Ships' names: discussion

[Caro]

Please post questions and suggestions for additions or changes to the list of links for finding 'Ships' names' here.

[Randi]

Alaska Shipwrecks: https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks- ... pwrecks-a/

[Randi]

http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/
Thanks to dorbel

[AvastMH]

http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/
Thanks to dorbel

I tried searching for Bear but with no luck Perhaps her port of registry is the problem?

Name: SS Bear
Owner:
W. Grieve, Sons & Company 1874–1879
R. Steele Jr 1880–1883
Port of registry: St. John's, Newfoundland
Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. Greenock, Scotland
Launched: 1874
Identification: Official No. 66,840
Fate: Sold to U.S. government in 1884

[dorbel]

You need Clydeships.
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... essel=BEAR
Ships built on the Tyne and the Tees also have their own sites. Shippingand shipbuilding is intended to cover all the rest, Birkenhead, Barrow, Belfast, Hull etc.

[griddlesticks]

Hello! Would anyone have any resources about the ship prefixes used in 1900? I'm running into some trouble identifying ships as ship prefixes have changed quite a bit in the past 120 years (!) Thanks for any pointers!

[joke_slayer]

I have found an interesting site about U-boats: http://www.uboatarchive.net/index.html

Which includes a fairly large selection of digitized and translated logbooks: http://www.uboatarchive.net/KTBList.htm

[Randi]

[Michael]

I looked just in one logbook, but I saw no Baro or Temperature data.

[joke_slayer]

I've looked into a few of them, don't think I've seen any with temperature data, but a few do have pressure in mb, and a few of them do have a fair amount of ice observations, for example this one looks like it might have some useful data:

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-711/KTB711-3.htm

[Michael]

I'll send it along to Kevin. It would be very easy to find each occurrence of the word ice in those logs, and extract the position of the ship.

[studentforever]

For anyone editing the 19th century logs I came across this site on the French Navy of the period

https://www.shipscribe.com/marvap/classes.html

Gives specs of many of the ships of the period but no details about their service.

[Randi]

[Randi]

From Kevin: https://atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/index.htm

[AvastMH]

That's a great number of cable ships. Astronomic amounts of cable!

[Maikel]

List of Philippines ships (1903):

Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War (Google Books)
Appendix E: List of vessels in the Philippine Islands with certificates of protection outstanding June 30, 1903