Maritime history
Information on this page will help you research Southampton's links to the sea.
- Southampton archives
- Central index of merchant seamen
- Maritime and local collections: ships and shipping are a major theme of these collections, including photographs, paintings, drawings, prints and ship models
- Local history & Maritime Digital Archive
- Historic Environment Record (HER)
- Oral history: this archive includes interviews and projects relating to the maritime history of local communities in Southampton
- Heritage Gateway
Available from the local studies library
- Mercantile Navy Lists. 1857 - 1976: This source contains similar information to Lloyd's Register, but only covers British ships. Importantly, it includes ships of fewer than 100 tons, which are usually excluded from Lloyd's
- Board of Trade enquiries into Wrecks. 1876 - 1972: These volumes contain reports of enquiries into British ship wrecks in a given year
- Other registers include Talbot Booth's Merchant Ships, and its successor Jane's Merchant Ships and Lloyd's Register of Yachts
- Information on the Titanic
