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The Scope of the Research Databases

There are two research databases in the Nauticapedia, each offering extensive contents for research.

They are the:

The links to individual database names (above) will show an up-to-date report on the state of their contents and scope.The lists are not complete,it's their very nature that will ensure that they are always being expanded and updated. Some are complete enough to stand alone, but others represent what we know at the moment.

New facts are added to the database every day. The FAQ (Frequently-asked or Frequently-answered Questions) tab will provide information about the authority lists used to standardize the attributes collected and entered for individual records.

Nauticapedia

Site News: April 24, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 92,289 vessel histories (with 15,634 images and 13,293 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,616 entries (with 4,013 images).

In 2023 the Nauticapedia celebrated the 50th Anniversary of it’s original inception in 1973 (initially it was on 3" x 5" file cards). It has developed, expanded, digitized and enlarged in those ensuing years to what it is now online. If it was printed out it would fill more than 300,000 pages!

My special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into a semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.

Also my special thanks to my volunteer content accuracy checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who has proofread thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 11,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.

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