Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters by M Warner lists the names of passengers and crew arriving in Sydney (1845-1922 with gaps). (See Online Indexes and Passenger Lists for details). Updated
Genseek's Mariner and Crew Records includes a captains index plus a wide variety of other indexes.
Mariners. This site is dedicated to research into the mariners and ships of the merchant marine and the world's navies. Information and links for Australia and New Zealand are available.Hall Genealogy Website - UK Mariners Page. This extensive gateway site offers links to a wide variety of resources for researching UK mariners. It is a must to visit.
Maritime History Archive, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada holds 70% of the records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen known as Agreements and Account of Crew of British Empire vessels. They hold 1863-1938 plus the majority of the records for 1951-1976.Register of Ships by G Provost and P Joicey has transcriptions from Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping (1764-2003). Ships are listed alphabetically with registration details such as rigging, tonnage, dimensions, propulsion, owners and master available.
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels Online by Michael Palmer contains extensive information and includes ships' pictures where available. The focus is on ships to the US but it includes ships that came to Australia.
The Maritime History Virtual Archives by Lars Brussels. This great site has information and links covering all aspects of maritime history and includes ships' pictures.
Ships' Movements ListsIndex to vessels arriving in Sydney 1837-1925 by Mary-Anne Warner. This index to 120,133 records lists the name and type of vessel plus date of arrival in Sydney. This index is useful for checking or confirming the date of arrival once you know the name of the ship.
South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Shipping Arrivals. This alphabetical list of ships arriving in South Australia (1836-1886) lists ships' name, arrival date and port plus departure port.
The Pioneers Association of South Australia. This site contains a List of Ships to South Australia 1836-1845. It lists name of the ship; departure port and date, arrival port and date, other information such as ship type and tonnage plus details of the number of passengers.
Ships' PicturesNational Maritime Museum (Greenwich UK). Research guide G3: Passengers: Ships sailing to Australia & New Zealand (images). This guide lists some of the National Maritime Museum's photographic material (original photos, or photographs of plans, pictures or models) showing ships that have sailed to Australia and New Zealand. New
Wikimedia
Commons is a media repository created and maintained by volunteers. It
provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams,
animations and other media. Currently there are seven million+ freely usable
media files available. Use the search box and enter Category:Ships.
There are 48 ship categories returned including ships by name (3,000+).
New
Australian War Memorial collection databases include photographs. The photograph collection contains almost one million images. Use this database to locate photographs of troopships, hospital ships or naval ships. Note that many of the hospital and troopships were immigrant ships before and after war service. New
Australian National Maritime Museum Go to the Quick Links at the bottom of the page and click on Research Guides. Click on the Pictures of ships in the Australian trade guide which details available indexes including the Vaughan Evans Maritime Illustration Indexes from the Illustrated Sydney News (1853-1889), the Illustrated London News (1842-1891) and the Australasian Sketcher (1873-1889). There is also access to the Index to Ship Pictures compiled from books in the Museum Library collection. It includes a wide range of titles covering the sailing ship era up to current day cruise ships, illustrated newspapers and maritime art books. Updated
Passenger and
Emigrant ships to Australia and New Zealand. A list of ships and where to find
pictures of them. It lists 700+ sailing ships for the period up to 1880 and
500 steamers for the period 1880-1914. New
Steam and motor
ships that carried passengers to Australia and New Zealand from 1918 to the
1970s. This site also lists the transports that carried troops to the Middle East,
Singapore and New Guinea in World War II. There is detailed information for each
ship plus a picture if available or information where a picture can be found.
New
Richard McKenna Memorial Pictorial Shipping Database. This Australian collection comprises library books, shipping registers, ship's photographs, maps and charts, shipping memorabilia, ship's plans and other maritime paraphernalia. The online database is currently being re-developed.
State Library of South Australia. H A Godson Collection of
River Murray Shipping contains
16,000+ photographs of paddle steamers and other vessels and river
ports, as well as historical River Murray scenes. For access use the South Australiana Database
and enter Godson
as a search term under the
Collection of Pictorial Material option or do a Keywords search by
ship's name.
State Library of South Australia. The A D Edwardes Collection
of 8,000+ Photographs of Sailing Ships from around
the world, taken between 1865-1920. For access to 2,280+ of these
images use the South
Australiana Database and enter A D Edwardes as a
search term under the Collection
of Pictorial Material option or do a Keywords search by
ship's name.
Art School Online by Roger Elliott. This interesting site has online lessons in drawing sailing ships. There is detailed explanations on the type of ships and rigs etc.
ShipwrecksEncyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks by Peter Stone. This site, based on material collected by Jack Loney, lists 8,000+ entries. There is an entry for each vessel shipwrecked with relevant physical details and details of her loss. This is followed by a code to a published reference work.
Ships' Graveyards of South Australia. This site provides comprehensive information about deliberately abandoned vessels in South Australian waters. It includes location map and descriptions of 19 identified sites; facts sheets, with histories and photographs, for all known graveyard vessels. It also provides access information if you wish to visit the sites.
Western Australian Maritime Museum Western Australian Shipwrecks Database.
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