Pointers: Miscellaneous

• General [37]
• Archives & Libraries [35]
• Art [13]
• Canals and Inland Waterways [17]
• Knots and Knotting [8]
• Link Directories [14]
• Maritime Law [4]
• Navigation [5]
• Shanties [7]
• Weather, Tides and Waves [6]

• The American Sail Advancement Program (ASAP). Information on the new St. Petersburg Sail Expo trade show, November 2-5, 1995.
• The Antique and Classic Boat Society, North West Chapter (of USA).
• CyberCruising on San Francisco Bay
• The Eighth Sea features, among other things, reviews of new books on sailing.
• Epcom Communications, a maritime recording studio.
• Explorations: My Quest for Adventure and Discovery Under the Sea, Dr Robert Ballard in an Internet Society Roundtable Discussion, August 2, 1995.
• Sir Samuel Cunard biography from the Well Known Canadians Pages.
• "Fishmeal" hompage
• Great Lakes Shipwrecks.
• Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping.
  • Vessel passages from around the lakes.
  • Photo gallery of Great Lakes Vessels.
  • Great Lakes museums listing.
  • "Where to buy" section for items of interest to boaters.
  • Facts and figures section, including nautical charts.
• Heartland Boating. [Homeless (?) after Cybermall went bankrupt]
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
• International maritime signal flags and their meaning.
• The International Treasure Hunting Exchange.
• Mark Rosenstein's Sailing Page.
• The Mini-Tugboat Homepage for the mini-tug enthusiast.
• The Miramar, life on board the motor vessel Miramar sailing in the Pudget Sound.
• The NetSailor, a Virtual Boating Environment.
• The Microship project, Nomadic Research Labs.
• Nauticus, The National Maritime Center, Norfolk Waterfront Development, Norfolk, VA, USA.
• FTP-archive of ships' pictures in Poland [1996-03-15: Access denied].
• Penland Enterprises, Inc., Commercial and Private Worldwide Vessel Delivery.
• Pirates of the Caribbean.
• The Pirate Page, another one.
• The Polynesian Voyaging Society.
• Porta-Bote Genesis III series portable boat, a foldable boat from SteveLen Enterprises.
• The Poseidon Project.
• Maritime Images from Ivar Knutsen. Mostly modern naval ships.
• Maritime Salem, MA, USA.
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy
• The Semaphore Flag Signalling System.
• Haze Gray and Underway. An Online Source for Naval Information. Maintained by Andrew Toppan <elmer@wpi.edu>.
• The Ships of Huis ten Bosch, a collection of reconstructions of ships and boats at a theme park in Nagasaki. Many of the vessels are related to the Dutch-Japanese trading history.
• Ron Ginger's Home Page. A Model Boat builder. Also information on the "Traditional Small Craft Association", "TSCA of Peabody Museum" and "North America Model Engineer Show".
• San Diego Boat & Sportfishing Show, January 5-8, 1995, San Diego Convention Center & Mariott Marina.
• United Seamen's Service. Eleven USS centers in port locations throughout the world caters for the welfare of American seafarers and their dependents, as well as seafarers of all nations, and other persons engaged in the maritime industry.
• United States Coast Guard
• Viking Navy Home Port
• Waterfest'95 at the Old Harbour, Weymouth, England.

Archives

• The Business Records Centre at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The collections include the Anchor Line, John Brown & Co and Clyde Shipbuilders.
• The Cunard Archives at Liverpool University, Great Britain.
• Fartygshandlingar. Riksarkivet, Stockholm, Sweden. [In Swedish]
• Great Lakes Marine Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (HCGL) at the Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
• Catalogue of logbooks and journals, The Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA, USA.
• Independence Seaport Museum Library, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Lloyds' "Captains Registers", 1868-1947, at the Guildhall Library, London.
• The Maritime History Archive at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland.
• NARA
• The Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
• Major Accessions to Repositories since 1995 relating to Shipping and Seafaring in Great Britain.
• Archives of MarHst-L, the Maritime History Information Exchange Group:
  • 1994-1996
  • 1997-
• National Register of Archives, Great Britain:
  • Sources for Merchant Shipping and Seamen.
  • Major Accessions to Repositories in 1994 relating to Maritime History.
  • Major Accessions to Repositories in 1995 relating to Shipping and Seefaring.
  • Major Accessions to Repositories in 1996 relating to Maritime History.
• Sjömanshusarkiv av Kjell-Ove Larsson, Landsarkivet, Lund. [In Swedish]
• Tracing Ancestors in the Navy and the Merchant Marine at the Public Record Office, Great Britain.
• Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Archives.
• Norrlands Ångfartygs Assuransförening arkiv, Härnösands Landsarkiv. [In Swedish]
• Emigration Records, Publication record Office of Northern Ireland.
• Records of the Corporation of Trinity House at the Guildhall Library, London.
• MS 6388. Papers of Alan Villiers (1903-1982). The Manuscript Collection, National Library of Australia.
• Skibstegninger i Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen, Denmark. [In Danish]
• Obtaining US Navy photos from the period prior to 1982.

Online Maritime Libraries

• Bibliography relating to maritime archaeology, Department of Maritime Archaeology at the Western Australia Maritime Museum.
• Cushing Library Collection of Nautical Archaeology Literature, Texas & AM University, College Station, TX, USA.
• G.W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport. Mystic, CT, USA.
• The Hanson Collection of the Cruising Association and the University Library of Cambridge.
• Marine Museum of the Great Lakes - Library Catalogue.
• The Library of the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA, USA.
• Maritime Digitaal. The joint catalogue of the collections of the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, and Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik', Rotterdam.
• Library of the Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik', Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• The National Maritime Museum Library Catalogue, Greenwich, Great Britain.
• Navy Department Library, Washington, DC, USA.
• Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Library of the Vancouver Maritime W.B. and M.H. Chung Library.

• All At Sea. The UK Electric Art Gallery.
• Fine Art Emporium.
• Janus Lithographs, a publisher of marine art.
• The maritime photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz.
• The Pacific Marine Gallery, contemporary nautical art.
• The Marine Art Informtion Center.
• Maritime Poster Shop, from Blue Bowline and Marnet Services Ltd., featuring among other things Beken of Cowes posters.
• The Nautical Art Home Page. Empty so far [1995-08-08].
• Nautical Brass, a bimonthely illustrated magazine for the collector's of nautical antiques.
• Philip Plisson, "Image Fisherman" and Official Artist of the [French] Navy.
• Praise of Ships and the Sea - Dutch marine painting in the seventeenth century. An exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 21 December 1996 - 2 March 1997.
• Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) - Marine draughtsman and eye-witness. An exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 21 December 1996 - 23 February 1997.
• Willem van de Velde, the Younger.

• British Waterways. Information on the Canal System in Great Britain along with a listing of the canal boathire companies in Great Britain.
• Buckingham Canal Society, Great Britain.
• A Canal Chronology.
• Canals and Inland Waterways of the United States.
• The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Flood. Disaster and Restoration Information and Coordination.
• The Erie Canal, NY, USA.
• Emerald Star Line, offers cruises on Ireland inland waterways.
• George's: Canal Boating in the U.K. and Europe, incuding some North American information.
• The Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club, Great Britain.
• Illinois and Michigan Canal National Hertitage Corridor. This canal is connecting the Great Lakes with the Illinois River and thus with the Atlantic.
• The Inland Navigation Homepage, Great Britain.
• The Macclesfield Canal from Marple Junction, Cheshire, to Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England.
• Navvies Anonymous, a sub-section of the Waterways Recovery Group which is the restoration branch of the Inland Waterways Association.
• Ohio's Historic Canals, with information on the Canal Society of Ohio.
• The Panama Canal.
• The Panama Canal.
• The Panama Canal: A Brief History by Tyler Jones.
• The Sankey Canal Restoration Society, St Helens, Great Britain.
• Scotland's Lowland Canals. A History of The Union Canal and The Forth & Clyde Canal.
• The Trent-Severn Waterway links the Bay of Quinte with Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada.
• The Wey and Arun Canal Trust, Great Britain.

• Commonly Used Boats Knots from Suncoast Boating, Florida.
• The International Guild of Knot Tyers.
• Knots and Lines Illustrated by Paul Snyder. [1996-01-31: A one page ad for a new edition of the book]
• Knots on the Web. Basically an annotated link directory divided into three parts: Knot Tying; Knot Theory; and Knot Art.
• The Knotting Dictionary of Kännet.
• Markus Luzius - Knoten. [In German]
• Ropers Knots Page, by Ed Prins.
• Tie Basic Knots from Panmedia.

• John Kohnen's Link Page
• Age of Sail Page, a one page of links maintained by Sandra Loosemore.
• Cap'n Al's Pointers.
• Larry Barker's Boating Page, mostly pointers to other places. Also has information on Columbia River Sailing.
• International Sailing Page, mainly a jump-list to other well-known sites.
• Ken Olsen's Sea Lanes.
• Maritime geschiedenis en VOC [In Dutch]
• Maritime Links on the Net from D.R. Webb.
• Naval and Maritime, maintained by the United States Naval Academy Alumni. Although this page has the The World Wide Web Virtual Library designation it is heavily slanted towards to US Naval resources.
• 670 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
• Old Salt's Home Page. Yachting.
• SchoonerMan. Merchant sail.
• Stephen Jones' Sailing Index
• Liners & Transatlantics, despite the title only pointers to other places.
• UK Sailing Index, an index of sailing and sailing related websites based in Great Britain.

• Chris Giaschi's Maritime Law Page contains summaries of Canadian Judicial decisions on maritime law.
• Centre de droit maritime et oceanique, Maritime and Oceanic Law Center at the Universite de Nantes, France.
• The Marlyand Court of Vice Admiralty: A Transcription of "Admiralty Court--Minutes (1754-1775)"
• US Code of Federal regulations:
  • Title 14 Coast Guard.
  • Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters.
  • Title 46 Shipping.

• Great Circle Calculator
• Heavenly Bodies, finding the longitude at sea. A BBC program from 1995-02-26.
• Maritime, a software company specialised in navigations systems.
• Navigation software from Sea Information Systems and Thomas Gunn Navigation Services.
• The Royal Institute of Navigation, London, England.

• Directory of Shanty & Sea Song Recordings - UK, by Alan Hardy.
• Der Passat Chor, a chanty choir from Lübeck/Travemünde. [In German]
• Shanties and Sailor Songs / Shantys und Seemannslieder, by Richard Kopp.
• Sea shanties.
• Sea Shanties, not much here yet [1995-11-15].
• Shanties and Sea Songs compiled by Andrew Draskoy.
• Songs of the Sea by Erik Philippus.

• Ice Service Branch of Environment Canada
• Interactive Marine Observations. A visual interface to the lastest worldwide marine weather information being reported by automated weather stations.
• Sjöväder, from SVT Text-TV. [In Swedish]
• Wave height and tidal information for Florida/Georgia/Carolina waters.
• World Wave Height Map
• WWW Tide and Current Predictor. Interactive tidal height and current speed predictions are available for numerous sites both within the contiguous U.S.A. and elsewhere.

Copyright © 1996 Lars Bruzelius.