Libraries

Asia

Australia

National Maritime Museum

Darling Harbour,
PO Box 5131,
Sydney, NSW 2001.

Telephone: +61 (0)2 552 7777

Europe

Belgium

Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum

Steenplein 1,
B-2000 Antwerp.

Telephone: +32 (0)31 2320850.

Opening hours: Monday—Thursday, 08:30-12:00, 13:00-16:30; Friday, 08:30-12:00.

Collections (1983):

36.000 volumes of books.
485 periodical titles of which 59 were current.
manuscripts.

Denmark

Handels- og Søfartsmuseet på Kronborg

Kronborgs Slot,
DK-3000 Helsingør.

Telephone: +45 (0)2 210685.

Collections (1983):

21.500 volumes of books
manuscripts
ships' plans
photographs

Marinens Bibliotek

Vej 20, Bygning 37,
Holmen,
DK-1433 København K.

Telephone: +45 (0)31 543293 [?].

Established on the 3rd of January 1765.

Catalogue:

Bistrup, H.A.O. red.: Marinens bibliotek. Katalog over Marine - Nautisk - Teknisk Litteratur.
Marinens bibliotek, Khvn, 1936. 2 vols, 8vo, xxiv, 532 pp.
[Yearly Supplements have been published.]

France

Musée de la Marine

Palais de Chaillot,
Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre,
F-75116 Paris.

Telephone: +33 (0)1 5533170.

Collections (1983):

19.000 volumes of boos of which 1000 were printed before 1800.
40 periodicals
charts
ships's plans
photographs

Great Britain

National Maritime Museum

Park Row,
Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF.

Telephone: +44 (0)81 858 4422.

Can be reached by train from Charing Cross Station. The Library is open Monday-Friday 10.00-17.00 and on Saturdays by appointment only. There is no charge for visiting the Library but a reader's ticket is required to do research at the library.

The library is computerized.

100.000 books
5,5 km manuscripts
750.000 photographic prints and negatives
250.000 graphic prints and drawings
1 million ships plans

Catalogue:

Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume one. Voyages and Travel.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1968;-4to, xii, 404 pp, 10 pl;
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume two. Biography. Part one. National Maritime Museum, London, 1969;-4to, xiv, 502 pp, 8 pl;
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume two. Biography. Part two.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1969;-4to, viii, 503-977 pp.
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume three. Atlases & Cartography. Part one.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1971;-4to, xii, 654 pp, 8 pl;
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume three. Atlases & Cartography. Part two.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1971;-4to, x, 655-1166 pp, 4 pl;
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume four. Piracy & Privateering.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1972. 4to, x, 175 pp, 8 pl;
Sanderson, Michael red.: Catalogue of the Library. Volume five. Naval History. Part One: The Middle Ages to 1815.
National Maritime Museum, London, 1976;-4to, xii, 209 pp, 12 pl;

Southampton Reference Library

Catalogue:

Joye, Gill: Catalogue of the Maritime Collection.
Southampton Reference Library, Southampton, 1981. A4, (4), 239 pp.

The Netherlands

Koninlijk Instituut voor de Marine

Willemsoord

Catalogue:

Arendsen, J.: Catalogus van de historische collectie in de bibliotek van het Koninlijk Instituut voor de Marine.
Koninlijk Instituut voor de Marine, (Willemsoord), 1982. A4, (72) bl, ill.

Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepsvaartmuseum

Kattenburgerplein 1,
NL-1018 KK Amsterdam.

Telephone: +31 (0)20 523 2222
Telefax: +31 (0)20 523 2213

The museum is located about one kilometer east of central railway station. Take bus 22 or 28 from the Central Station or the Museum Boat or Artis Express.
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00-17:00; Sunday & Holidays 12:00-17:00; Modays Closed.
The library, which is open to the public, has more than 60.000 volumes.

A catalogue of the library was published in 1975 [?].

Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik'

Leuvehaven 1,
NL-3011 AE Rotterdam.

Telephone: +31 (0)10 4132680.
Telefax: +31 (0)10 4137342.
Internet: surf195@mmph.nl

Opening hours: Tuesday—Saturday, 10:00-17:00.

The library is computerized.

Collections (1992):

20000 volumes of books, c 800 printed before 1800.
300 atlases.
2000 maps and charts.
145.000 ships's plans.
300 paintings.
5000 prints & drawings.
80.000 photographs.
1400 shipmodels.

Sweden

Sjöfartsmuseet

Karl Johansgatan 1-3,
S-414 59 Göteborg.

Telephone: +46 (0)31 611000

The library holds more than 18,000 books.

Marinmuseum

Amiralitetsslätten 5,
S-371 30 Karlskrona.

Telephone: +46 (0)455 84003

There are more than 20,000 books in the library.

Statens Sjöhistoriska Museum

Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 24,
Box 27131,
S-102 52 Stockholm.

Telephone: +46 (0)8 6664900/70
Telefax: +46 (0)8 6664949

Take Bus 69 from the Central Station. Open daily: 10.00-17.00; 1994-10-04--12-06: Tues: also 18.00-20.30 [The plans archive only on appointment].

Library: The largest nautical library in the Nordic countries with c 60 000 volumes. A large collection of litterature on pleasure boating.
Photographic archive: Consists of more than 100 000 photographs of e.g. sailing, and steam ships, freight och naval ships as well as pleasure craft.
Archive: 250 shelf meters of documents and 50 000 plans are illustrating the development of the Swedish shipping, the Navy, shipbuilding and pleasure boating.
Svenskt Marinarkeologiskt register:: Consists of information on c 2000 wreck and of 10 000 reports of wreckings on the Swedish coast.

Grönquist, Helena: Svensk sjöhistorisk bibliografi 1976-1986.
Föreningen Sveriges Sjöfartsmuseum, Sthlm, 1988. 8vo, viii, 407 pp.
Sjöhistorisk årsbok 1987.

Kungliga Örlogsmanna Sällskapet

Amiralitetsslätten ?,
S-371 30 Karlskrona.

Telephone: +46 (0)455 84003

North America

USA

John Carter Brown Library

, Providence, RI

Telephone: +1

Catalogue:

(Elliot, Daniel): Maritime History. A Preliminary Hand-List of the Collection in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. With a Special Section on Sir Francis Drake.
John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979. 4to, x, 335 pp.
Supplement to Maritime History. Covering The Library's Accessions from 1979 to 1984.
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, RI, 1985. 4to, (4), 34 pp.

Essex Peabody Museum

East India Square,
Salem, MA 01970-3783.

Telephone: +1 508 745 9500.

+100.000 volumes of books

The Mariners' Museum

100 Museum Drive [Exit 62-A off I-64],
Newport News, VA 23606.

Telephone: +1 804 595 0368

Monday - Saturday 09.00-17.00

The Research Library and Archive, which is available free of charge, houses more than 70.000 volumes of books, 350.000 photographs and a million of archival items. The Chris-Craft archives are especially interesting to owners of these boats.

The card catalogue was published in 1975 [?].

Masssachusetts Institute of Technology

Hart Nautical Collections,
The MIT Museum,
265 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 021139.

Telephone: +1 617 253 5942

Independence Seaport Museum

Penn's Landing at
211 South Columbus Boulevard and Walnut Sreet,
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1415.

Telephone: +1 215 925 5439
telefax: +1 215 625 9635

The library is open by appointment: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00-16:00 and first Saturday of the month, 10:00-16:00. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.

The primary emphasis of the collection of the more than 12,000 volumes is on the regional maritime history. The Lenthall collection consists of 342 volumes of books on naval architecture and related subjects.

Catalogue:

Farr, Gail E. & Bostwick, Brett F.: John Lenthall, Naval Architecture. A Guide to Plans and Drawings of American Naval and Merchant Vessels 1790-1874 with A Bibliography of Works on Shipbuilding Printed in Great Britain, France and the United States 1707-1882.
Philadelphia Maritime Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1991. 4to, 52 pp, ill.
Collected by John Lenthall (1807-1882); Assistant Constructor, Philadelphia Navy Yard (c. 1827-38); Constructor, Philadelphia Navy Yard (1838-49); Chief Naval Constructor, United States Navy (1849-53); Chief, U.S. Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs (1853-63); and Its Successor, the U.S. Bureau of Construction and Repair (1863-71).

J. Porter Shaw Library

The National Maritime Museum,
Building E,
Fort Mason,
San Francisco, CA 94123.

Telephone: +1 415 556 9870.

142.000 volumes of books
5000 charts
3000 logbooks
120.000 sheets of plans
250.000 photographs

The Whaling Museum of New Bedford

18 Johnny Cake Hill,
New Bedford, MA 02740.

Telephone: +1 508 997 0046

The research library is open weekdays 9:00 -12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00.

There are more than 1100 whaling ship logbooks in the research library.

G.W. Blunt White Library

Mystic Seaport Museum,
50 Greenmanville Avenue,
Mystic, CT 06355-0990.

Telephone: +1 203 572 0711

Catalogue:

Annotated Bibliography of American and British Clipper Ships. Holdings in English in the G.W. Blunt White Library.
Information Bulletin 69-2, uo, (1969). A4, 16 pp.
[Card catalogue published?]

Ships history

Submarine Force Library and Museum
Box 16
Naval Submarine Base,
New London, CT 06349

Ships history and photo information

Naval Historical Center-LY
Washington Navy Yard
Washington, D.C. 20374-5060

Ships logs (including war patrol reports), muster rolls and maybe photo information

Archives II
Reference Branch
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001

E-mail: inquire@arch2.nara.gov

Updated 1996-02-23 by Lars Bruzelius

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