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• Research Guides from The National Maritime Museum

  United Kingdom. A listing of the National Maritime Museum's online research guides to their library and collections and to other related maritime sources.

  • Lloyd's

  • Research Guide No. A3 - Tracing Family History from Maritime Records

    A brief introduction to maritime records you can use to discover more about your ancestors, family history or famous people. It is intended to help you get started on your research, using the National Maritime Museum's library and archives and other resources outside the museum.

  • Research Guide No. F1 - Shipping Companies: Records held by the National Maritime Museum

    This guide lists the shipping companies whose records, or part-records, are held by the National Maritime Collection. These are mainly business records and do not cover operations, voyages or passenger lists.

  • Research Guides - The Merchant Navy

    Links to twelve of the National Maritime Museum's research guides regarding Britain's merchant shipping.

• RiverRats Mailing List

  For discussions of the Mississippi River people living on, working on, and involved in life on the river. Any family living in any county bordering the Mississippi River, or living on the river, is welcome.

• Scotland's East Coast Fisheries

• Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database

  The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871.

• The Divers Index

  An Index of Historical Divers and Their Work.

• The Historical Diving Society

  United Kingdom.

• Trueflare Limited

  Apprenticeship (Binding) Indexes for the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames 1692-1949; pdf format on CDs.

• Waterfront Workers History Project

  Explores this vital history, focusing first on the men and women who have worked in the ports, the inland waterways, the fisheries, canneries, and other waterfront industries of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. From the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.