Maritime Records

• Navy/Maritime Records at the National Archives in Washington, DC

• French Spoliation Claims, an article in Prologue.

• Great Lakes Crew Lists
   
• Great Lakes Vessel Enrollments Database, 1815-1915: a project of the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society (Copies of the enrollments may be obtained from NARA.)
   
• Lighthouses: Basic Search Path for Records
   
• Maritime Accidents and Casualties (Wreck Reports), in the National Archives at Chicago
   
• Maritime Records in the National Archives at Boston
   
• Merchant Marine Shipping Articles
   
• Merchant Vessel Documentation
   
• Records About Impressed Seamen, 1793-1814
   
• Seamen's Protection Certificates, an article in Prologue.
   
• Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807-1860
   
• Vessel Documents (describes available microfilm publications)
   
• Records Relating to Vessel Documentation in the National Archives at Chicago