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[edit] Sources

[edit] United States Navy

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/index.html and http://hazegray.org/danfs/

The public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships is the primary source for information about pre-Cold War United States Navy ships. Its coverage from the Cold War onward has been poor, but improvement efforts are underway.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/DANFS conversions for tips on turning DANFS info into a good Wikipedia article. If you use DANFS, add {{DANFS}} to the article's References section.

http://www.nvr.navy.mil

The Naval Vessel Register is a public domain resource for ships currently in commission and some recently retired ones.

http://www.navsource.org

NavSource is a good source of pictures but not all have Wikipedia-compliant copyrights.

http://combatindex.com/combatindex.html

Combat Index is another good source of pictures; pages on individual ships often contain photographs attributed to the US Navy, which makes them suitable for use on Wikipedia.

http://www.pmars.imsg.com/

The Maritime Administration maintains the Reserve Fleet and handles the disposal of ships. The site is particularly useful for information about scrapping and disposal, as well as ships loaned or sold out of service.

http://www.ncts.navy.mil/nol/

  • Navy On-Line lists nearly every U.S. Navy official and unofficial web site

[edit] Ship types

  • The United States Submarine Veterans Inc. is primarily a community of submariners, but has some information on submarines "on eternal patrol;" ie, lost.
  • Destroyers OnLine - to collect, preserve and display historical information about the ships, their crews and the U.S. Navy. Includes destroyers, escorts, and frigates; destroyer classes; alphabetical list; links; glossary, bibliography. Individual ship profiles may include history, photos, crew locator, and email from crewmembers.

[edit] Royal Navy

  • The maintainer of the Web site Ships of the Old Navy ( http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM ), which is devoted primarily to Napoleonic-era ships, has given Wikipedia permission to use any of his work. The Epopt has his statement of permission on file. The original site is no longer active, however its contents are available here.
  • The maintainer of the Web site Navyphotos has given permission for materials from his site to be used, with the stipulation that a link and/or acknowledgement is requested. David Newton has the email giving permission. This permission is not compliant with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. New images should not be uploaded from this site.
  • Her Majesty's Stationery Office has denied Wikipedia permission to copy anything under Crown Copyright. This includes the original imprints of ships' badges.

[edit] Soviet and Russian Navies

  • The copyright statement on the Web pages of the Bellona Foundation ( http://www.bellona.no/ ) states "(c) BELLONA - Reuse and reprint recommended provided source is stated." That requirement is compatible with the GFDL's requirement that history be maintained, so their excellent material may be used without restriction.

[edit] French Marine Nationale

  • A template infobox for French warships : User:Rama/FS_template
  • http://www.netmarine.net/ authorisation is given by the team of "NetMarine" to use their photographs. Therefore, you can use the images of
    • JM. Roche
    • G. Rueda
    • F. Dubey
    • Y. Le Bris
    • A. Morcello.
Note that other images are likely to be copyrighted by the Marine Nationale and that no special authorisation has been granted as for now.

[edit] Norway

[edit] Royal Norwegian Navy

[edit] Royal Australian Navy

  • The Royal Australian Navy's Sea Power Centre has histories of all the former ships of the Royal Australian Navy. Note that these histories are covered by copyright and cannot be reproduced on Wikipedia without the permission of the RAN.
  • The Australian War Memorial has photos of most RAN ships in its Collections Database. Photos taken prior to the early 1950s which have a copyright status of 'clear' may be reproduced on Wikipedia on the condition that the AWM's watermarks are not removed (see: User:Nick Dowling/Australian War Memorial Email). Permission must be obtained before reproducing more recent photos. The AWM also sells higher resolution versions of the photos in the database.
  • The AWM also has the official histories of the RAN in WW1 and WW2 available online. Note that the AWM still holds the copyright to these publications and permission must be obtained before any elements of them are reproduced.

[edit] Other Navies

[edit] WW2 ships

[edit] Multiple Categories

  • Jon Eastham's photos are of Naval and Commerical Shipping seen around Portsmouth, UK, including the Trafalgar 200 International Naval Review. Jon has offered to upload low resolution (300px width) copies of his images under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike, upon request. Contact Jon on his talk page.

[edit] Raw Dump

The links were copied from another site and have not been verified as useful. Caveat nautilus. Wikipedia has no permission to copy from any of these sites; all rights are reserved.

[edit] Submarines - General

[edit] Submarines - U.S.

  • http://www.momsen.org - Momsen.org - Page dedicated to the "Father of Submarine Rescue", Charles Bowers "Swede" Momsen and maintained by his granddaughter. Requires Internet Explorer; unusable with any other browser.

[edit] Submarines - Other Countries

[edit] Naval Links