, C. Roger . Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018.
• Pett, Phineas, William Gordon Perrin. The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (Navy Records Society, Vol. 51). London: Navy Records Society, 1918.
• Porter, David. The Kriegsmarine: Facts, Figures and Data for the German Navy, 1935-45. London: Amber Books, 2018.
• Rawlinson, John L. China’s Struggle for Naval Development 1839-1895. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
• Rimington, Critchell. Fighting Fleets. New York: Dood, Mead, & Company, 1943.
• Vale, Brian. The Naval Miscellany, Vol. 8 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 164). London: Routledge for the Navy Records Society, 2017.
• Wallin, Homer N. Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal. Washington DC: Naval History Division, 1968.
• Whitehouse, Arch. Fighting Ships. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. 
• Willis, Sam. The Struggle for Sea Power: a Naval History of the American Revolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

As always, we welcome suggestions for new content to add, and we’d love to work with publishers who want to ensure that their content is discoverable! Send a note to comments (at) shipindex (dot) org to see how we can work together on this.

With a new year comes lots more content. Indexes to the following resources have been added to ShipIndex.org in the past month.

• Bateson, Charles. The Convict Ships, 1787-1868 (2nd Edition). Sydney: Library of Australian History, 2004.
• Jellicoe, John Rushworth. The Grand Fleet, 1914-16: Its Creation, Development and Work. New York: G.H. Doran, 1919.
• Jones, Jerry W. U.S. Battleship Operations in World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
• Jordan, John . Warships after Washington: the Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015.
• Kemble, John Haskell. San Francisco Bay: a Pictorial Maritime History. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1957.
• Kert, Faye Margaret. Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
• Lardas, Mark, Paul Wright. USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit : The War of 1812 on the Great Lakes. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2017.
• Lavery, Brian. Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 (Publications of the Naval Records Society, Vol. 138). Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 1998.
• Love, Don. Shipwrecks on the South Gippsland Coast. Meerlieu, Victoria: Don Love, 2005.
• MacBride, Robert. Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of Naval Armor. Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books, 1962.
• Macpherson, Ken. Canada’s Fighting Ships. Toronto: S. Stevens, Hakkert, 1975.
• Malcomson, Robert. Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754-1834. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
• Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 1: The Defensive. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1954.
• Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 2: The Period of Balance. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1956.
• Roskill, Stephen Wentworth. The War at Sea, 1939-1945, Volume 3: The Offensive, Part 1 (1st June 1943-1st May 1944). London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1960.
• Saunders, Hilary Aidan St. George. Valiant Voyaging: A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War, 1939-1945. London:Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1948.
• Saunders, Malcolm George. The Soviet Navy. New York: F. A. Praeger, 1959.
• Schauffelen, Otmar. Great Sailing Ships: An Illustrated Catalogue and History of 150 Extant Barks, Barkentines, Frigates, Schooners and Other Large Sailing Vessels Built Since 1628. New York: Praeger, 1969.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Coastal Steam Vessels: Our Coastwise Fleets (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 9). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1974.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward, Ruth Diebold, & William Diebold. Flyers of the Hudson: Hudson River Steamboats (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 5). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1965.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Great Lakes Steam Vessels (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 1). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1962.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay Steam Vessels (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 2). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1968.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, Southern and Western Inland Steam Vessels (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 8). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1974.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. New York Bay Steam Vessels: New York River and Harbour Notes (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 7). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1968.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward, & Elizabeth Stanton Anderson. Nineteenth-century United States Naval Steam Vessels (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 4). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1964.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward, & Elizabeth Stanton Anderson. Ocean Steam Vessels (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 3). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1963.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Steam Vessels of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and Rivers (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 6). Meridian, Connecticut: Meridian Gravure Company, 1966.
• Stanton, Samuel Ward. Towboats and Tugs (American Steam Vessels Series, Volume 10). Meridien, Connecticut: Meridien Gravure Company, 1989.
• Stern, Robert Cecil. Battle Beneath the Waves: The U-boat War. London: Arms and Armour, 1999.
• Stevens, Edward Frank. One Hundred Years of Houlders (A Record of the History of Houlder Brothers and Co. Ltd from 1849-1950). London: Houlder Brothers and Co, Ltd., 1951.
• Still, William N. Confederate Shipbuilding. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1969.
• Stille, Mark, Paul Wright. US Navy Escort Carriers 1942-45. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2017.
• Stille, Mark. USN Battleship vs IJN Battleship: The Pacific 1942-44. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
• Tanner, J.R., John Hollond, & Robert Slyngesbie. Two Discourses of the Navy, 1638 and 1659, by John Hollond, also a Discourse of the Navy 1660 by Sir Robert Slyngesbie (Navy Records Society, Vol. 7). London: Navy Records Society, 1896.
• Tanner, J.R., Samuel Pepys.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalen College, Cambridge: Volume 4, Admiralty Journal (Navy Records Society, Vol. 57).London: Navy Records Society, 1923.
• Tzalel, Moshe. From Ice-breaker to Missile Boat: The Evolution of Israel’s Naval Strategy (Contributions in Military Studies, No. 52). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
• Underhill, Harold A. Deep-Water Sail. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., 1952.
• Villiers, Alan. Posted Missing: The Story of Ships Lost Without Trace in Recent Years. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956.

We continue to add primarily monographic content, and I think that each month I say we’ll be posting new online content soon. Well, don’t worry, we will. The great thing about printed content is that it’s not going anywhere. It might take some time to locate, but it’ll be there, which is more than can be said for online content. 

As always, if you have suggestions for content to add, please don’t hesitate to tell me! Leave a comment here, or send an email to comments (at) shipindex (dot) org. 

Wishing you the best for a great 2019!

I can’t emphasize how excited I am to have so much new monographic (ie, book) content getting added to the ShipIndex database. The proverbial “we” of ShipIndex, which has mostly been “me”, has been enhanced by the addition of several great people, including one who has been doing yeoman’s work in getting files ready to be added to the database. This has been a game-changer, and a reason why we’re adding so many new monographic titles.

An aside: adding book content is really great. When we can find the book in Google Books or Hathi Trust, we add links to it. But when we can’t, it can be frustrating to end users that the content isn’t immediately available online. However — it is available. Just follow the “find in a library” link as one easy way to find out if a library near you owns the book. If they don’t, see if your local library can obtain a copy for you from another library, through Interlibrary Loan. They *want* to get you the book, and most of the time, they don’t charge you at all! (So, be kind, and support your local library! In fact, I’m writing this on #GivingTuesday, so today’s as good a day as any to support your local library!)

Online resources are great; they’re immediately available! Until they’re not. And then they’re gone for good. Books are almost never “gone for good.” Even if you can’t get a copy now, maybe the next time you take a trip to a bigger city, or to a town with a research library, you can check before you go to see if the book you want is available there. (Just repeat the “Find in a library” link, but put in the ZIP code or postal code of the city you’re visiting.) Having a reason to visit a library in a different city is a great thing!

Last month, I went to New York City for a big maritime event. I went a few days early, so I could do a ton of research at the New York Public Library, and it was an absolute blast. It was so much fun to walk around all the tourists (while secretly being one, as well) and go in to the Rose Reading Room to collect books that had been pulled from storage for me. Wow wow wow.

Anyway, back to the content. Here’s a list of titles added since my last update, which was only a few weeks ago:

• D’Enno, Douglas. Fishermen Against the Kaiser, Volume I: Shockwaves of War, 1914-1915. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010.
• Delgado, James P., Hans Van Tilburg. The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor: The Rediscovery and Archaeology of Japan’s Top-secret Midget Submarines of World War II. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
• Dorling, H. Taprell. Blue Star Line at War, 1939-1945. London: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1973.
• Dulles, Foster Rhea. Lowered Boats: a Chronicle of American Whaling. Bombay: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1934.
• Flavin, Susan, Evan T. Jones.Bristolʼs Trade With Ireland and the Continent, 1503-1601: The Evidence of the Exchequer Customs Accounts. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press for the Bristol Record Society, 2009.
• Fleetwood, William C. Tidecraft : the Boats of South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida, 1550-1950. Tybee Island, Georgia: WBG Marine Press, 1995.
• Fontenoy, Paul E. Submarines : An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
• Frame, T. R. No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Australian Navy. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004.
• Gibbs, James A. Pacific Graveyard: A Narrative of Shipwrecks Where the Columbia River Meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1964.
• Goodwin, Peter. Nelson’s Ships: a History of the Vessels In Which he Served 1771-1805. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2002.
• Grace, James W. The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Night Action, 13 November 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
• Greenhill, Basil, Julian Mannering. The Chatham Directory of Inshore Craft : Traditional Working Vessels of the British Isles. London: Chatham Publishing, 2007.
• Gregory, Dickson. Australian Steamships, Past and Present. London: Richards Press, 1928. 
• Harland, John, and Mark Myers. Seamanship In the Age of Sail : An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-war, 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
• Havighurst, Walter Edwin. The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1943.
• Haws, Duncan, and Alexander Anthony Hurst.The Maritime History of the World: a Chronological Survey of Maritime Events, Supplemented by Commentaries. Sussex, England: Teredo Books Ltd., 1985.
• Hill, Alexander, and Felipe Rodriguez. Soviet Destroyers of World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2018.
• Hough, Richard. Fighting Ships. New York: Putnam, 1969.
• Hughes, Eleanor, et al. Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-century British Marine Painting. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
• Huycke, Harold D. To Santa Rosalia: Further and Back. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1970.
• Hyde, Francis E. , J.R. Harris and A.M. Bourn. Shipping Enterprise and Management, 1830-1939: Harrisons of Liverpool. Liverpool:Liverpool University Press, 1967. 
• Ingram, C.W.N. New Zealand Shipwrecks, 1795-1970. Wellington, NZ: A.H. & A. W. Reed, 1974.
• Jackson, John W. The Pennsylvania Navy, 1775-1781: The Defense of the Delaware. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974.
• Jackson, Robert. Kriegsmarine: The Illustrated History of the German Navy in World War II. London: Aurum, 2001.

As you can see, all of these are the start of the alphabet! (We organize them by author name, for the most part.) More to come, soon!

In August, I posted a bunch of new content added to the database. We’re really on a roll here, and are adding more and more all the time. Here’s a list of titles that have been added since my last posting of new content:

• Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: A Concise Compendium. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
• Baugh, Daniel. Naval Administration 1715-1750 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 120). London: Navy Records Society, 1977.
• Baugh, Daniel. The Global Seven Years War, 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2011.
• Baxter, James Phinney. Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
• Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War, Volume 1: The Hunters, 1939-1942. New York: Random House, 1996.
• Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War, Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1998.
• Blake, George. The Ben Line: The History of Wm. Thomson & Co. of Leith and Edinburgh , and of the Ships Owned and Managed by Them, 1825-1955. London:Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1956.
• Bond, Hallie E. Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
• Bowen, Frank C. A Century of Atlantic Travel: 1830-1930. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1930.
• Brinnin, John Malcolm. The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000.
• Brown, Giles T. Ships That Sail No More: Marine Transportation from San Diego to Puget Sound, 1910-1940. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
• Broxam, Graeme, Michael Nash. Tasmanian Shipwrecks: Volume One, 1797-1899. Canberra: Navarine Publishing, 1998.
• Broxam, Graeme, Michael Nash. Tasmanian Shipwrecks: Volume Two, 1900-1999. Canberra: Navarine Publishing, 2000.
• Clark, William Bell, ed. Naval Documents of the American Revolution (Vol.12). Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1964-2013.
• Cooley, Reg. The Unknown Fleet: The Army’s Civilian Seamen in War and Peace. Portsmouth, Engl.: Royal Naval Museum, 1993.
• Course, Alfred George. Painted Ports: The Story of the Ships of Devitt & Moore. Pangbourne, England: Hollis & Carter, 1961.
• Crothers, William L. The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, and Details. Camden, Maine: International Marine, 2000.
• Gill, G. Hermon. Royal Australian Navy, 1939-1942 (Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series Two, Vol. 1). Canberra: Sydney: Collins in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1985.
• Gill, G. Hermon. Royal Australian Navy, 1942-1945 (Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series Two, Vol. 2). Canberra: Sydney: Collins in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1985.
• Jose, Arthur W. The Royal Australian Navy, 1914-1918 (Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol. 9). Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943.
• Karig, Walter, Earl Burton, and Stephen L. Freeland. Battle Report: The Atlantic War (Battle Report Series Volume 2). New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, 1946. 
• Karig, Walter, Russell L. Harris, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: The End of An Empire (Battle Report Series Volume 4). New York: Rinehart and Company,1948.
• Karig, Walter, Malcolm W. Cagle, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: The War in Korea (Battle Report Series Volume 6). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1952.
• Karig, Walter, Russell L. Harris, and Frank A. Manson. Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific (Battle Report Series Volume 5). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1949.
• Karig, Walter, Welbourn Kelley. Battle Report: Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea (Battle Report Series Volume 1). New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944.
• Karig, Walter, Eric Purdon. Battle Report: Pacific War: Middle Phase (Battle Report Series Volume 3). New York: Rinehart and Company, 1947.
• Knox, Dudley W. Register of Officer Personnel: United States Navy and Marine Corps and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office,1945.
• Milne, Alexander, Beeler, John F. , Navy Records Society.The Milne Papers: The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806-1896): Volume 2. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
• Schultz, Charles R., and Mystic Seaport Library. Inventory of the T.A. Scott Company, Inc. Papers, 1889-1927. Mystic, Conn.: Marine Historical Association, 1964.

As you can see, this is vaguely focused on the early part of the alphabet (when looking at authors’ names). Lots, lots more is being processed as I type, and I’m headed to the New York Public Library this coming week to gather even more.

If you know of a title whose index you think should be added to ShipIndex.org, please do let me know!

This time last month I posted a list of several dozen new resources added to the database. I have a bunch more to list today.

The following have been added since I posted that list:

• Corbett, Julian S., Sir. Naval Operations Volume I: To the Battle of the Falklands. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920.
• Dudley, William S., Michael J. Crawford. Naval War of 1812, Volume 2: 1813. Washington: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1992.
• Dudley, William S., Michael J. Crawford. Naval War of 1812, Volume 3: 1814-1815. Washington: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 2002.
• Frothingham, Thomas Goddard. Naval History of the World War, Volume 1: Offensive Operations, 1914-1915. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.
• Frothingham, Thomas Goddard. Naval History of the World War, Volume 2: The Stress of Sea Power, 1915-1916. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.
• Frothingham, Thomas Goddard. The Naval History of the World War, Volume 3: The United States in the War, 1917-1918. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
• Gibson, R.H., Maurice Prendergast. German Submarine War 1914-1918. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
• Jackson, Melvin H. . The Historic American Merchant Marine Survey: Works Progress Administration, Federal Project No. 6. Salem, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1983.
• Heyl, Erik. Early American Steamers (Volumes 1-6). Buffalo, NY: Erik Heyl, 1953-1969.
• Knox, Dudley W., Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 1: Naval Operations from February 1797 to October 1798. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
• Knox, Dudley W., Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Naval Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 2: Naval Operations from November 1798 to March 1799. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
• Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 3: Naval Operations from April 1799 to July 1799. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1936.
• Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 4: Naval Operations from August 1799 to December 1799. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1935.
• Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 5: Naval Operations from January 1800 to May 1800. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1937.
• Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Navy Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 6: Naval Operations from June 1800 to November 1800. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1938.
• Knox, Dudley W. , Claude A. Swanson, Office of Naval Records and Library Naval Department.Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France, Vol. 7: Naval Operations from December 1800 to December 1801. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1938.
• Anderson, R.C., Pierre Le Conte, Society for Nautical Research. Lists of Men-of-War, 1650-1700. London: Cambridge University Press, 1935.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.
• Halpern, Paul G. The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1929 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 158). Burlington, VT: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2011.
• Winfield, Rif. First Rate: The Greatest Warships in the Age of Sail. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
• Woodman, Richard. Neptune’s Trident: Spices and Slaves, 1500-1807 (A History of the British Merchant Navy, Vol. 1). Gloucestershire: Stroud, 2008.

For the Naval Documents collection from the Quasi-War, we did some extra work on the files to ensure that the Captains names are findable in the index, and are connected with the appropriate entry. I’ll add a post soon with more information on how best to find those captains in the database.

We continue moving forward with more content; I plan to go collect more today, in fact. It’ll take some time to get it processed and added,  but it’s all moving along. All of the above, and what I collect today, will be from books, but we’ll also soon be turning to online resources, as well. As always, please let me know about any titles or resources that you think should be added.