Ships
The Ships table contains over 45,000 records of U.S. ships and other vessels, including Navy, Coast Guard and Army ships, as well as a number of other U.S. vessels that have participated in wars. This represents about 37,000 different vessels. Some are listed two or more times because they were identified by more than one name and/or type and/or hull number. Many are listed under more than one, if not all, of the identifications under which they were known during their active period with US forces. Separate entires for the same vessel are cross-referenced to each other. The table is mostly Navy vessels, but also includes several thousand Army vessels, many of which are small and seldom listed in other sources, and a great many commercial vessels, including Liberty ships and Victory ships used during World War II.
Ships are not separately listed under names used before and after US Navy, Coast Guard and Army service (except some commercial vessels converted to Naval service during WW II), but other names of those ships are usually shown in the History and Notes field of the records.
For download purposes, the Ships table is divided into five tables, alphabetically.
PART ONE. (Updated October 30 2004) The first part of the Ships table contains ships with names starting with A through F. THIS FILE IS IN PARADOX 5.0 FORMAT AND SHOULD BE IMPORTABLE TO ANY RECENT VERSION OF MICROSOFT ACCESS. This file, named ships-1.zip, is 572 kilobytes, and expands when decompressed into two files containing 6,008 records and totaling about 2.3 megs. To download this file, Click Here.
PART TWO. (Updated September 5 2005) The second part of the Ships table contains ships with names starting with G through O. THIS FILE IS IN MICROSOFT ACCESS FORMAT. This file, named ships-2.zip, is 769 kilobytes, and expands when decompressed into two files containing 6,311 records and totaling about 2.52 megs. To download this file, Click Here.
PART THREE. (Updated September 1 2007) The third part of the Ships table contains ships with names starting with P through Z. THIS FILE IS IN MICROSOFT ACCESS FORMAT. This file, named ships-3.zip, is 722 kb, and expands when decompressed into two files containing 6,200 records and totaling about 2.52 megs. To download this file, Click Here.
PART FOUR. (Updated November 6, 2006) The fourth part of the Ships table contains ships and vessels with no name, only a hull number identification, of types AB through LSU. THIS FILE IS MICROSOFT ACCESS FORMAT. This File, named ships-4.zip, is 262 kilobytes, and expands when decompressed into two files containing 14,892 records and totaling about 4.38 megs. To download this file, Click Here.
PART FIVE. (Updated March 4 2007) The fifth part of the Ships table contains ships and vessels with no name, only a hull number identification, of types LT through the end of the file. Included, for example, are the World War II PT boats and the Army's LT and MT boats and thousands of other small craft THIS FILE IS IN MICROSOFT ACCESS FORMAT. This File, named ships-5.zip, is 271 kilobytes, and expands when decompressed into two files containing 11,620 records and totaling 3.514 megs. To download this file, Click Here
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