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

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

http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/
Thanks to dorbel

Randi wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:21 pm 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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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