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World Maritime & Naval History |
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Naval history is a simply enormous subject with an equally enormous following of the devoted and dedicated, amateur and professional who between them have spawned a vast array of websites offering access to almost any facet of naval history you care top imagine. |
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A good starting site for the general history of naval warfare from ancient times to the present, biased as is too usual towards western history, but with plenty of links, is at
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalwarfare/ |
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The British National Maritime Museum in Greenwich also has an excellent site for beginning research into the subject, beginning with ancient times but biased towards western history, at
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/maritime-galleries/ |
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NMHS, Sea History, Maritime History http://www.seahistory.org/, the website of the National Maritime Historical Society is an excellent starting point for American maritime history
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For research into maritime history in the North Atlantic the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Maritime Archive Centre can be found at
http://www.mun.ca/mha/ |
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An excellent, biography based, but Eurocentric guide to maritime history is at http://www.cannylink.com/historymaritime.htm |
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Worldwide in range, but focused on Britain, First World War naval history is very well covered at http://www.naval-history.net/. More comprehensive coverage of naval operations in the First World War, with excellent pictures, is at
http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/ |
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US Navy history is well covered on the official US Navy history website http://www.history.navy.mil/, where there is also an excellent bibliography. And you'll find a good US Navy photographic archive at http://www.navsource.org/. |
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The official Royal Navy British naval history is at http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/. But a good alternative is a links site http://www.comradesandcolleagues.com/links/navalhistory.htmlwith a few select but good links.
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For both UK and US see Haze Gray and Underway's Naval History Information center at http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/. |
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The German Navy's history at /http://www.german-navy.de. |
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Danish naval history is at http://www.navalhistory.dk |
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An extremely rich site for the Russian Navy is at
http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/book/book-cont.html. |
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Aspects of Dutch naval history, via the excellent Amsterdam Marinemuseum site are at http://www.marinemuseum.nl/uk/wapenfeiten/ |
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A quite extraordinary site, if you are interested in the history of naval ships, is http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk which, despite its UK provenance, has data on the Argentinian, Australian, Austro-Hungarian, Belgian, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Maltese, New Zealand, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, US, and Uruguayan Navies, various other smaller navies, unidentified ships, naval losses, ocean liners, ports and dockyards, major naval commanders and naval expeditions, as well as ship name histories! It is also a web link to a reproduction company that will provide fine art prints of any of the scores of images and paintings on the site.
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British and commonwealth naval aviation history can be accessed at http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/History/Index.htm |
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For European naval history, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, including a web based version of William James' 1837 Naval History of Great Britain 1793 - 1827, as well as excellent statistics, naval records, lists of ships and their service, etc., see http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html. On the same site http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/Times/1841/08.html has coverage of Royal Naval ship movements during the British annexation of Hong Kong in 1841. And http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Boxer/Boxer.html has contemporary news coverage of the British naval involvement in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. |
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A new research tool for naval history on the web is at
http://navalhistory.flixco.info/ |
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For web based research on naval history - biased towards western naval history - it is hard to do better than The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Naval and Maritime: Naval History and Maritime Strategy, .http://vlnavmar.usnaweb.org/history.html which has links to more sites than can be visited in months |
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There is need for only one entry here, the brilliant http://www.termisti.refer.org/nauterm/dicten.htm#en has almost the most comprehensive listing of online dictionaries that one can imagine. If there's a nautical term of which you want to find out meaning, you'll be likely to find a reference here to help you hunt it down. The site is biased towards European languages - but that's because nautical dictionaries and encyclopaedias are too. |
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The Maritime Union of Australia represents around 11,000 Australian men and women - stevedoring workers (wharfies), seafarers, divers and port workers. http://www.mua.org.au/ |
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Maritime History and Maritime Research. You can information sources and research applications at this site.
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