Huge Set of Ship Registers Now Available Online

Mystic Seaport (with the help of The Mariners' Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum, The Peabody Essex Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) has put together a collection of the earliest-published American ship registers. They begin with the New York Marine Register (1857) and go through The Record of American and Foreign Shipping for 1900. This 55 volumes containing about 50,000 pages and a million records. They're available at http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/ShipRegisterList.cfm.

Registers are listed individually (there are some yacht registers here too). Clicking on a register volume gives you the ability the browse the volume's ships, brigs, barks, schooners, and steamers alphabetically.

If you want to search, you can do that too; start at http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/VMSearch.cfm . Here you can search by shipmaster name or by vessel name and rig type. Results include ship name, shipmaster name, and volume where it appears. The ship name links to the volume and page where it appears.

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