Ship & Boat Related Sites
(This page was last updated on the 03/01/2024)
Details of Ships
www.eships.net - a search database for the World Shipping Register
www.world-ships.com - useful searchable database of ship ownership records
www.gov.uk - uk ship register for merchant ship and bareboat charter
www.vesseltracker.com - registered members get to search a database and see many useful ownership & location details about commercial vessels
www.imo.org - the International Maritime Organization ship and company searchable database
www.equasis.org - useful database but you must register with the site first
www.shipspotting.com - ship image archive, searchable by vessel name, IMO or MMSI
www.cpic-cipc.ca - a Canadian boat search site
www.cpic-cipc.ca - a Canadian boat engine search site
www.superyachts.com - searchable database of the 100 largest private yachts
www.moboxmarine.com - details of super yachts
www.crewlist.org.uk - useful database, mostly historic, with searchable details of ships and crews
www.theshippingdatabase.com - useful searchable shipping database, with some free details
Locations of Ships
www.vesselfinder.com - AIS vessel tracking web site, searchable by vessel name, IMO or MMSI
www.shipais.com - live information on ships around the British coast
www.marinetraffic.com - mapping site showing marine traffic around the world
www.icc-ccs.org - shows all the piracy & armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre since 2011
Location of Shipwrecks
www.wikipedia.org - list shipwrecks around the world, searchable by country
www.lloyds.com - Lloyds list of shipwrecks
www.ukdiving.co.uk - searchable map of shipwrecks around the coast of UK & Ireland
www.ukdiving.co.uk - list of over 3,000 shipwrecks around the coast of UK & Ireland
www.forgottenwrecks.org - searchable map of WWI shipwrecks around the English Channel & South Coast
www.infomar.ie - searchable map of shipwrecks around Ireland
www.arcgis.com - searchable map of shipwrecks around Ireland
Stolen Ships & Boats
www.stolenboats.org.uk - a database of stolen boats and engines in the UK
Container Tracking
www.track-trace.com - searchable container tracking database
www.maersk.com - searchable container tracking database
www.bic-code.org - searchable database of the international identification codes of container owners, called BIC Codes or ISO Alpha-codes
www.prefixlist.com - database of codes for the ISO Alpha-codes of containers
www.prefixlist.com - searchable database of container Digit Codes
www.checkdigit.info - Container check digit calculator
www.shipmentlink.com - searchable container tracking database
www.searates.com - searchable container tracking database
www.shipit.co.uk - searchable container tracking database
www.utopiax.org - searchable container tracking database
www.import.report - US import records, searchable by company name
www.imo.org - the International Maritime Organization public cargo searchable database, which you need to be registered with to access