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This is the Frequently Asked Questions FAQ (part 16) on ship modeling.

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105.    What's available on the WWW?
     A. LOTS!
        This section is for WWW (access using Lynx, Mosiac, Netscape,
        etc.).

 NOTE:  See part 01 for the interpretation of these addresses.

 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:kopfj@aimnet.com ; I'll check it
        out and delete the reference if it's really gone.  Thanks.

                CONTINUED FROM PART 15


This part of the FAQ has sections labeled:
        Miscellaneous
        Sailing Ships
        Maritime Museums and Research Projects (including Nautical Archaeology)
        Research Ships
        Government / Military





        Miscellaneous
        =============

"The Antique and Classic Boat Society", Pacific North West Chapter
(of USA).  At:
    http://www.halcyon.com/pford/acbsx.htm .

"MS Estonia disaster", at:
    http://www.viabalt.ee/News/sos/ .

"Call me Fishmeal", at:
    http://www.well.com/www/pk/fishmeal.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.dk/ .

"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 .

"The Semaphore Flag Signalling System.", at:
    http://155.187.10.12/flags/semaphore.html .

"Metal Web News" (Metal-working stuff, including that FAQ), at:
    http://tbr.state.tn.us/~wgray/index.html .

"British Waterways Official Website", at:
    http://www.rscom.com/boat/ .

"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://zuma.lib.utk.edu/lights/ .

"Aquanaut" (scuba diving), at:
    http://www.aquanaut.com .

"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 .

"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 Steamships of Stockholm", at:
    http://sics.se/~jussi/steamer.html .

"SS John W Brown" (East Coast Liberty Ship), at:                *NEW*
    http://www.mma.mass.edu/academic/faculty/jmcgourt/pls/pls.html .

"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/

"Wooden Boat" magazine now has a web site, at:
    http://www.woodenboat.com .



        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 (Italian)
  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." (17 July, 1994) at:
    http://www.cnam.fr/Images/Armada/ .

"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 .

"Battleship Cove", (Fall River, Mass.), at:
    http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/jack/mamie.html .

"Bluenose II Preservation Trust", at:
    http://fox.nstn.ca:80/~bluenos2/ .

"The Continental Sloop Providence Unofficial Home Page", at:
    http://shakti.trincoll.edu:80/~jconstan/providence.html .

"A History of Ships Named Enterprise", at:
    http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~djc/startrek/SNE.html .

"The Marco Polo reconstruction project" at:
    http://www.cygnus.nb.ca/epcom/marcopolo/project.html .

"Sail Training Association (STA)" (Southampton and Salisbury, England)
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 .

"Pandora" (the one associated with the HMS Bounty) is at:
     http://wavefront.wavefront.com/~pjlareau/pandora.html .

"48^ North - The Northern Sailing Magazine", 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, in
Finnish), 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/del/ .

"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 .



 Maritime Museums and Research Projects (including Nautical Archaeology)
 =======================================================================

"The Channel Islands Marine Archaeology Resources (CMAR)", along with
their newsletter, Wreckscatter. at:
    http://weber.u.washington.edu/~nailgun/cmar .

"Combined Caesarea Expeditions Underwater Excavations", at:
    http://www.carleton.ca/~ereinhar/CaesareaHome.html .

"Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic", Lunenburg, NS, Canada.  At:
    http://www.ednet.ns.ca./educ/museum/fma.html .

The FSU Underwater Archaeology program; at:
    http://www.dos.state.fl.us/sos/divisions/historical_resources/hist.html .

"Historical Diving Society"; at:                (mailto:HDSUSA@AOL.COM)
    http://diveweb.com/hds/hds.htm .

"Kelsey Museum Educational and Outreach Programs" (University of
Michigan; Archaeology), at:
    http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/Kelsey/Outreach.html .

"La Salle Shipwreck Project WWW site" (the wreck of the French  *NEW*
explorer La Salle's ship Belle) at:
    http://www.thc.state.tx.us/belle/index.htm .

"The Life-Saving Museum Scrapbook", at:
    http://www.infi.net/~cwt/life-sav.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.infi.net/mariner .

"Maritime Museum of the Atlantic", Halifax, NS, Canada.  At:
    http://www.ednet.ns.ca./educ/museum/mma.html

"The Maritime Museum of Portugal", at:
    http://www.madinfo.pt/museumar/welcomei.htm .

"Mystic Seaport", at:
    http://www.mystic.org/ .

"National Maritime Museum" (Greenwich, England), at:
    http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/maritime/maritime.mnu.html .

"North Carolina Maritime Museum", at:
    http://www.agr.state.nc.us/maritime/index.htm .

Northern Maritime Research has          (mailto:ad514@ccn.cs.dal.ca)
the "Northern Shipwreck Database" (50,000+ record wreck database), at:
    http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/~ad514/Profile.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:maryrose@cix.compulink.co.uk .

"Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University and the
Institute of Nautical Archaeology", at:         mailto:nautical@tamu.edu
    http://nautarch.tamu.edu .  Also publishes "INA Quarterly".

"The American Tallship "HMS" Rose"  The Rose's history, construction,
rigging and history, as well as a photo gallery, at:
    http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~jconstan/hmsrose/home.html .

"Set Sail 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 .

"Great Lakes Visual/Research, Inc." (GLV/R), a consulting firm in
maritime history and archaeology currently located in Lansing,
Michigan, has opened its web site for visitation, review, and comment.
The GLV/R web page features images from the underwater archaeological
excavation of the Great Lakes scow schooner ROCKAWAY at South Haven,
Michigan.  At:
    http://www.sojourn.com/~azhran/web/index.html .

"Maine Maritime Museum". at:
    http://www.bathmaine.com/ .

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 .

"Nordic underwater archaeology:, at:
    http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uw-arch.htm .

"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 .

The Pan-American Institute for Marine Archaeology is at:
    http://www.wbm.ca/users/nfisher/ .

"Underwater Shipwreck State Parks and Historic Sites", at:
    http://www.indiana.edu:80/~scuba/project.html

"Statens Sjohistoriska Musett", Stockholm. The National Maritime Museum
of Sweden.  At:
    http://www.telemuseum.se/museer/SSHM/Home.HTML .

"Three Facets of 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 Floating Dock Bermuda - Underwater Archaeology Project", at:
    http://www.brown.edu/Research/Underwater_Archaeology/bfd/ .

"Velkommen til Nationalmuseet", The National Museum of Denmark, at:
    http://WWW.NATMUS.MIN.DK/ .
  ...You can select the "Newsletter from Roskilde" (the Museum
  Newsletter from Denmark) by selecting the link "Publikationer pe
  nettet". You can also select "English Version".

There is a picture of what may be a removable Norman boat head from
the marsh at the Norman Invasion site at Hastings.  At:
    http://www.cablenet.net/pages/book/corresp/heads2.htm .

"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 .



        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 .

"Research Ship Information and Cruise Schedules" at:
    http://diu.cms.udel.edu/ships/ship_menu.html .

"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 .



        Government / Military
        =====================

"Allied Command Atlantic" at:
    http://www.saclant.nato.int .

"American Merchant Marine Academy: has a web site at:
    http://www.usmma.edu .

"U.S. Coast Guard", at:
    http://www.dot.gov/dotinfo/uscg/ .

"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 .

"Imperial Japanese Navy" web page at:                           *NEW*
    http://www.skypoint.com/members/jbp/kaigun.htm .

"MIL-HIST" (Military History), at:
    http://www.olcommerce.com/cadre/milhist/index.html .

"National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)", at:
    http://kingfish.ssp.nmfs.gov/ .

"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), at:
    http://www.noaa.gov ; and:
"Fleet Replacement and Modernization" at:
    http://www.noaa.gov/fleet.html .  This "Fleet Replacement and
  Modernization" reference is out of date and should be deleted shortly.
A much better reference and title would be "Ships of the NOAA Fleet" at:
    http://www.noaa.gov/nchome/fleet.html ,
or "the NOAA office that manages the Fleet", at:
    http://www.noaa.gov/nchome .
A new site is "The MONITOR National Marine Sanctuary", at:      *NEW*
    http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/nmsp/nmsmonitor.html , or, directly
on their home page at:
    http://www.cnu.edu/~monitor .

"Naval Historical Center"; contains a LOT of info about where to get
info on ships and naval history from the American Revolution to present,
FAQs, Publication Information, other websites, and commercial resources
for Naval Research; at:
    http://www.history.navy.mil .

"Hydromechanics Directorate", Carderock Division. Formerly the David
Taylor Model Basin.  At:
    http://www50.dt.navy.mil .

"Navy Pages" maintained by Andrew Toppan;       (mailto:elmer@wpi.edu)
(includes weekly photo feature on various topics) at:
    http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy.html .

"Welcome to NavyOnLine" at:
    http://www.ncts.navy.mil . Also at:
    http://www.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 .

"Operation Deadlight", the name assigned the operation which resulted
in the scuttling of over 100 German U-boats by the Royal Navy; at:
    http://rvik.ismennt.is/~gummihe/Uboats/dlight.htm .

"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 .

"State of the Russian Navy", at:
    http://webcom.com/~amraam/rnav.html .

"Ron Martini's Navy Submarine Base" at:
    http://wave.sheridan.wy.us/~rontini/ronpage.html .

"NAVAL SEA CADETS' WWW site", at:
    http://www.tucson.com/nscc

"Royal Navy Careers main index", at:
    http://www.open.gov.uk/navy/rnhm.htm .

"United States Naval Academy" at Annapolis, MD, is on-line at:
    http://www.nadn.navy.mil/
  (check out the Preble Museum at:
    http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Museum ,
  and the Henry Huddleston Rogers ship model collection, at:
    http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Museum/gallery.html ).

"Welcome Aboard", at:
    http://www.eas.pdx.edu/~jgriffin/navy.htm .


