The Maritime History Virtual Archives

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Biblioteca Nautica, Bibliographies and Antiquarian Bookshops.
Etymology, including Dictionaries.
Biographies.
Societies.
Maritime and Naval Museums & Museum Ships.
Shipmodels.
Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture - Mainly wooden shipbuilding.
Tonnage measurement.
Masting and Rigging.
Seamanship, including Anchor Handling; Gunnery; Maintenance; Sailmaking; Sailhandling, Stowage and Substitute Rudder.
Ships - Mainly sailing ships from the second half of the 19th century. Lists of all four and five masted ships and barques; Five to seven masted schooners; Clipper ships.
The Duties of Officers and Men.
Maritime History, including Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea.
Harbours.
Canals.
Naval History.
Gunnery.
Images of ships and shipmodels.
Provisions.
Health of Seamen, A couple of quotations on scurvy.

Please note that these documents have been thoroughly indexed by e.g. the Alta Vista:

or Google catalogues as well as other catalogues. If you are trying to locate specific information, searching the indices might be the easiest way.

Please respect the copyright, I grant you the right to read what you find interesting, but please refrain from downloading entire folders of files. These documents have not been placed in the public domain. If I find that this service is being misused I will first bar the offender from my server, or ultimately reduce or close down this service entirely.

Thanks to all of you who have patience with empty hyper-text links and other errors. I do read the error log and try to correct the problems you run into. Please let me know if you have found something which I have not corrected within reasonable time.

Updated 2010-01-17 by Lars Bruzelius.