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# ShipIndex Blog

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- [Multiple maritime museum makeovers](https://blog.shipindex.org/2026/08/multiple-maritime-museum-makeovers/) - I’ve seen several mentions of maritime museums that have reopened recently, and I thought it was worth noting a few of these. My list of museums to visit or revisit continues to expand! Earlier this month, the SS Great Britain museum, along with Bristol Dockyards, reopened a completely new experience, after a full refit. I
- [Sharing Your Information About Ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2026/02/sharing-your-information-about-ships/) - We are pleased to announce a new project at ShipIndex.org, which allows members of the public to share information about the vessels that matter to them. Do you have images, or documents, or details, about specific vessels? You can add that to a space where anyone can see and learn more about that ship. Add
- [This Week in Maritime History: June 15-21](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/06/this-week-in-maritime-history-june-15-21/) - This week, we look at an incredible four-year-long circumnavigation of the world, and a several recent naval support ships. June 15: In 1744, Commander George Anson returned to England after an epic four-year circumnavigation of the globe. Anson sailed with six naval and two merchant ships, returning with just one ship and only 10% of
- [This Week in Maritime History: June 8-14](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/06/this-week-in-maritime-history-june-8-14/) - There's always something interesting in any week, when looking at maritime and naval history. Let's see what we find this week! June 8: USS Vincennes (Wikipedia, ShipIndex), a sloop of war built in 1825-26, returned from a circumnavigation of the world in 1830, the first US Naval vessel to do so. Several years later, Vincennes
- [This Week in Maritime History: June 1-7](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/06/this-week-in-maritime-history-june-1-7/) - We took a break from "This Week in Maritime History" posts for a bit, but we are back! Check out these events in this coming week in maritime history: June 1: In 1850, Captain John S. DeBlois set sail in the whaleship Ann Alexander (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) from New Bedford, Massachusetts. While many ships set sail
- [Ship Research at Seattle Public Library](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/05/ship-research-at-seattle-public-library/) - Last week, the ShipIndex senior management team organized a corporate retreat in Seattle. (Translation: I went back home to visit the parents.) While there, I went to the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library, and was reminded that they have their own Ship Index there. So, after collecting data for additions to the ShipIndex
- [This Week in Maritime History: April 27-May 3](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/04/this-week-in-maritime-history-april-27-may-3/) - Let's explore a few more important events in our maritime history for this week. April 27: Exercise Tiger, a preparation for D-Day, took place on the southern coast of England, in 1944. Exercise Tiger was a multi-day practice assault on a beach in England that had features similar to Normandy’s Utah Beach. Military leaders wanted
- [This Week in Maritime History: April 20-26](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/04/this-week-in-maritime-history-april-20-26/) - This week we explore a range of events in maritime history, from single-handed circumnavigations to several disastrous collisions at sea. April 21: The Indonesian diesel-electric sub Nanggala (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) sank in the Bali Sea, in 2021, most likely due to a power outage that the crew was unable to recover from. All 53 people on
- [This Week in Maritime History: April 13-20](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/04/this-week-in-maritime-history-april-13-20/) - Of course we are back this week with the loss of the Titanic, in 1912, but it was not, by any means, the largest loss of life in this particular week in maritime history. 14: The most famous shipwreck, that of RMS Titanic (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) on its maiden voyage, occurred on the night of April
- [This Week in Maritime History: April 6-12](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/04/this-week-in-maritime-history-april-6-12/) - We look at a number of ship losses this week, including the most famous one. April 7: Japanese battleship Yamato (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) was sunk in 1945, during Operation Ten-Go, in World War II. Yamato was launched in 1940, and at the time was the most powerfully built battleship ever, along with its sister-ship, Musashi (Wikipedia,
- [This Week in Maritime History: March 30-April 5](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/this-week-in-maritime-history-march-30-april-5/) - Storms play an important part this week, from the nearly-always-stormy Cape Horn, in 1840, to the sinking of a Newfoundlander sealing ship in 1915. March 30: In 1881, SS Aberdeen (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) sailed on her first voyage, from London to Melbourne, via Cape Town, then to Shanghai, and back to London via the Suez Canal.
- [Ship Models Available for Donation](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/ship-models-available-for-donation/) - A friend of ShipIndex.org contacted us to see if we know on anyone who might be interested in acquiring several excellent ship models, made by a professional modeler but for his own enjoyment. These models have been appraised and are in attractive display cases. They're also in Tennessee, and transporting a ship model is no
- [This Week in Maritime History: March 23-29](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/this-week-in-maritime-history-march-23-29/) - This week's list of maritime events covers 200 years of maritime and naval history, from wars to shipping, and one of the longest continuously-published resources. March 23: The US Navy has had eight different ships named “Hornet” in its history. In 1815, a brigantine named Hornet (DANFS history, ShipIndex) captured the British sloop Penguin (ShipIndex),
- [This Week in Maritime History: March 16-22](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/this-week-in-maritime-history-march-16-22/) - In this installment of maritime history events, we look at oil spills, new technology, and Pacific exploration. If you’ve got an event that you think should be included, let us know in a comment below, or in an email to comments@shipindex.org. March 16: In 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) ran aground off
- [This Week in Maritime History: March 9-15](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/this-week-in-maritime-history-march-9-15/) - In this installment of maritime history events, we travel all around the world. If you've got an event that you think should be included, let us know in a comment below, or in an email to comments@shipindex.org. March 9-10: The submarine USS Kete (Wikipedia, ShipIndex) engaged with three Japanese vessels while gathering weather data in
- [This Week in Maritime History: March 2-9](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/03/this-week-in-maritime-history-march-2-9/) - Today we are starting a new feature that we think will help highlight the importance of maritime history in World history: a list of several central and important events that happened this week, at some time in the past. Most posts will focus on an event or a ship or the ships involved in a
- [Most Popular Vessel Names in the US, 2025 edition](https://blog.shipindex.org/2025/02/most-popular-vessel-names-in-the-us-2025-edition/) - I updated the Merchant Vessels of the United States file again this week. This is a file provided by the US Coast Guard describing some 387,000 vessels registered in the United States which have a valid Certificate of Documentation, from the National Vessel Documentation Center, based in Falling Waters, WV. The file lists all boats
- [Upcoming Price Increase: June 30](https://blog.shipindex.org/2024/05/upcoming-price-increase-june-30/) - ShipIndex opened for business in early 2009. The database had existed since about 2000 in a different online location, and then moved to the ShipIndex.org URL in 2002. Originally, I had no plans for turning it into a business at the time, so I never bothered to get the ShipIndex.com domain name. Oops. But when
- [Using ShipIndex.org With Your Holiday Gifts](https://blog.shipindex.org/2024/01/using-shipindex-org-with-your-holiday-gifts/) - Did you, like me, receive a curious set of porcelain knick-knacks that your mom picked up at a charity shop because they had pictures of ships on them? No? OK, well, maybe your mom is different from mine. But I did get the following three items from my mom, and as you can see by
- [ShipIndex.org Webinar Presentation Notes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/10/shipindex-org-webinar-presentation-notes/) - This blog post offers links and notes related to my live webinar presentation for ShipIndex.org users on October 18, 2023. It will be updated slightly after the presentation, to reflect any changes or discussions during the presentation. It’s not intended to represent all of the comments shared during the presentation, but instead to be a place where
- [Ohio Genealogical Society Presentation Notes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/07/ohio-genealogical-society-presentation-notes/) - This blog post offers links and notes related to my live webinar presentation to the Ohio Genealogical Society on July 11, 2023. It will be updated slightly after the presentation, to reflect any changes or discussions during the presentation. It's not intended to represent all of the comments shared during the presentation, but instead to
- [A Visit to the "Journeys into Genealogy" Podcast](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/05/a-visit-to-the-journeys-into-genealogy-podcast/) - We are thrilled to announce that our founder, Peter McCracken, was recently a guest on the "Journeys into Genealogy" podcast, hosted by the engaging Emma Cox. Peter and Emma had a discussion on the invaluable role that maritime history plays in genealogical research. They took a deep dive into how ShipIndex.org assists historians and genealogists
- [Advanced Searching in ShipIndex.org](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/04/advanced-searching-in-shipindex-org/) - Our "Introduction to Searching ShipIndex.org" Research Help Guide provides an overview of the basic parts of searching ShipIndex.org. There are some advanced features, as well, and they're worth knowing about. It seems straightforward – type in a ship name, get results. Actually, there’s a whole lot more that you can do in the database, and
- [Introduction to Searching ShipIndex.org](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/04/introduction-to-searching-shipindex-org/) - The video below shows effective ways of using the ShipIndex.org database. It's good to know what the database can, and cannot, do. Here's an overview: ShipIndex.org tells you what books, journals, websites, databases, resources, and more, mention the ships you want to learn more about. There are, basically, two versions of the database: the free
- [WorldCat (April) Fools](https://blog.shipindex.org/2023/04/worldcat-april-fools/) - This is the first of a few new blog posts. It's April 1, April Fools Day, but there is, alas, no foolin' around here. It's just bad news, start to finish, with the WorldCat subject entity links that have been in the free ShipIndex database since 2009. Read on, to learn more. When ShipIndex switched This is the first of a few new blog posts. It's April 1, April Fools Day, but there is, alas, no foolin' around here. It's just bad news, start to finish, with the WorldCat subject entity links that have been in the free ShipIndex database since 2009. Read on, to learn more. When ShipIndex switched
- [ONE THOUSAND RESOURCES!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2022/08/one-thousand-resources/) - Wow - it's been quite a while since I last posted anything to the blog. One would be forgiven for thinking we'd disappeared. But we haven't. In fact, we've been working away, adding new content, adding new (mostly backend) functionality, trying new marketing work, and more. But first, we've hit a big milestone -- yesterday,
- [Specific resources that have been removed from the ShipIndex database](https://blog.shipindex.org/2022/01/specific-resources-that-have-been-removed-from-the-shipindex-database/) - In the past I haven't kept a running tally of content that has been removed from the database, but I have mentioned it. The database takes a huge hit when I have to remove 380,000 citations in one go! As mentioned in the prior post, we've looked over all online resources, just to make sure
- [More resource additions, and a few deletions, too](https://blog.shipindex.org/2022/01/more-resource-additions-and-a-few-deletions-too/) - I provided a list of new resources added to the ShipIndex.org database, back in November. We're always adding new content, so I'll include a list of the new stuff at the bottom of this post in an upcoming post. But I also need to address the fact that we have to remove some stuff, as
- [Last few months of new content!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2021/11/last-few-months-of-new-content/) - Goodness, it's been a while since I added a blog post. We do have a lot of new content that's been added, and some new great functionality, as well -- I need to write something about that, since it is its own big step forward. But for now, let's list the content that has been
- [Recently added content, May 2021](https://blog.shipindex.org/2021/05/recently-added-content-may-2021/) - OK, so "recently" isn't necessarily accurate here; I think that this list covers content added in the past year, actually. We are always adding content to ShipIndex.org, but sometimes it's slow going. So here's a list of the content that has been added since my last content post, New content: Bunting, William Henry. Sea Struck. Thomaston, Maine: Tilbury
- [Most Popular Vessel Names in the US](https://blog.shipindex.org/2020/07/most-popular-vessel-names-in-the-us/) - I updated the Merchant Vessels of the United States database today. That’s a big file (~375k entries) and it serves as an interesting collection of personal and merchant vessels. (There’s a minor error in the import, in that about 10% of the entries – in the Os through Rs – are duplicated. I’m working on
- [All the Gory Details about Adding Unique Vessel Identifiers to ShipIndex.org](https://blog.shipindex.org/2020/04/all-the-gory-details-about-adding-unique-vessel-identifiers-to-shipindex-org/) - TL;DR: The ShipIndex.org database can now differentiate between disparate ships of the same name, and combine citations using different names for the same ship. We use Wikidata Q-identifiers to do this, and hope that we can help apply Linked Data to maritime history. This is a very long post about some significant enhancements that we’ve
- [Unique Vessel Identifiers Added to ShipIndex.org – the short version](https://blog.shipindex.org/2020/04/unique-vessel-identifiers-added-to-shipindex-org-the-short-version/) - I wrote a very long blog post about our new use of Wikidata identifiers, and how it changes the ShipIndex database. It might be too long for some. Here, I hope to limit my overview of these changes to just four paragraphs (not including this one). The ShipIndex database has grown a lot over
- [Marine Art Paintings and Big Ships in Bottles](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/05/marine-art-paintings-and-big-ships-in-bottles/) - The Yale Center for British Art, in New Haven, CT, has two marine art-related exhibits coming up. From Sept 15 to Dec 4, 2016, they'll be hosting an exhibit titled "Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting", which they say "is the first major exhibition to survey the tradition of marine painting that was inextricably linked to
- [ShipIndex.org "Guides to Ships" Published! Introductory Sale, too!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/05/shipindex-org-guides-to-ships-published-introductory-sale-too/) - ShipIndex.org is excited to announce our first publication(s)! We have three “Guides to Ships”, and each one introduces a different type of important vessel, with historic and modern images, and brief descriptions. Each guide is a 12-panel, folded, laminated publication. They’ll hold up to rigorous use, and will be helpful in many different settings. They
- [Tracking Vessel Arrivals in New York City](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/09/tracking-vessel-arrivals-in-new-york-city/) - While poking around in the library today, which is always a fun thing to do, I went in search of Way’s Packet Directory, 1848-1994. It’s a great volume that has lots of information about many ships that sailed the inland American waterways. But the ships are listed alphabetically, so there’s no index to it that would
- [Updates to online resources, especially Mystic Seaport resources](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/10/updates-to-online-resources-especially-mystic-seaport-resources/) - A few weeks ago I went through all of the online resources in ShipIndex.org, to see if they all worked. It’s not uncommon for interfaces and search structures to change, and the result is that URLs slightly change. Any change to a URL, however slight, will likely cause the link to break, however, so I
- [Tons of new content; site upgrades](https://blog.shipindex.org/2018/07/tons-of-new-content-site-upgrades/) - It's been quite a while since I've posted anything to the blog here. It might seem like nothing has been happening, but that's actually not true. A quick look at the ShipIndex webpage will show that; we have a new, much-improved page that responds to the size of the screen, meaning it works as well
- [Still more new content!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2018/08/still-more-new-content-2/) - 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
- [Even more new content!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2018/10/even-more-new-content/) - 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:
- [Another round of new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2018/11/another-round-of-new-content/) - 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
- [Nearly New Year; Lots more Additional Content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2018/12/nearly-new-year-lots-more-additional-content/) - 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,
- [Another collection of new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/01/another-collection-of-new-content/) - 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
- [New online content added recently](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/02/new-online-content-added-recently/) - 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,
- [Can't keep up with the new content....](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/02/cant-keep-up-with-the-new-content/) - 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 new content just keeps rolling in](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/03/the-new-content-just-keeps-rolling-in/) - 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
- [More new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/04/more-new-content-2/) - 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
- [More new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/06/more-new-content-3/) - It's been over six weeks since I last posted a list of recently-added content, so of course there's tons more waiting to be listed here. In mid-May, the ShipIndex team met up in Washington, DC, and visited the Library of Congress. We collected indexes to a ton of titles that we hadn't found elsewhere, and
- [Yet another list of new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/07/yet-another-list-of-new-content/) - The ShipIndex data team has been hard at work over the past six to eight weeks, and we've added a lot more data. A full list of all content that's been added since the last update appears below. Some are short books, or brief websites, but they've got unique content you won't find elsewhere. Some,
- [Adding Roebuck Society volumes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/09/adding-roebuck-society-volumes/) - Over the past year, we have been adding a TON of new content to ShipIndex. This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s looked at the blog – pretty much every entry has been just a listing of all the new content we’ve added since the last blog post about new content! Most of
- [Now with 3.5 million citations! (Almost.) And more content.](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/09/now-with-3-5-million-citations/) - The ShipIndex database continues to grow: according to this screen grab from our home page, we're just 126 citations away from 3.5 million citations! This is certainly a new record for ShipIndex.org content, but it has taken a long time to get here. Several years ago, I had to remove some 380,000 citations from the
- [More new content; more new Roebuck volumes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2019/11/more-new-content-more-new-roebuck-volumes/) - The addition of new content to ShipIndex has slowed, but it hasn't stopped. Here's the list of resources added since my last posting: Broxam, Graeme, and Ian Hawkins Nicholson. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Sydney: Volume III, 1841-1844 and Gazetteer. Canberra: Roebuck Society, 1988. Broxam, Graeme. Shipping Arrivals and Departures: Tasmania 1843-1850, Volume III. Woden, ACT: Navarine Publishing, 1998. Broxam, Graeme. Those that Survive:
- [More new content, and other new stuff coming soon...](https://blog.shipindex.org/2020/01/more-new-content-and-other-new-stuff-coming-soon/) - It's time for yet another list of new content. It has been a while since I've added to the list here, and to be honest our speed of importing new data has slowed a bit. But we're still working at it, and we still welcome suggestions of content to be added. Content work continues day
- [Search successes from NY State Family History Conference](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/10/search-successes-from-ny-state-family-history-conference/) - I spent September 17 to 19 at the New York State Family History Conference in Syracuse, NY. It’s not too far from home, so I was glad to attend the first one, two years ago, and I certainly looked forward to attending future conferences, which are scheduled for every other year. Of course I talked with
- [Shakespeare and Ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/04/shakespeare-and-ships/) - It's a few days late for his birthday, but this interesting page highlights the role of ships in many of Shakespeare's plays. As the author writes, regarding the pirates who rescue Hamlet in his eponymous play, "Consider that without the intervention of the pirates, Hamlet would have ended up in England with his neck on a
- ["National Fisherman" photo database at Penobscot Marine Museum](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/04/national-fisherman-photo-database-at-penobscot-marine-museum/) - The Penobscot Marine Museum has announced the arrival of the first version of its database of images from the magazine National Fisherman. The collection, consisting of previously-undigitized images from the 1950s to 1990s, is being released in groups of 5000, as the museum is able to digitize and index them. (The work is being done by
- ["Chasing the Whale" at National Maritime Museum](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/03/chasing_the_whale/) - The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, continues to come up with new and different displays and shows. Last summer I managed to snag two kids (actually, my son and nephew) to get me in to see their fantastic interactive production, "Against Captain's Orders", produced with Punchdrunk Entertainment. I realize that this show is different
- [14 Odd RN Ship Names](https://blog.shipindex.org/2016/01/14-odd-rn-ship-names/) - The Portsmouth (UK) News has a brief article titled “14 odd names for Royal Navy ships” which discusses exactly that. The topic was raised on the Maritime History discussion list (MARHST-L), with a few others mentioned – most of which appeared in the comments on the article’s page. Check it out at http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/14-odd-names-for-royal-navy-ships-1-7168404 .
- [New content added in the past three weeks](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/12/new-content-added-in-the-past-three-weeks/) - The following resources have been added in the past few weeks. I have a lot more content still to add, but thought I'd get this list out there now, and will put out the next list after I add more. Allington, Peter, Basil Greenhill. The First Atlantic Liners: Seamanship in the Age of Paddle Wheel,
- [Deleting data dilemma](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/11/deleting-data-dilemma/) - Of course I hate to remove content from the ShipIndex.org database; I’m always working on trying to expand, not contract, the database. But bad data is worse than no data, and an online resource recently disappeared, so I had to delete its contents from the database. The truth is, I have waited too long to
- [New Report on Naming USN Ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/09/new-report-on-naming-usn-ships/) - A colleague on Twitter, @ICComLib, pointed me to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service about the naming of US Naval ships. This is actually a pretty interesting issue, and can get quite controversial quite quickly. Ever since the founding of the US Navy, there have been conflicts about how names are assigned. Aircraft
- ["Against Captain's Orders" at National Maritime Museum](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/07/against-captains-orders-at-national-maritime-museum/) - The ShipIndex team is traveling through Europe for a few weeks. I had initially planned to post one little maritime thing each day, but that has, alas fallen by the wayside. It’s certainly not for a lack of maritime-related items I’ve seen, but more a lack of time sitting at the computer, rather than exploring
- [Lots More Book Content Just Added](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/06/lots-more-book-content-just-added/) - Since my last update on new content, in mid-March, I've added indexes to over two dozen new monographs and one new online collection. I have a lot more content to process and add, and I'll just keep plugging away at it, as best I can. The exciting thing (for me) is that this gets the
- [USS <i>Constitution</i> -- Preservation 200 Years Ago, and Today](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/05/uss-constitution-preservation-200-years-ago-and-today/) - Two hundred years ago today, a note appeared in the National Intelligencer, a newspaper in Washington, DC, calling on the government to preserve USS Constitution, even then known as "Old Ironsides". A transcription of the piece appears below: Our National Ship, the Constitution, is once more arrived. Let us keep "Old Iron Sides" at home. She has,
- [20 Ways the Shipping Container has Changed the World](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/05/20-ways-the-shipping-container-has-changed-the-world/) - Shipping containers have fundamentally changed the way of the world since their conception in 1956. They perform the thankless task of transporting billions of tons of cargo each and every year. We know how important shipping containers are but not many of us know their origins. An infographic called "20 Ways The Shipping Container Took
- [New Content Added: 17 Books, One Web Source](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/03/new-content-added-17-books-one-web-source/) - I've added more new monographic (and one web: Blue World Web Museum) content, and I've still got tons more to work through and add soon. In any case, the following have all been added since the list that I posted on February 27. This upload includes two volumes from two major multi-volume sets of naval
- [New Content Added for Over a Dozen Titles](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/02/new-content-added-for-over-a-dozen-titles/) - Recently, I've been preparing a lot of new content to add to the database. The first evidence of that went into the database today. Ships mentioned in the indexes to the following resource were added to the subscription database today: Bennett, Jenny. Sailing Rigs: An Illustrated Guide. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Boyer, Carl, 3rd.
- [Applying Old Data to New Technologies - The Quasi-War](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/02/applying-old-data-to-new-technologies-the-quasi-war/) - Here is a very cool combination of early modern historical data and very modern technology. ShipIndex exhibited at the American Historical Association conference in New York City at the very start of 2015, and while there I met Abby Mullen, a graduate student at Northeastern University, studying with William Fowler. At the conference, I learned
- [How do you get a 458' long, by 50' wide, ship through a 270' long, by 45' wide, canal?](https://blog.shipindex.org/2015/01/how-do-you-get-a-458-long-by-50-wide-ship-through-a-270-long-by-45-wide-canal/) - So many ships have so many great stories. I'd like to start highlighting a few of them. Here's a start: Toward the end of World War I, the US government needed all the shipping tonnage it could obtain, to move resources to Europe. It looked to the Great Lakes for freighters available there, and among
- [Tracking Shipwreck Survivors](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/12/tracking-shipwreck-survivors/) - I got a note the other day from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, directing me to a resource about tracking shipwreck survivors. It's an online publication, titled The Shipwrecked Passenger Book: Sailing Westbound from Europe for the Americas, 1817-1875, by Frank A. Biebel. It's available for free here, hosted by FamilySearch. It will
- [Giving ShipIndex.org as a Gift](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/12/giving-shipindex-org-as-a-gift/) - Looking for a last-minute gift for a maritime historian or a genealogist? Consider access to the nearly 3.4 million citations in ShipIndex.org! You can give a genealogist three months of access to the premium database for just $22. Or give a historian access to the premium database for six months for $35. Or give a maritime
- [A New Space for ShipIndex.org](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/09/a-new-space-for-shipindex-org/) - As of today, ShipIndex.org has a new home. We are going to be working out of Rev Ithaca, a brand-new co-working/incubator startup supporter, funded by Ithaca’s three higher ed institutions: TC3, IC, and CU. Rev had a grand opening this morning at 8:30, and the presidents of the three institutions were all present, and each
- [New feature: Introducing stopwords ](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/09/new-feature-introducing-stopwords/) - One of the neat things about having an online database is that one can study data to figure out how to make the system work better. This wouldn’t be the case if this were, say, a CD-ROM product. I can look at all the searches that have been done on the site in the past
- [Most popular ships in libraries, from OCLC](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/07/most-popular-ships-in-libraries/) - Not long ago I analyzed information about vessels registered in the US and found a list of the 100 most common ship names in America. Folks at OCLC, the online library cooperative, did something somewhat similar lately – and found the 10 most common ships in library collections. Thom Hickey, Chief Scientist at OCLC, had
- [Maritime history is everywhere - Mark Twain as an example](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/07/maritime-history-is-everywhere-mark-twain-as-an-example/) - One of my biggest challenges comes in making clear the role of maritime history in American history and life, and in world history and life. In a way, I think vessels are so ubiquitous that they’re not even noticed. But for most of recorded history, news and information (and with it, human connections) used ships
- [New content, through early June 2014](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/new-content-through-early-june-2014/) - I've been writing a lot about the 38th Voyage, but in fact I've also been working on new content for the database. Here's a list of content added since the last time I posted such a list: New content: Motor Boating (1909-1930). New York: Hearst Corp., 1909-. Piet's Scheeps Index. Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society
- [Practical points about my 38th Voyage](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/practical-points-about-my-38th-voyage/) - I head to Connecticut this Friday, to start my brief experience on the 38th Voyage. It is true that it will start on Friday the 13th, but I'm not the least bit worried about that, since I was born on a Friday the 13th -- in fact, a Friday the 13th in June, too: this
- [38th Voyage Training: Climbing the Rigging](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/38th-voyage-training-climbing-the-rigging/) - Back in April, when I went to the Seaport for training for the 38th Voyage, one big part of the day was to try climbing the rigging, in preparation for doing so while underway. I have climbed the Morgan’s rigging many, many times, but most often it was 20 years ago, when I worked on
- [The 100 Most Popular Vessel Names in the US](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/the-100-most-popular-vessel-names-in-the-us/) - The US Coast Guard publishes something called “Merchant Vessels of the United States”, searchable through their Maritime Information Exchange. It’s a directory of merchant ships over about 5 tons in size. (Smaller vessels that aren’t included in MVUS may be registered by states, rather than by the federal government.) Originally, it was in print, and
- [38th Voyage training: Visiting the Library and Collections at Mystic Seaport](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/38th-voyage-training-visiting-the-library-and-collections-at-mystic-seaport/) - One of the great treasures of Mystic Seaport is its research collection. Like any museum, they are only able to display a very small portion of their collection at any given time. I’ve spent a fair bit of time in the library there, both in its old and its new locations, but it’s always great
- [Training for the 38th Voyage: Visiting the Charles W. Morgan](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/06/training-for-the-38th-voyage-visiting-the-charles-w-morgan/) - In late April, I went to Mystic Seaport Museum, as part of training and preparation for the 38th Voyage. As previously noted, I’ve been to the Seaport many, many times, and have lived in Mystic twice – once while studying at the Seaport, and once while working there. So it is not a new place
- [Updated OCLC WorldCat data - 20% more, and more accurate](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/05/updated-oclc-worldcat-data-20-more-and-more-accurate/) - I’ve updated an important resource, adding 20% to its contents, and improving the accuracy of all of the data in it. When we converted ShipIndex.org from a hobby to a business, we worked with OCLC to get a file of books by or about ships. For more about how these records are used, see the
- [38th Voyage: An Introduction](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/05/38th-voyage-an-introduction/) - I’ve had a long relationship with Mystic Seaport. When I was 16, my mom, brother, and I drove across the country and my mom included a visit to the Seaport on our itinerary, along with museums like Colonial Williamsburg, the Chicago Art Institute, the American Natural History Museum, Plimoth Plantation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
- [3 Million Citations! And a full run of Mariner's Mirror!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/04/3-million-citations-and-a-full-run-of-mariners-mirror/) - Today, I’ve uploaded a file that brings the total number of citations in ShipIndex.org to over 3 million! I’ve learned, as I’ve grown the size of the database, that it gets harder and hard to hit big milestones when you add another set of digits to the citation numbers. Nowadays, adding 100,000 citations is somewhat
- [Welcome Back](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/05/welcome-back/) - This is the first of what should be many posts on the ShipIndex.org blog. I have had some problems with the blog for a while, but thanks to a crack team of experts, I’m back on track. I plan to be adding to the site a lot over the next few weeks. Some will be
- [New Content in Database, Feb 2014](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/02/new-content-in-database-feb-2014/) - I realized recently that I hadn't been posting the addition of new content to the blog here. I should have been doing that. I'd been putting it in the newsletters, but not on the blog. So, anyway, here's a list of content that's been added over the past few months: Archibald, Edward H. H. The Metal
- [Using WorldCat Records in ShipIndex.org: Part 2, Finding Books By Ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/01/using-worldcat-records-in-shipindex-org-part-2-finding-books-by-ships/) - My previous post looked at how WorldCat records can be used to locate books mentioned in the database, and locate books that are about a specific ship. There's still a lot more that WorldCat can do, but there are some idiosyncratic methods of tracking down the actual resources, and I want to write about those
- [Using WorldCat Records in ShipIndex.org: Part 1, Finding Books Mentioned in the Database, and Finding Books About Ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2014/01/using-worldcat-records-in-shipindex-org-part-1-finding-books-mentioned-in-the-database-and-finding-books-about-ships/) - I've been meaning to write a blog post about using WorldCat through ShipIndex.org. I finally started, but as usual, my blog post has grown to be much too long for just a single post. So I'll split this into two posts: one on finding monographs (ie, books) through WorldCat, and one on finding manuscript works
- [ShipIndex as a Vessel Name Authority File](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/12/shipindex-as-a-vessel-name-authority-file/) - [This entry was written long ago, but not posted, because I was having problems with uploading images. As you'll see, images are a critical part of this post! Now that I've gotten that problem resolved, I will add a few more posts soon. PMc] Last May, I finally completed one very large file for import.
- [New Marketing Paths](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/09/new-marketing-paths/) - I'm putting together a new marketing push these days, which consists of a range of traditional to non-traditional approaches. The most traditional is a series of ads for ShipIndex.org in several maritime and naval magazines over the next few months: Military History, Power Ships, Sea History (I have been writing a column in Sea History
- [A New Book on the Maritime History of the World](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/09/a-new-book-on-the-maritime-history-of-the-world/) - I’ve long felt that all I need to do to make ShipIndex.org a smashing success is to change how the world views maritime history. Maritime history is a mostly-neglected area of study, perhaps because it is, in many senses, the history of the space between places. While parts of maritime history are focused on an
- [Upcoming Genealogy Conferences in NY State](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/09/upcoming-genealogy-conferences-in-ny-state/) - ShipIndex.org will be at several conferences in the next few months. Come see us in upstate New York, at the first New York State Family History Conference, in Syracuse, September 20-21. It's co-sponsored by the Central New York Genealogical Society and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. The sessions look like they'll be pretty
- [Guest Post, from Cathryn Prince, Author of "Death in the Baltic"](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/08/guest-post-from-cathryn-prince-author-of-death-in-the-baltic/) - I'm pleased to offer the following guest blog post, by Cathryn J. Prince, author of Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The story of this ship is a remarkable one -- and one that, until now, was not well-known. I expect this book will change that, however. I'm enjoying reading
- [Our mission statement -- "Simplify maritime history research"](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/03/our-mission-statement-simplify-maritime-history-research/) - The other day I was working in my office at the local Tim Horton’s, and a friend walked in. We often see each other there and take a few minutes to chat. He told me that he's been working with colleagues on defining their company's mission statement. I’ve done that work in the past, and
- [Old Ship Picture Galleries temporarily down - what should ShipIndex do?](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/03/old-ship-picture-galleries-temporarily-down-what-should-shipindex-do/) - I discovered this afternoon that Old Ship Picture Galleries was recently taken down. A site on the home page says "If you want this site back, e mail darrenmbrown@optusnet.com.au and ask him to stop bombarding with e mails. He seems to take exception to me posting some copyright expired pictures that he has paid someone
- [ShipIndex content in library discovery layers](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/03/shipindex-content-in-library-discovery-layers/) - One of the biggest changes in academic libraries over the past few years has been the development of “discovery layers”: collections of paid, unique data that are pre-indexed and then easily searched by specialized search engines. For those readers not in the library industry, keep in mind that Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and other search engines
- [Deleting data - sometimes it must be done](https://blog.shipindex.org/2013/02/deleting-data-sometimes-it-must-be-done/) - I had to delete content from the database this morning. I've delayed doing it for a long time, but it had to be done. The "Property Management & Archive Record System" database, created by the US Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration, was actually a very useful database, but was removed temporarily - and then permanently
- ["The Genealogy Event" in NYC, and Glazier 'Immigrants to America' series](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/11/the-genealogy-event-in-nyc-and-glazier-immigrants-to-america-series/) - I went to a great genealogy conference in New York City a few weeks ago. It was just before Hurricane Sandy came through; we knew the storm was coming, but we didn’t know how bad it was going to be. The conference itself, though, was great. Called simply “The Genealogy Event”, it took place at
- ["Connecting Seas" 2013-14 Academic Year at Getty Research Institute](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/08/connecting-seas-2013-14-academic-year-at-getty-research-institute/) - The Getty Research Institute's 2013-14 academic year will be devoted to exploring the art historical impact of maritime traffic and trade. From an announcement on the H-Net network: The Getty Research Institute and the Getty Villa invite proposals for the 2013–2014 academic year, “Connecting Seas: Cultural and Artistic Exchange,” residential grants and fellowships. The theme
- [More on US Navy ship naming](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/04/more-on-us-navy-ship-naming/) - A member of the MARHST-L discussion list pointed out a fairly recent Congressional Research Service document about the naming of US Naval vessels, titled "Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress". It's an interesting read. As a CRS document, it just provides background, and doesn't discuss whether previous actions are right or wrong, but it sure
- [Holding on to the stuff that works](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/03/holding-on-to-the-stuff-that-works/) - I’ve been dealing with a lot of challenges lately – mostly technology-related (which, alas, is certainly the most important aspect of the business), but also sales, marketing, desktop support (that is, my desktop), time management, QuickBooks, kid’s health, and more – but I was reminded yesterday about one thing that does work. I sometimes feel
- [Report from Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/03/report-from-who-do-you-think-you-are-live/) - A week ago, I traveled to London to attend the Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE genealogy event, at Olympia National Hall, in London. It was a great event, and I hope to return in the future. I have managed exhibiting at conferences for a long time, both for ShipIndex.org and for my previous
- [Some more challenging website problems](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/03/some-more-challenging-website-problems/) - I discovered yesterday that some people are having problems creating accounts and then subscribing to the database. This appears to be a result of a restructuring of our backend, which was incredibly valuable, but had some unintended badness. Testing before release didn’t uncover these problems, and in fact they continue to be difficult to nail
- [Watch out for inaccurate citation numbers!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/02/watch-out-for-inaccurate-citation-numbers/) - The back-end enhancements mentioned in my last post now allow us to do some significant data improvements. Over the next few days, I'm going to be doing some work to improve how we represent links into the impressive Ship Register Database provided by the library at Mystic Seaport. Initially, we described this resource as "Ship
- [New subscription options; new backend; new currencies](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/02/new-subscription-options-new-backend-new-currencies/) - Lots of big changes are now live at ShipIndex.org. The site has just been significantly upgraded, and has much more power than before. Most of this isn't visible; it's primarily back-end work, but it will make importing data much quicker, and will also allow for much more flexible access to the world. IfWhen we are
- [ShipIndex in London](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/02/shipindex-in-london/) - When I went to the ShipIndex mailroom today (OK, the Trumansburg, NY, post office), I found an envelope from England awaiting me. What was it? It's ten passes to this year's "Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE" exposition, in London, at the Olympia Exhibit Hall. I'm excited about going to London to exhibit at
- [Changing Conferences](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/01/changing-conferences/) - In a previous post, I mentioned that ShipIndex is trying a bunch of new paths. One of those is to change the conferences I attend. Back at the old company I went to library conferences, library conferences, and library conferences. (And there are a lot of those…) In fact, ALA Midwinter is starting off today,
- [2012: A New Year for ShipIndex](https://blog.shipindex.org/2012/01/2012-a-new-year-for-shipindex/) - 2012 will be a new and different year for ShipIndex.org, on many levels. We (I; more on that in a bit) are/am changing the direction in a bunch of different ways. I intend to spend a number of blog posts spelling out what those changes look like, and how they’ll impact the site on its
- [ShipIndex as a gift](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/12/shipindex-as-a-gift-2/) - Looking for a last-minute gift for a maritime historian or a genealogist? Consider a limited-span subscription to ShipIndex.org! You can give a genealogist three months of access to the premium database for just $25. Or give a historian access to the premium database for six months for $45. Or give a maritime history fanatic access
- [On the naming of naval vessels](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/12/on-the-naming-of-naval-vessels/) - The US Navy has not been very good about how or why it names certain naval vessels. Given today's political environment, it's no surprise that even the naming of ships has taken on controversial tones with politicians of all stripes looking for reasons to get up in arms. A story from San Diego describes Congressional
- [New and updated content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/11/new-and-updated-content/) - Lots more new content in the past few weeks. The following resources are new, and include three more Navy Records Society volumes: Allin, Thomas, Sir, and R. C. Anderson. The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660-1678, Vol. 2 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 80). London: Navy Records Society, 1940. Brian-Davis, Edward. Ship Photos. [U.K.]: , 2006-.
- [More new NRS volumes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/11/more-new-nrs-volumes/) - I'm plugging away at the Navy Records Society volumes; I've added the index to a collection of five volumes today. These are: Monson, William, Sir, and Michael Oppenheim. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, Vol. 1 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 22). London: Navy Records Society, 1902. Monson, William, Sir, and Michael Oppenheim. The Naval Tracts of Sir
- [New content added; mostly Navy Records Society volumes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/11/new-content-added-mostly-navy-records-society-volumes/) - Indexes for the following volumes have been added: Firth, C. H. Naval Songs and Ballads (Navy Records Society, Vol. 33). London: Navy Records Society, 1908. Rodger, N. A. M. The Naval Miscellany, Vol. 5 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 125). London: G. Allen & Unwin, for the Navy Records Society, 1984. Syrett, David. The Siege and Capture of Havana, 1762 (Navy
- [Great new review of ShipIndex from Charleston Advisor](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/11/great-new-review-of-shipindex-from-charleston-advisor/) - I got back from the Charleston Conference last night. I couldn’t stay for the conference, unfortunately, but I did get to attend, and present at, a pre-conference. I didn’t present on ShipIndex (though I did meander aimlessly about it while we were working through some technical difficulties and they needed me to say something –
- [Why indexing matters](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/10/why-indexing-matters/) - I’m a huge fan of indexes, especially to magazines (aka serials, or journals), and it frustrates me quite a bit when I find useful journals that don’t have indexes to them. Here's why. The most important reason, most definitely, is because an index makes old issues of a magazine useful and accessible. Generally, a person
- [The death of the semantic web](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/10/the-death-of-the-semantic-web/) - I came across some interesting notes while going through old emails the other day. A message from NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, reported that the semantic web is dead, citing a post on semantico. The semantic web is a concept of presenting data in a structured format, usually as ‘triples’ (I am, absolutely, not
- [“Trust” and identifiers: two great concepts that concept great together](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/09/trust-and-identifiers-two-great-concepts-that-concept-great-together/) - My two primary areas of interest – library science and maritime history – bumped into each other this week in an interesting way. On the MARHST-L discussion list, there’s been much talk about various vessel identifiers. They haven’t really been called that; participants have been discussing “Official Numbers,” the Mercantile Navy List, and Lloyd’s Numbers,
- [New Linking Relationships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/06/new-linking-relationships/) - Yes, I know it's been far too long since I posted something here. As ALA Annual rapidly approaches, however, lots of news is coming up. I added a big file a month or so ago, and I'll add a note about that soon. Right now, I want to mention a great linking arrangement that we
- [Upcoming Conferences - SCELC, ACRL, NGS, ALA](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/upcoming-conferences-scelc-acrl-ngs-ala/) - At the American Library Association Midwinter conference in San Diego last month (where it was wonderfully warm and sunny, compared to the 8-12” of snow dumping outside my window at the moment), we ran a promotion for librarians, which we called “We Sing Sea Shanties on the Show Floor”. When librarians signed up for a
- [More new content, question about shipwreck info](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/more-new-content-question-about-shipwreck-info/) - The following files have been added to the premium ShipIndex.org database in the past few days: Bonner-Smith, D., and E. W. R. Lumby. The Second China War, 1856-1860 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 95). London: Navy Records Society, 1954. Canney, Donald L. The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 (The Old Steam Navy, Vol.
- [New content added recently](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/new-content-added-recently/) - Content from the following resources has been added to the premium database in the past few weeks: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (1874-1977; Nos. 1-898). Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. Steamship Historical Society of America. Steamboat Bill (1940-2009; Vols. 1-66) and PowerShips (2010; Vol. 67). East Providence, R.I.: Steamship Historical Society of America. Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood,
- [On Naming Ships and Representing them in ShipIndex](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/on-naming-ships-and-representing-them-in-shipindex/) - At present, ShipIndex.org has one point of access: the vessel name. You’d think that would be fairly easy, at least in the case of extant vessels: just look at the stern or the bow, and see what’s written there. Alas, it’s not that simple. There are many reasons for this, and a lot of them
- [New Content: US Naval Institute Proceedings](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/new-content-us-naval-institute-proceedings/) - As my background with Serials Solutions might suggest, I'm a big fan of serials (journals, magazines, etc.) and their content. I'm an even bigger fan of indexes to those publications. If there's no index to a publication, then the past issues are nearly useless. Researchers don't have any easy way of finding what was mentioned
- [New searching just released](https://blog.shipindex.org/2011/02/new-searching-just-released/) - We’ve just implemented new, and vastly improved, searching functionality throughout the website. The previous version of searching worked, but not as well as we liked, and we saw some problems that we knew needed attention. Our crack technology team has stayed up late into the night, refining midnight oil to be burned later, and developing
- [We Sing Sea Shanties On The Show Floor](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/12/we-sing-sea-shanties-on-the-show-floor/) - In two weeks, the entire ShipIndex.org team will be in Sunny San Diego, at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference, to tell institutions (primarily libraries) about our product, and to see if they'd be interested in giving it a try. We'll be exhibiting on the convention show floor, at Table 722. The Tables are the
- [How variant editions can screw up Google Books links](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/12/how-variant-editions-can-screw-up-google-books-links/) - As we’ve mentioned in the blog before, you can link to the full text of many, many resources cited in ShipIndex.org. In fact, with a recent addition of a file containing tens of thousands of online ship images, nearly 90% of the citations provide full-text linking. Much of the linking comes through links to online
- [ShipIndex as a gift!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/12/shipindex-as-a-gift/) - Know someone who’d love to have access to ShipIndex.org but won’t get it for themselves? Now, you can do it for them. We now offer fixed-time access to ShipIndex.org, and you can give this access as a gift. For example, you can give a genealogist-friend access to the database for three months, for $25; give
- [How about 1.5 million citations?](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/11/how-about-1-5-million-citations/) - Oh, did I forget to mention that the premium ShipIndex database now has 1.5 MILLION citations in it? I loaded links to nearly 90,000 ship images into the database last week. And now we have over 1.5 million citations, which is a great milestone in my book. New content is from the following sources: Old
- [On the naming of ships](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/11/on-the-naming-of-ships/) - On the MARHST-L discussion list, Josh Smith pointed out an interesting piece from GlobalSecurity.org on the naming of US Naval ships. I agree with the author about the need to stop naming ships after living people, and about the value and importance of using specific terms for specific types of vessels. The author points out
- [ShipIndex resources regarding the US Civil War](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/11/shipindex-resources-regarding-the-us-civil-war/) - ShipIndex’s range of content is “any named vessel in a resource in English” – meaning that we list ships from the ancient Athenian navy, from the Middle Ages, from basically every European war and most Asian ones (except for the land wars, I suppose), to 19th century merchant vessels, modern-day freighters, and anything in between.
- [ShipIndex has grown!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/11/shipindex-has-grown/) - The worldwide ShipIndex crew is growing by leaps and bounds. About two weeks ago, we added a new member to our staff, and we’re very excited about this. Kerry O’Malley is our new Manager of Institutional Sales, and in this role he’s responsible for offering ShipIndex.org to institutions of all types: from public and academic
- [Still more new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/11/still-more-new-content/) - We've added content from the following sources in the past few weeks: Atlantic Canada Shipping Project. Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada (CD-ROM). St John's, Nfld.: Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. Hale, John R. Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York,
- [New content added in past few weeks](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/10/new-content-added-in-past-few-weeks/) - Here's an overview of the new content added in the past few weeks. Two collections are of particular note: the Lloyd's List for 1812, via 1812Privateers.org, and the Dyal Ship Collection. One man, Michael Dun, has digitized and indexed all of the issues of Lloyd's List for the entire year of 1812. It's quite a
- [Full text links from within ShipIndex](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/10/full-text-links-from-within-shipindex/) - ShipIndex.org links to the full-text for nearly 85% of its citations! Before Mike ran the numbers, I guessed that a conservative estimate on links to full text would be at about 70%, so the 85% number was quite a surprise, but it's true. How did we do this? First, we're linking to lots and lots
- [From the 9th Maritime Heritage Conference, Baltimore](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/09/from-the-9th-maritime-heritage-conference-baltimore/) - I’m writing from the 9th Maritime Heritage Conference, in Baltimore, right now. The Maritime Heritage Conference takes place every three years, and I’ve had the opportunity to attend a few conferences in the past. It’s neat to get reconnected with friends in the maritime history community, and find out what’s been happening in the maritime
- [New feature: tracking ship updates](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/08/new-feature-tracking-ship-updates/) - Here's the third blog post for the morning. It's definitely the most exciting. We’ve just released the mostest coolestest feature of ShipIndex since starting the site. (OK, so that’s admittedly my personal opinion, but I think it’s also a fact.) Effective immediately, anyone with an account (that is, anyone who has created a username –
- [Most commonly used US Navy vessel names](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/08/most-commonly-used-us-navy-vessel-names/) - I was doing a bit of data cleanup today, and found some moderately interesting items. I was looking at the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, and correcting the way we represented some ship names – specifically those that were used multiple times by the US Navy. In looking over the information we have about
- [Navy Records Society volumes and other new content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/08/navy-records-society-volumes-and-other-new-content/) - The following content was added in the last few days. We've added the content of indexes from nearly a dozen additional Navy Records Society volumes, as well as several other monographs covering a wide range of time periods and geographic regions. Bateson, Charles. Gold Fleet for California: Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand. East Lansing,
- [ShipIndex is taking on crew!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/08/shipindex-is-taking-on-crew/) - Hoo-boy. Big Day here at ShipIndex.org's Eastern US World Headquarters. We've decided that it's time to find the right person to help us with institutional sales. To that end, we are putting out this job announcement and are looking for someone to join our team. If you're that person, or know someone who might be,
- [ShipIndex as bag sponsor at 9th Maritime Heritage Conference](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/07/shipindex-as-bag-sponsor-at-9th-maritime-heritage-conference/) - I'm excited to report that ShipIndex is a Bronze level sponsor for the upcoming Maritime Heritage Conference in Baltimore, this coming September. We'll also be sponsoring the conference bags, which is particularly cool. This is the first sponsorship that we've undertaken so far, and we hope that it will go well. A lot of what
- [New functionality: Citation counts](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/07/new-functionality-citation-counts/) - Mike has built a nice new piece of the website that tells you how many citations you'll find for each entry, and what type of resource you'll find them in. If you're accessing the freely-accessible content, and don't have a subscription, you'll see how many citations are in the free database, and how many are
- [New clients!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/07/new-clients/) - We've added several new clients in the past few months, but I've forgotten to mention them. These include National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, England) UCLA US Merchant Marine Academy San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) Also, we have a number of institutions currently running trials, including: Family History Library (Salt Lake
- [More New Content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/07/more-new-content/) - Hi. Long time no blog. Sorry about that. First off, here's new content added since the last time I posted such a list, about a month ago: Ballantyne, Iain. Strike From the Sea: The Royal Navy & US Navy at War in the Middle East. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Friedman, Norman, introduction by.
- [More new content, and a new relationship](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/06/more-new-content-and-a-new-relationship/) - I’ve added the following content since the last time I posted a list: Mariner's Mirror (1980-1984; Vols. 66-70) . London: Society for Nautical Research. Mariner's Mirror (1990-1994; Vols. 76-80). London: Society for Nautical Research. Mariner's Mirror (2000-2004; Vols. 86-90). London: Society for Nautical Research. Anuta, Michael J. Ships of Our Ancestors. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing
- [New feature: Passenger and Crew Lists icons](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/06/passenger-and-crew-lists-icons/) - When we exhibited at the National Genealogical Society conference recently, we quickly learned that lots of genealogists are looking for passenger and crew lists. We knew we had some of them in the ShipIndex.org database, but they weren't identified. I'm pleased to report that we now have an icon to indicate which citations describe passenger
- [Mariners Mirror content added](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/06/mariners-mirror-content-added/) - Yesterday, I added content from ten years of indexes to Mariners' Mirror, the core journal in maritime history. I've added the indexes to Volumes 76 to 80, and Volumes 86 to 90. The index to volumes 86 to 90 include photos, plates, and some illustrations, which I've noted here. I'll better clarify the years of
- [The oldest ships in ShipIndex](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/05/the-oldest-ships-in-shipindex/) - I’ve been to several conferences in the past few weeks. One question that I’m often asked, and one that I imagine people looking at the site are asking, is, “how far back do the ships in the collection go?” The short answer is that the range of vessels currently being added to the database is
- [Eight new resources added to premium database](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/05/eight_new_resources_added/) - There's lots of news to post here, and I'll get to it as quickly as I can. First things first, though: I added content from eight new resources yesterday. Indexes from the following resources are now in the premium database: Barrington, Samuel, D. Bonner-Smith. The Barrington Papers: Selected From the Letters and Papers of Admiral
- [Content, Conferences, and Enhancements](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/05/content_conferences_and_enhancements/) - Oh, man. I’m so far behind in updating the world on what ShipIndex.org is up to. A few important points: New content. I uploaded several files today. So far, they’ve included: Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, John Byng, Brian Tunstall. The Byng Papers: Selected from the Letters and Papers of Admiral Sir George Byng, First Viscount
- [New Content: Mariner's Mirror, and NRS volumes](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/05/new-content-mariners-mirror-and-nrs-volumes/) - Some really great content has been added recently. First is a pile of Navy Records Society volumes, specifically: Perrin, William G. The Naval Miscellany, Vol. 3 (Navy Records Society, Vol. 40). London: Navy Records Society, 1928. Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, John Byng, Brian Tunstall. The Byng Papers: Selected from the Letters and Papers of Admiral
- [Salt Lake City, here we come...](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/04/salt-lake-city/) - The ShipIndex.org team is headed to the National Genealogical Society conference, in Salt Lake City, tomorrow. We're very excited about this -- it'll be our first big place to advertise the service for individuals, and we're very much looking forward to getting as much feedback as we can. We'll have brochures, bottle openers, stickers, and
- ["Contact us" problem has been fixed](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/04/contact-us-problem-has-been-fixed/) - The problem with the "Contact Us" page has been fixed, I'm happy to report. Please do keep contacting us! Peter
- [Comments catastrophe!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/04/comments-catastrophe/) - OK, maybe not "catastrophe," but it looks like we haven't received any comments that folks submitted via our 'contact us' form, since the end of March. If you emailed us directly, which you can always do, at comments (at) shipindex (dot) org, then we did get it. But if you submitted it via the form,
- [Is there a better way to present this data?](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/04/is-there-a-better-way-to-present-this-data/) - I’ve been working on a big file that’s going to be very useful to ShipIndex.org subscribers, especially those interested in World War II vessels. H.T. Lenton’s tome, British and Imperial Warships of the Second World War, is an incredible resource. Its 750+ pages are absolutely jam-packed with useful content, but it has presented me with
- [Two new institutional subscribers](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/04/two-new-institutional-subscribers/) - I’m pleased to report that two institutions have signed up for institutional subscriptions in the past week. Everyone at the ShipIndex.org world headquarters is excited about this. The two institutions are pretty far away from each other: East Carolina University, which offers an excellent Masters program in Maritime Studies (admittedly, as a graduate of that
- [Index to Nautical Research Journal added](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/03/index-to-nautical-research-journal-added/) - This blog is slightly delayed, but it’s definitely better late than never. I added some particularly valuable content last week and haven’t yet mentioned it here on the blog. In addition to several books, I’ve added entries from the first 40 years of Nautical Research Journal, 1948 to 1995. This is particularly valuable to researchers
- [ShipIndex.org Trial at Coastal Carolina Univ](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/03/shipindex-org-trial-at-coastal-carolina-univ/) - Students, faculty, and staff at Coastal Carolina University can access a trial of the institutional version of ShipIndex.org for the next month or so. Please check it out. More information is posted at the News from Kimbel Library blog. If you use it in Kimbel Library and find it useful, please be sure to tell
- [New Content: Am Nep index, 1991-95](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/03/new-content-am-nep-index-1991-95/) - I just uploaded content from a five-year index to American Neptune, covering 1991 through 1995, to the premium database. Adding this sort of content is likely the most useful for the most users; it's great to have one place where you can locate content online from numerous sources, but locating print-only content is a lot
- [Lots of new content...](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/02/lots-of-new-content/) - I just finished uploading 5000+ additional citations today, which reminds me that it's about time for an update on what's been added in the past few weeks. With the most recent import, I've added content from three of the five books in Paul Silverstone's "U.S. Navy Warship Series". The series covers the history of the
- [Cool new enhancements!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/02/cool-new-enhancements/) - Well, we’ve done a ton of stuff since coming back from Boston. While in Boston at the ALA Midwinter conference, Mike and I met with about fifteen different people to get feedback on how to improve the site. Each meeting was about 45 minutes long, and the whole experience was really fantastic. We met with
- [Last night's dream](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/02/last-nights-dream/) - So, I don't usually remember my dreams. It's just the way I am. When I do, though, I try to pay attention. Last night, I dreamt that I was visiting a library, and meeting with librarians there. Not too unusual, except for a few things. First, there was a freeway running through the library. Well,
- [The messiest metadata yet...](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/01/the-messiest-metadata-yet/) - I'm used to messy metadata (that is, data about data - so in this case, data that describes the contents of the ship register), but today I've really hit a snag. I found a very nice resource online that has digitized many years of a useful ship register. But the data describing the data in
- [Update on New Content](https://blog.shipindex.org/2010/01/update-on-new-content/) - I've added lots of new content to the database in the past few weeks, but I haven't been good about making a note of that here. I've just finished adding a really significant resource: Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945, by Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, and Peter Mickel. This is a 1977 translation of
- [Data correction work at ShipIndex.org](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/12/data-correction-work-at-shipindex-org/) - We’ve completed our first initial load of a large pile of content into the premium ShipIndex.org database, and now have 1,231,909 references in the database. That’s a lot of content. We do have tons more to add, and it’ll keep coming in over time. Now, however, we’ll turn to the process of cleaning up some
- [A Page A Day - Moby-Dick](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/12/a-page-a-day-moby-dick/) - I somehow stumbled across an interesting site today, called "One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick", in which an amateur artist is creating a drawing based on the text of each page of Melville's Moby-Dick. The overview shows sets of each pages that have been done so far, and the blog provides info on the
- [Hot Snot! ShipIndex is back in business!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/12/hot-snot-shipindex-is-back-in-business/) - As Doc Hudson says when he takes over as Lighting McQueen’s crew chief in the Piston Cup tie-breaking race, “Hot Snot! We are back in business!” Over the past ten days or so, the crew at ShipIndex.org had some technical issues that we had to address, but we worked on ‘em, and we solved ‘em.
- [Reimporting data over the next few days](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/12/reimporting-data-over-the-next-few-days/) - We're doing some more tweaking to the content in ShipIndex.org, and will need to do some reimporting of some data -- OK, a lot of data. Initially, a pile of premium data will disappear, but worry not -- we'll add it all, and much, much more, in the next few days. It'll go in just
- [ShipIndex is going to Boston!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/12/shipindex-is-going-to-boston/) - The entire staff of ShipIndex.org, plus support staff (ie, a spouse), will be headed to Boston in mid-January, for the American Library Association Midwinter conference. We’re going to be meeting with librarians, site users, content providers, and others, to talk about what works and what doesn’t work on the current site, and how to improve
- [Talk tonight at MOHAI about USS Decatur in Seattle](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/11/talk-tonight-at-mohai-about-uss-decatur-in-seattle/) - Long time no post. Sorry about that. Will try to do a better job soon. I just saw mention of a talk tonight at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry about the USS Decatur in the Pacific Northwest by the author of a new book from University of Washington Press. I'd love to go, if
- [Big News! 40,000 new links from WorldCat added to ShipIndex.org!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/10/52new-links-added-from-worldcat/) - Well, this is exciting stuff. We’ve just added new content to ShipIndex.org, and this is big news for a variety of reasons. First, this is the first new content we’ve added in something like six years. Second, it’s interesting new content – it’s very different from what we’ve had before, but complementary to it. Third,
- [ShipIndex.org gets beautiful new OCLC record](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/shipindex-org-gets-beautiful-new-oclc-record/) - This blog posting is way overdue, as are several others, but this one’s first. I’m excited to report that ShipIndex.org has a beautiful new OCLC record! This is actually pretty neat, at least to a librarian. And, the truth is, the site has had an OCLC record for quite a while. But it was embarassingly
- [This Day in History, 1620 - Mayflower Set Sail](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/this-day-in-history-1620-mayflower-set-sail/) - On this day in 1620 (old style; September 16, in new style), Mayflower sailed from Southampton, England. She arrived in the hook of Cape Cod on November 11. The rest is, as they say, history. Nathaniel Philbrick published his book about the ship in 2006; it's titled Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War.
- [First press release goes out!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/first-press-release-goes-out/) - Our first press release hit the wire this morning. You can see it here, at PRWeb, and also on Library Technology Guides. I'm not sure if we'll be able to find all the places it appears, so if you see it somewhere, please do let us know.
- [This Day in History, 1939 - First British Ship Sunk by Germans](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/this-day-in-history-1939-first-british-ship-sunk-by-germans/) - On September 3, 1939, the British passenger liner SS Athenia was sunk by the German sub U-30. This was the first British ship sunk in World War II, and because it was a passenger vessel, rather than a cargo ship, it was a violation of existing treaties between Germany and England. In fact, the Germans
- [New Search Behavior - What do you think?](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/new-search-behavior-what-do-you-think/) - This Day in History - 2009, I deployed some new search behavior. The goal was to make the search behavior smoother when there's an exact match on the search term you've put in, or if there's only a single match. I'd like to know if this feature is helpful or confusing. Personally I think it's
- [New functionality added: "Find in a library" links](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/new-functionality-added-find-in-a-library-links/) - Yesterday and today, we've added "Find in a library" links to every single resource currently in the database. This is useful for tracking down the specific title that mentions your vessel. Say, for instance, you've done a search for the ship Smart. You find two mentions of the vessel, in two books about Maine ships.
- [This Day in History, 1925 - and ships that aren't in the water](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/09/this-day-in-history-1925-and-ships-that-arent-in-the-water/) - On September 2, 1925, the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), a rigid airship, was destroyed during a squall in Ohio. Fourteen of 53 people on board died in the crash. This was the 57th flight for the airship, so it certainly wasn't a problem with the newness of the ship. Instead, weather was the problem. It's worth
- [This Day in History, 1601 - Dutch complete circumnavigation of the world](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/this-day-in-history-1601-dutch-complete-circumnavigation-of-the-world/) - On this day in 1601, Olivier van Noort arrived back in Rotterdam, becoming the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the globe. He left in July 1598, with four ships, but arrived back home just over three years later with only one vessel - Mauritius. He also returned with just 45 of the 248 who left with
- [This Day in History, 1768 - Capt. Cook sets sail](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/this-day-in-history-1768-capt-cook-sets-sail/) - On this day in 1768, Capt James Cook set sail from England aboard Endeavor, bound for the Pacific Ocean, with plans to explore and map portions of the Pacific. Cook had been hired by the Royal Society in 1766 to map the Transit of Venus. On this voyage, his first of three, he became the
- [Another (nearly) LI maritime festival this weekend](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/another-nearly-li-maritime-festival-this-weekend/) - Wow. Just found another maritime festival near Long Island this weekend. It's on Staten Island, at the Noble Maritime Collection, and is called the Atlantic Salt Maritime Festival. I can't go to this festival, but I do want to go to the Noble Collection next time I'm near. I understand that the reconstruction of Henry
- [LIMM Seafood, Craft, and Music Festival this weekend](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/limm-seafood-craft-and-music-festival-this-weekend/) - The Long Island Maritime Museum's Seafood, Craft, and Music Festival (also some info here) takes place this coming weekend in West Sayville, NY. Check it out if you're in the neighborhood. My wife and I, and her family, went in 2003, and enjoyed it lots. There was good food and good music. I know it
- [Letters from Battle of Trafalgar, via Caird Library, National Maritime Museum](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/letters_from_trafalga/) - The Caird Library Blog, from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, has a nice entry from earlier this month about the letters of young George Perceval, whose first action as an 11-year-old sailor was in the Battle of Trafalgar, on board HMS Orion. Later, as the blog author writes, "The next letter in the
- [Pocketwatch from shipwreck found and returned, finally...](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/pocketwatch-from-shipwreck-found-and-returned-finally/) - This story from CNN Europe tells of a guy who found a pocketwatch on an old shipwreck, and spent several years trying to track down descendants of the proper owner. It turns out the watch was lost from the ship Barbara in 1881. Of course, with a very random name like "Barbara," the vessel that
- [Today in History: Constitution defeats Guerriere; 19 August 1812](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/today-in-history-constitution-defeats-guerriere-19-august-1812/) - Today, August 19, marks the 197th anniversary of the historic battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. This was a critical battle for the early republic; it showed that the startup US Navy could take on, and more importantly defeat, the British Navy - unquestionably the most powerful naval force
- [Welcome to the new ShipIndex.org!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/welcome-to-the-new-shipindex-org/) - Welcome to the brand new ShipIndex.org! We’re excited to have the new site up, and over time I’ll share some information about where we’ve been, and where we’re headed. For the time being, it’s enough to know that the new site has much better functionality, and will allow us to do all kinds of new
- [Spankin' new ShipIndex.org site launched!](https://blog.shipindex.org/2009/08/spankin-new-shipindex-org-site-launched/) - Yeah, I'm sure you loved our retro, 1993-core previous website, but we thought it was time to bling it up, so we did. Introducing our spanking new website with real live images and CSS and all that great modern 21st century web technology. We had a bit of dust to shake off ourselves but now

## Pages

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