Ship Modeling FAQ, Part 12/12 (WWW: 25K)
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This is the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ (part 12) on ship modeling.
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105. What's available on the WWW?
A. LOTS!
What's available depends on what "access methods" you have
available.
WWW (access using Lynx, Mosiac, Netscape, etc.)
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{ A note about the addresses presented. When I show:
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/ship-models-faq
...that is interpreted as:
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| | |_ the path to the file
| |__ the Internet address
|___ the method - in this case, FTP
....these are shown in this way so that people viewing this FAQ
using a World Wide Web browser -such as Mosaic or Netscape- can
simply click on these addresses to go there.
The organization follows that developed in "Maritime History",
maintained by Lars Bruzelius
}
NOTE: I record these addresses, but don't necessarily visit them on a
regular basis. Thus, I may not know if they "disappear". If
you try to access one and it appears to be no longer available,
please send me Email at: mailto:ko...@aimnet.com ; I'll check it
out and delete the reference if it's really gone. Thanks.
"Maritime History": a GREAT!!! WWW location, maintained by Lars
Bruzelius:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Nautica.html .
(He also has additional resources at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/ ,
...one of which is a set of pointers to other maritime sites at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/www/Nautica/Pointers.html .)
"The Information Seaway" (Clay Feldman's Seaways' Ships in Scale page)
is at:
http://www.seaways.com .
It includes a link to a Seaways "chat room", for exchange of
information.
"ABL SHIP MODELS" 'builds all kinds of scale ship models to order. All
models are from kiln dry mahogany, accurately and carefully hand built.
We have been producing models for 20 years and have been exporting to
the United States for 8 years.', at:
http://www.transend.com.tw/~stuart/abl/index.html .
Fine Scale Modeler has a home page at:
http://www.cabm.rutgers.wdu/~hooper/minatures/bill/fsm.html .
You will find the Traplet Publications site (publishers of Marine
Modelling) at: *NEW*
http://www.traplet.co.uk/traplet/
...and specifically Marine is at"
http://www.traplet.co.uk/traplet/MM.html .
"A Guide to Maritime History Information on the Internet", at:
http://ils.unc.edu/maritime/home.html .
"Welcome to East Coast Model Center" (primarily RC models), at:
http://www.peinet.pe.ca/ECMC/ .
"RC-Sailing Infocenter" (RC Sailboats, from Finland), at:
http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/surcp/rcsail.htm .
"The World of the Vikings" This is an excellent guide to Vikings
resources on the Internet
http://www.demon.co.uk/history/vikings/vikhome.html .
"Viking Navy" home page (thoughts on Viking ships), at:
http://www.digalog.com/viking .
"The Marine Art Information Center", at: *NEW*
http://www.panix.com/~artlis/marine.html .
"Nautica On Line" (Nautica is the first italian yachting magazine
(over 30 years old) and Nautica On Line is the *first* italian yachting
magazine - perhaps the first in Europe - going on the Web.) At:
http://www.mclink.it/nautica .
"MC-Link Nautical Home Page", at:
http://www.mclink.it/n/nautica/index.htm ;
http://www.mclink.it/n/nautica/indice.htm (Italian Version).
"Minesweeper" (the game), at:
http://www.linc.or.jp/~hamano/game/minesweeper.html
"National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)", at:
http://kingfish.ssp.nmfs.gov/home-page.html .
"Kelsey Museum Educational and Outreach Programs", at:
http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/Kelsey/Outreach.html .
"Library WWW Servers" has a large list of on-line libraries:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/~tdowling/libweb.html .
Thomas Register. Yes! it's online and you can search it too! The URL is:
http://www.thomasregister.com/ .
"The Woodworking Catalog", at:
http://www.woodworking.com/ .
Stuart Wier's Great Encouragement to Shipwrights is at:
http://www.efn.org/~jkohnen/nautical.html -or-
ftp://efn.org/pub/users/jkohnen/nautical/sources.lst
The Story of the Titanic, a recapture of the basic facts about the
ship and the catastrophy. At:
http://www.ida.his.se/ida/~a94hango/titanic.chtml .
"Titanic Home Page", at:
http://gil.ipswitchcity.qld.au/~dalgarry/ .
"RMS Titanic 83 Years Later". The Virginia Newspaper Project examines
the news; covering the sinking of RMS Titanic, April 14, 1912; at:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/vnp/titpref.html .
"Canadian Maritimes '95" - A cruise of the schooner Black Pearl, the
ketch Christobal, the frigate Rose, and other ships northwards via the
Canadian Maritimes, at:
http://www.image-earth.com .
The rec.models.scale FAQ (the non ship-model specific version) is
archived at:
http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/model_faq.html ; there's another at:
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~dfk/ .
"Hobby Link Japan", at: *NEW*
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~dfk/companies/HLJ/hlj.html .
"Floating Drydock" has a page at: *NEW*
http://www.usbusiness.com/drydock
(email:dry...@postoffice.ptd.net) .
"rec.models.scale Home Page", at:
http://meteor.anu.edu.au/~dfk/scale_model.html /
Randy Gordon-Gilmour's article on DIY photoetching is available on the
World Wide Web at: *NEW*
http://phoenix.bath.ac.uk/~justinw/two_mm/etch/etch.html .
For those of you who might be interested, there is now a WWW page
devoted to R/C Combat. Page already contains some pictures, and a FAC.
At:
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nblattau .
"Rc (Radio Contrpl) V3.02", at:
http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/RC/Fils_RC.html .
"Radio Controlled Hobbies", at:
http://www.biddeford.com/~agertlof .
"The Big Gun Warship Combat", at:
http://www.pacificnet.net/~rkehr/big-gun1.htm .
"Model Boats", (under construction) at:
http://www.bendigo.net.au/~jstein/mboat.html .
"Tugboats", at:
http://www.tugboats.com .
"the most beautiful half hulls ever made", at:
http://www.ezone.com/model/ .
"JEM R/C Electronics"; at:
www.worldlink.ca/~jem/ .
extremely fast model boats, at: *NEW*
http://www.tiac.net/users/pmcg/boat.html .
model schooners, at: *NEW*
http://www.pittelli.com/schooner/ .
R/C Submarines, at *NEW*
http://home.aol.com/dmeriman .
Pointers to sites of maritime interest
======================================
"Information on ports", at:
http://www.achilles.net/~cmacd/marine.html .
"The International Guild of Knot Tyers at:
http://fourier.dur.ac.uk:8000/~dds8sgg/SCOUTING/IGKT.html .
"The Knotting Dictionary of Kannet", at:
http://www.ida.his.se/ida/~jan/knopar.eng.html .
"The Miramar" life on board the motor vessel Miramar sailing in the
Pudget Sound. at:
http://www.seanet.com/Users/deanl/miramar.html .
"The Pirate Page" at:
http://www2.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/pirates/piratepage.html .
"Age of Discovery Web": Renaisance-period Nautical information, and
links to other sites, at:
http://www.synergy.net/Piazza/SeaLore/sealore.html .
"Peabody Essex Museum", at:
http://www.star.net/salem/pem/
"Marine Paintings & Drawings". A marvellous collection of 80 marine
paintings from the collections of the Essex Peabody Museum, Salem, MA,
USA. These pictures are well-known to anyone who have studied the
beautiful catalogues of the collection by the Brewingtons and P.C.F.
Smith. At:
http://www.star.net/salem/pem/maritm3.htm
"The S. S. Canadiana Preservation Society, Inc", at:
http://www.localnet.com/~fbaker/canadiana/canadiana.html .
Miscellaneous
=============
"The Antique and Classic Boat Society", North West Chapter (of USA).
At:
http://www.halcyon.com/pford/acbsx.htm .
"The American Sail Advancement Program (ASAP)". Information on the new
St. Petersburg ( Florida) Sail Expo trade show, November 2-5, 1995. At:
http://www.paw.com/sail/ASAP/ .
"The Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race:, at:
http://www.ftech.co.uk/~channel/wfest/pages/tsgall.htm .
"CyberCruising on San Francisco Bay", at:
http://www.microtech.com/cybercruise .
"Epcom Communications", a maritime recording studio, at:
http://www.cygnus.nb.ca/epcom//index.html .
"Guillemot Kayaks". Kayak building information includes information on
strip building and stitch and glue, and traditional (baidarka)
techniques from the New England area. The primary emphasis is on sea
kayaks. Also information and pictures from Gail Ferris about paddling
in the arctic. At:
http://www.mindport.net/~schade/Kayak.html .
"MS Estonia disaster", at:
http://www.viabalt.ee/News/sos/ .
"Call me Fishmeal", at:
http://www.well.com/www/pk/fishmeal.html .
"Great Circle Distance Calculator" at:
http://warpig.cati.csufresno.edu/cs150.html .
"Interactive Marine Observations". A visual interface to the lastest
worldwide marine weather information being reported by automated
weather stations. At:
http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/~nws/buoy/ .
"International Council for the Exploration of the Sea", at:
http://www.ices.inst.dk/ .
"Flags Of The World (FOTW)", for anyone interested in modern flags
(there are a few old ones such as the German States and some US Civil
War flags). At: *NEW*
http://www.cesi/flags/ftp.html .
"International maritime signal flags", at:
http://155.187.10.12/flags/signal-flags.html ,
and their meaning, at:
http://155.187.10.12/flags/signal-meaning.html .
"Museum Information"; at Oxford, UK; links to (general) museums, at:
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/info.html .
"Metal Web News" (Metal-working stuf, including that FAQ), at:
http://tbr.state.tn.us/~wgray/index.html .
"Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources on the Web"; at Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County; links to (general) museums, at:
http://www.usc.edu/lacmnh/webmuseums .
Inland waterways of United Kingdom, at:
http://www.rscom.com/boat/ *NEW*
"King RC Online Hobby Shop", at:
http://www.twinds.com/kingrc/kingrc.htm .
"Bill's Lighthouse Getaway". This travelog of US east and west-coast
lighthouses now includes over 40 lights, plus other info for the
lighthouse fanatic. At:
http://www.lib.utk.edu/lights.html .
"Larry Barker's Boating Page", at:
http://www.teleport.com/~lgbarker/boating.html .
"Liners & Transatlantics", despite the title only pointers to other
places.
http://s2.iway.fr/staff/jcpatat/infos/liners.html .
"Maritime HomePage", at:
http://www.webcom.com/~maritime/welcome.html .
"Miniature Ship Models", at:
http://cabin.rutgers.edu/~hooper/minatures/navmod24.html .
"The Miramar," life on board the motor vessel Miramar sailing in
the Pudget Sound. At:
http://www.seanet.com/Users/deanl/miramar.html .
"Aguanaut", at:
http://bighorn.terra.net/aquanaut/ ; and:
"The Nautical Art Home Page". Empty so far. At:
http://bighorn.terra.net/artonline/aol/naut.html .
"Det Norske Veritas", a maritime classification society established
1864, at:
http://www.dnv.no/Welcome.html .
"The Poseidon Project", at:
http://velox.stanford.edu/hellas/poseidon.html .
Reality Software (mailto:ben...@pipeline.com) has a couple of samples
of a Screen saver; "Tall Ships 1" and "Classic Sailboats", respectively,
at:
http://www.maine.com:80/reality/tallshps.html ; and:
http://www.maine.com:80/reality/sail.html .
"Welcome to Salem, Massachusetts", at:
http://www.star.net/salem/default.htm .
"The Scale Models Forum", at:
http://www.startext.net/interact/models.htm
"The Semaphore Flag Signalling System.", at:
http://155.187.10.12/flags/semaphore.html .
"The Steamships of Stockholm", at:
http://sics.se/~jussi/steamer.html .
"Tri-Coast Marine" at:
http://www.hooked.net/users/tricoast/ .
"Ron Ginger's Home Page" A Model Boat builder. Also information on the
"Traditional Small Craft Association", "TSCA of Peabody Museum" and
"North America Model Engineer Show". At:
http://www.ultranet.com/~ginger/
Books and Book Shops
====================
"Stephen's Home Page", mostly pointers to other well known sites. at:
http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~sjones/index.html .
"The Commodore", by Patrick O'Brian. Chapter One. At:
http://freeside.princeton.edu/commodore.html .
"Databoat", boat plans and marine related books. At:
http://www.databoat.com .
"The entire Fernhurst Books catalog". at:
http://www.paw.com/sail/Fernhurst .
"Nautical Brass", a bimonthly illustrated magazine for the collector's
of nautical antiques.
http://www.supernet.net/commerce/nbrass.htm .
"Nautical Fiction List". at:
http://www.efn.org/~jkohnen/nautical/nautfic.lst , or:
ftp://efn.org/pub/users/jkohnen/nautical/nautfic.lst .
"Warsash Nautical Bookshop", at:
http://www.aladdin.co.uk/wnbooks/ .
Sailing Ships
=============
"Age of Sail Page" at:
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/sail.html .
"Angelo Mascaro Sailing Page" at the following url:
http://www.inrete.it/vela/vela.html
English readers might prefer the following:
http://www.inrete.it/vela/sail.html
"Armada de la Libertecute" sail training ships at Rouen, France,
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day." at:
http://www.cnam.fr/Images/Armada/ .
"A History of Ships Named Enterprise", at:
http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~djc/startrek/SNE.html .
"The Continental Sloop Providence Unofficial Home Page", at:
http://shakti.trincoll.edu:80/~jconstan/providence.html .
"BREST 96" The international meeting of ships and sailors,
13 to 20 July 1996. at:
http://www.enst-bretagne.fr:3000/anglais/Home_page_gb.html .
"The Marco Polo reconstruction project" at:
http://www.cygnus.nb.ca/epcom/marcopolo/project.html .
"Sailing Page", at:
http://community.bellcore.com/mbr/sailing-page.html .
"Sail Training Association (STA)" at:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~sta1/ .
"Salem Builds a Tallship". A re-construction of the Friendship built
in Salem 1797. At:
http://www.star.net/salem/tallship.htm .
"Bluenose II Preservation Trust", at:
http://fox.nstn.ca/~rschofie/bluenoseII.html .
"HMS Bounty", at:
http://www.pictac.com/~jack/bounty.html .
"Carrie E.Phillips" (Schooner, 1887) of Provincetown, at:
http://www.cris.com/~Davemoo/schooner.html .
"The Sailing site", at:
http://www.gosailing.com/
...it contains "Lady Washington". Revisiting Our [American] Maritime
Heritage. A reconstruction of the 1788 brig Lady Washington, which
was launched in 1989, is operated by the Grays Harbor Historical
Seaport, Aberdeen, WA; at:
http://www.gosailing.com/ladywash.html .
"The three-masted schooner Linden", of Mariehamn, Aland (Finland), at:
http://www.aalnet.aland.fi:80/Hotell/linden .
"The Maritime Hertitage Alliance" The Madeline is a reconstruction of a
mid 19th century fore and aft schooner built by the non-profit
organisation the Maritime Heritage Alliance, Traverse City, MI, in 1990.
At:
http://ns1.win.net/~torresen/madeline.htm .
"Sailing with the Pride of Baltimore II", at:
http://cvinet.com/pride .
"Thames Barge - Marie May". The restoration of a Thames Barge built by
Hutsons of Maidstone in 1920, at:
http://www.aladdin.co.uk/sihe/mariemay.htm .
"The SS Cherokee Belle", a place for Steamboat Buffs and Mark Twain
fans to share stories and information, at:
http://www.acy.digex.net/~capnmark/home.html .
:The Tugboat Page", restoration of the Wildflower, at:
http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~bpumphrey/tug.htmlx .
Boat and Ship Building
======================
A collection of links on this subject can be found at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Shipbuilding.html .
Maritime Museums and Research Projects
======================================
"Center for Wooden Boats" at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~cwboats .
"Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum" at:
http://www.washcoll.edu/Museum/bay.html .
"Combined Caesarea Expeditions Underwater Excavations", at: *NEW*
http://www.carleton.ca/~ereinhar/CaesareaHome.html .
"Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic", Lunenburg, NS, Canada. At:
http://rs6000.nshpl.library.ns.ca./nsmuseum/fma.html .
"Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves", at:
http://199.44.58.12/dostate/dhr/bar .
"Hall of American Maritime Enterprise" (Smithsonian), at:
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/homepage/docs/marit19.htm .
Index to underwater archaeology resources on the Internet, with some
very useful information about Scuba diving and other underwater
archaeology. Its URL is:
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~trabourn/underwater.html
"Little Salt Spring Underwater Archaeology Project" (In Florida), at:
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/lss.html .
"L'archaeologie sous les mers, techniques et recherches" une exposition
de la Mission de la recherche et de la Maison des sciences de l'homme au
Muse; archeologique de Nice-Cimiez du 27 mai au 4 septembre 1994 ey ai
siege central du CNRS du 14 novembre au 7 decembre 1994. (The french
ministry of culture is pleased to announce a virtual exhibition on the
Web dedicated to sub-marine archeology.) At:
http://www.culture.fr/culture/archeosm/archeosm.htm .
"Mariner's Museum" (Newport News, VA), at:
http://www.mariners.org/mariners/ .
"Maritime Museum of the Atlantic", Halifax, NS, Canada. At:
http://rs6000.nshpl.library.ns.ca./nsmuseum/mma.html
"Detailed Contents for the Mil-Hist Site", "American Civil War", at:
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/milhst/w_site.html#amciv .
"Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University and the
Institute of Nautical Archaeology", at:
http://nautarch.tamu.edu .
"North Carolina Maritime Museum", at:
http://www.agr.state.nc.us/maritime/index.htm .
"Pandora" (the one associated with the HMS Bounty) is at: *NEW*
http://wavefront.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/pandora.html .
SeaLore is the Internet homeport for the Mary Rose Virtual Maritime
Museum, Portsmouth, England the tallship "HMS" Rose, a working example
of a 18th c. British navy frigate. HMS Rose was recently featured in
a two page spread in the July 3rd issue of Forbes magazine. It's at:
http://www.synergy.net/homeport.html , and at:
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~yama/news95.htm , and a site dedicated
to educational visits at:
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~mary-rose/ ;
mailto:mary...@cix.compulink.co.uk .
"Shipbuilding on the Delaware" an Exhibition at the Franklin Institute
Science Museum. At:
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/exhibits/ships.html.
"Hart Nautical Collection" at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. At:
http://web.mit.edu/museum/www/collections/hart.html .
"Guide to Historic Ship Wrecks" in Great Britain. Descriptions of 41
wreck sites designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act of 1973. At:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ukdiving/misc/deswreck.htm .
Michael Dun at the Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies has links to
lists of maritime museums and other information, data on Maritime Fife
in Scotland, and examples of Letters of Marque.
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_sa/personal/md4/index.html .
"The Steamer William G. Mather Museum" (Cleveland, Ohio). An excellent
presentation of this museum. Includes links to other Great Lakes sites.
At:
http://little.nhlink.net/wgm/wgmhome.html .
"Newsletter from Roskilde", with articles about the testing of a full-
scale replica of a medieval cargo carrier from the Baltic, about recent
excavations in an 8th century military canal in Denmark, and more. You
will find the edition on:
www.natmus.min.dk , *NEW*
by selecting the headlines "Publikationer pe nettet", "Nyhedsbrev fra
Roskilde" and "Nr. 5 - December 1995". You can also select "English
Version".
"Underwater Shipwreck State Parks and Historic Sites", at:
http://www.indiana.edu:80/~scuba/project.html
"Statens Sjohistoriska Museum", Stockholm. The National Maritime Museum
of Sweden. At:
http://www.telemuseum.se/museer/SSHM/Home.HTML .
"Three of Facets Maritime Archaeology: Society, Landscape and Critique"
by Anthony Firth, University of Southampton. At:
http://avebury.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/Firth/ .
"The "Wasa" Museum", Stockholm. At:
http://www.sunet.se/stockholm/museums/vasa/vasa.html .
"The Western Australian Maritime Museum" this server is still at an
experimental stage. This site is currently overloaded with graphics
which together with a *slow* link gives poor performance. With lots of
info on the Maritime Museum, Dutch and other shipwrecks in this corner
of the globe, and on the Departments of Maritime Archaeology and of
Maritime History in Western Australia, as well as hypertext links
to other sites. At:
http://www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum.html .
A related site for "The Australian Institute for Nautical Archaeology"
is at:
http://www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum/aima/Bulletin18_2/Index.html .
"Underwater Archaeology", at:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Underwater_Archaeology/bfd/ .
"Velkommen til Nationalmuseet", The National Museum of Denmarh, at:
HTTP://WWW.NATMUS.MIN.DK/ .
Boating
=======
A collection of links on this subject can be found at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Boating.html .
Yachting
========
A collection of links on this subject can be found at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Yachting.html .
There's also subsections on 'Yacht Clubs', 'Individual Classes', 'Power
Boats, 'Races', and on 'Yachts, Boats and equipment for sale'.
Research Ships
==============
"World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Cruise A23" at:
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/a23/welcome.html
The Marine Tech group of Oregon State University College of Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Sciences has brought up a new Mosaic Home Page for their ship R/V
WECOMA. It is available at:
http://www.oce.orst.edu/Wecoma/WecomaHome.html .
"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), at:
http://www.noaa.gov ; and:
Fleet Replacement and Modernization" at:
http://www.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/imagemap/noaa_collage?201,324 .
"Research Ship Information and Cruise Schedules" at:
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/ships/ship_menu.html .
"Research Vessels Services" The United Kingdom's Natural Environment
Research Council. At:
file://ua.nrb.ac.uk/pub/rvshome.html .
"US Coast Guard Research and Development Center" Groton, CT." at:
http://138.29.250.20 .
"The Alfred Wegener Institute" for Polar and Marine Research. At:
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de .
- also, a picture of R/V Polarstern at:
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Pics/Polarstern.jpeg .
Diving
======
A collection of links on this subject can be found at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Diving.html .
Naval
=====
"Real Time Support for the Warrior", from The Advanced Information
Technology Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory at:
http://www.ait.nrl.navy.mil/rts/warrior.html .
"Combat Boat 90H", a Swedish assault boat for amphibious landings. At:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~d94-pek/sboat.html .
"Fighting Ships of Pearl Harbor", at:
http://www.autometric.com/AUTO/html/must_see.html#fighting_ships .
"Naval Surface Warfare Center" Carderock Division. Formerly the David
Taylor Model Basin. At:
http://www50.dt.navy.mil .
"Ships & Navy Homepage" maintained by Andrew Toppan
<mailto:el...@wpi.edu> at:
http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy.html .
"NavyOnLine Homepage" at:
http://www.ncts.navy.mil .
"The Naval Postgraduate School", Monterey, CA, at:
http://www.nps.navy.mil .
"Edward Smyth's Shipping and Nautical Info." at:
http://boris.qub.ac.uk/edward/Ships.html .
"Ship Reunions", at:
http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~jgriffin/navy.html .
"State of the Russian Navy", at:
http://webcom.com/~amraam/rnav.html .
"Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic" at:
http://www.saclant.nato.int .
U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, is on-line at:
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/
(check out the Preble Museum and the Henry Huddleston Rogers ship
model collection; gallery.html), at:
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/preble.html .
"United States Coast Guard", at:
http://www.webcom.com/~d13www/welcome.html .
"Ron Martini's Navy Submarine Page" at:
http://wave.sheridan.wy.us/~rontini/ronpage.html .
"U.S. Navy", at:
http://www.navy.mil .
"NAVAL SEA CADETS' WWW site", at:
http://www.tucson.com/nscc
Charters, Cruises & Cruise-lines
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A collection of links on this subject can be found at:
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Cruises.html .
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