Searchable People Database

Try typing in a name such as Adams or Collishaw - and follow one of the links for details. (Try different spellings for greater success.) Type in the family name first followed by a comma and then initials or first names (typing in more will narrow the search result).

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Notes to Viewer:

Searches must begin with at least three (3) letters and do not need to be capitalized. The more specific the search item entry the fewer the returns you will get from the database. Searches currently return ten items per page.Try searches with different spellings or insertion of spaces and punctuation marks to increase success.

What are the abbreviations used in the searchable databases?

Here is documentation of the abbreviations in use, and their expanded meanings. List of Abbreviations in Use in the Searchable Database


To quote from the search of this database please cite:

MacFarlane, John M. (2013) The Nauticapedia Project Nautical Biography Database Nauticapedia.ca 2013. http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/dbsubmit_Biography.php

Nauticapedia

Site News: March 16, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 91,134 vessel histories (with 15,557 images and 12,826 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,612 entries (with 4,007 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 semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.

Also my special thanks to my volunteer content checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who has proofread thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 10,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.


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