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Maritime History
The history of maritime endeavor is contained primarily in museums, libraries and archives around the world, many searchable on-line. In addition, there are many Internet discussion groups and list-serves, bibliographies, magazines and journals, and other collections of material culture that evoke the wide spectrum of life by and on the sea.
Maritime Museums
A majority of the major maritime museums or institutions with maritime collections are members of the associations below. Additional organizations can be found in the World Ocean Directory.
Libraries, Archives and Specialty Collections
Libraries and archives frequently contain maritime-related collections of rare books and manuscripts, maps and charts, portraits, letters, photographs, objects and ephemera. Additional material can also be found in local historical and genealogical societies, natural history museums, folk arts and craft collections, and science and environmental centers in coastal settings.
(Note: Maritime History page is under construction June 2007)
An assortment of short videos on projects in Turkey, such as the Bronze Age shipwreck surveyed in 1983, sponge diving in the 1960s, and a tour of the Museum at Bodrum.
A comprehensive source for maritime history and current maritime affairs, events, exhibitions, and more.
Ships and Boats
Maritime history is well told through the voyages of innumerable ships plying the high seas, transporting goods, people and ideas worldwide in a complex weave of successful passages through time. These ships are evident throughout the history of civilization. They evoke the triumphs and tragedies of human endeavor, the myriad individual stories that collectively proclaim human achievement.
World Ship Trust
European Maritime Heritage
Traditional Small Craft Association
Museum Fleets:
Watercraft Collections, Registers and Inventories:
On-line Collections and Resources
Maritime patrimony is also interpreted through collections of artifacts, models, paintings, archival materials, and ephemera, much of which is found in institutional settings. Several museums and other organizations with large, encyclopedic collections have made these resources publicly accessible through on-line search facility and thematic bibliographies.
The overall mission of the Digital Library will be to collect, preserve and make accessible maritime resources from a variety of different institutions, in electronic format, thereby promoting maritime cultural heritage scholarship.
Selected Internet Bibliographies
Nautical Archaeology:
Includes: African diaspora, Latin America, slave trade, and many related topics
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