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SHIPS IMAGES





bb011  ISTG - Our Own Photo Gallery
One of our members, Sharon, has collected some ship images from around the world. This is an ongoing project. She has generously contributed her collection to be included on this web site along with other photos from other members and sources.

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bb011  American Sail Training Association - ASTA
Go to "site map" and then "ASTA Member Vessels" and there are many ships with descriptions and images.

bb011  WWW Art Resources and Sounds and Things

bb011  Australian National Maritime Museum
Diary excerpts or voice recordings, clothing and personal belongings bring alive the experience of sea travel from the convict era and the conditions experienced by voyagers. Reproductions of historic images from the photographic collections are becoming available, and many standard reference sources for research on ships and shipping such as "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" and "Jane's Fighting Ships" are included.

bb011  AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
The Photo Archive is an on-line searchable database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's current and historical images for the last 150 years, some of which are ship, immigration, The Barge Office and many more. http://users.pandora.be/ludo.van.moorleghem/listboten.htm

bb011  Ship Images from Boten
Directory of ship images from the Boten web page

bb011  The Library of Congress
"Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs 1880-1920" available by the Detroit Publishing Company. This is a searchable, indexed site with many images of ships, which can be enlarged for online viewing as well as thousands of old photographs on any subject imaginable.

bb011  Cimorelli Enterprises: Digitized Images
Their objective is to provide our clients with digitized images of their cherished photographs and historical documents. This business was started for genealogists, giving them an inexpensive way to add photographs to their genealogy programs.

bb011  Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum
(German Maritime Museum), Bremerhaven, Germany
The main emphasis on ship research is the development of steam and motor-powered shipping. On this site there are many maps from the early modern period (the 19th and the 20th centuries), archived documents include seamen's registration books, menus on board, shares of the shipping companies, personal notes to ship, technical diaries, letters, reports and a rich collection of advertising posters are a few examples.

bb011  Fine Art Emporium
World Register of Ship Portraits in Private Collections and in the Art Trade:
The Emporium has a large collection of exquisite ships portraits listed alphabetically by the ship's name, Information on the artist with one example of work will be shown, but not necessarily an image of the ship you are looking for. View the Marine Paintings and Drawings as well as those for purchase. All images can be enlarged with a double click.

bb011  International Sail Training Association - ISTA:
Click on "ships" at the top of the page
Vessal Database
Type of Rig
Sail types

bb011  The Skeleton Closet: Welcome to Davey Jones' Locker
South Australia Ship Database - alphabetical order. (Description and image of each ship is under construction.)

bb011  Kinships: Passenger Immigrant Vessels of Your Ancestors
You'll find images of passenger ships, contemporary maritime advertising art, European costume, and European royalty

bb011  Maritime Art
Marine Art Information Center: A picture gallery of marine watercolors and paintings supplemented by information on maritime art: auctions, galleries, history, photography, reference materials and museums.

bb011  Marine Art Information Center Home Port
Collections of Marine Photographs: There are a number of databases to search, such as Lighthouse, Photographic Archives, Tall and Classic Ships, Naval, Coastal, Ports, Racing and more.

bb011   The Mariner's Museum, Virginia, USA
Photography: The Museum offers photographic reproductions of images in its collection of more than 650,000 photographs. Subjects include naval vessels, ocean liners, Liberty and Victory ships, Coast Guard vessels, steamboats, lighthouses and lightships, harbors and seaports, shipyards, sailing craft, small craft, and a variety of other maritime topics.

bb011  Maritime Art

bb011  Marine Art Galleries in the United States

bb011   Photographs from the Archives:
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Canada
Canada Steamship Lines

bb011  Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum
"Collection" link shows images or models of 5 ships (City of Savannah, The Anne, Steamship Savannah, The Wanderer, and, of course, The Titanic).

bb011  Great Ships: Postcard and Ephemera Collection
Index of Ships on the Site
History's Fourteen Four-Funneled Liners
Worlds Largest Liners
The Blue Riband of the North Atlantic
Liverpool Landing Stage Views

bb011  South African Maritime Museum: John H Marsh Maritime Collection
A catalogue of a collection of 18000 photographs of 9200 ships taken in South Africa mainly between 1921 and 1953

bb011  Classic Steamers: From the Post Card Collection of Jeff Newman

bb011  Ships and Shipping: Tacoma Public Library, Washington
This database contains a searchable index of more than 13,000 ships. It provides full text information on 1,000 ships built on the Pacific Coast and ships with a connection to the Pacific Northwest. The database includes the names (and former names) of vessels, their builders, careers, and disposition.

bb011  The Library of Virginia: Virginia Colonial Records Project
Digital Library Program
This program transfers rare and unique Virginia materials into an integrated, user-friendly electronic research environment. Since its inception in 1995, the Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids.

bb011   World Register of Ship Portraits 18-20th Century Marine Art

bb011   World Register of Ship Portraits 19th Century Ship Portraits

bb011  World Register of Ship Portraits Private Coll. & Art Trade Index



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Research for the original information found in the ISTG COMPASS was conducted by Harriet Rosch and the late Donna Jackson. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists.


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