Research Guides: Naval and Military Studies: Ship Information

Online Resources

Resources for a variety of information on ships and their history.

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Tells you which books, magazines, and online resources mention the vessels you're researching.

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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Compiled like an encyclopedia, each volume includes summary histories of U.S. Navy ships from certain sections of the alphabet. The volumes also include an assortment of appendices on small craft, dictionary entries for Confederate Navy ships and various essays related to naval ships.
Historic Naval Ships Association
Naval Vessel Register
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Official listing of vessel and homeport.
Ships of the Navy, 1940 - 1945
United States Navy Fact Files

A small selection of books available in the library on Ships. To find additional titles, search the Library Catalog.

Allied coastal forces of World War II
Call Number: Oversize Book Stacks V880.L35 1994
Civil War Navies, 1855-1883
Call Number: Reference and Book Stacks VA61 .S54 2001
German warships of the Second World War
Call Number: Book Stacks V767.L46 1976
German warships of World War I : the Royal Navy's official guide to the capital ships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and small craft, 1914-1918
Call Number: Oversize Book Stacks VA513.G47 1992
Jane's fighting ships
Call Number: VA40 .F52
The Encyclopedia of world sea power
Call Number: Spec Coll Paine Paine E56en 1989
Warships of the Civil War navies
Call Number: Book Stacks VA61.S573 1989

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