Nordic countries:
The cold Baltic Sea has things in common with Arctica, Antarctica, the North American Great Lakes and some sweetwater lakes : There is no shipworm, wood is preserved for centuries and it's possible to find very well preserved wrecks.
- Swedish Maritime Museum's wreck register in Stockholm. The museum responsible for the national wreck register, which is slowly being transferred to a computer database. Thanks to the Swedish law of public information, all information is open to the public. Visiting hours: Tuesday-Friday 1-3 PM.
- Maritime Museum of Finland, Helsinki. National wreck register.
- Norwegian Maritime Museum, Oslo, Norway. The museum hosts the wreck register for Norway together with four regional museums.
- Kystverket , Norway. Hosts a national wreck register.
- Institute of Maritime Archaeology, Roskilde, Denmark. National wreck register, for research and not public.
- Foteviken Maritime Centre, has a wreck database for South Sweden, partially on line.
- Wrecks south of Nynäshamn. Swedish wreck list for an area south of Stockholm.
- Naval Wrecks of Karlskrona, Sweden
- Wreckdiving in Norway
- The St George Shipwreck Museum,
Denmark, has an extensive wreck list
- UV-guide, Denmark. Based on the "Dykinfo" database, at least 3000 wrecks, compiled by scuba divers. The database can be downloaded. Only in Danish.
British Isles:
- Ice Boats of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Albert Fischer
- Tamar Hulks Survey (draft), University of Plymouth
- UK Diving wreck database, large and well made
wreck database
- Guide to Historic Wreck Sites
- Submerged Productions, Peter Mitchell
- NE Scotland Wrecksites, Roger Mathison
- National Register of Historic Vessels
- "The Ramparts", Wales
Continental Europe & Europe in general:
- L'Archéologie sous les mers, French
Ministry of Culture. Wreck database and general archives.
- Navis I. (requires Java) EU financed
database of ancient ship archaeology.
- SUB-REC, investigating with ROV, describing wrecks in Lac
Léman / Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Among the finds are spectacular railway cars from 1859 on 300 m
depth. Among other reports are "Rhône", "Aigle II / Simplon", and a 19th century wooden "brick".
- Wreck diving database Northsee, Jan Lettens, Belgium
- Wrakkensite, Netherlands. Old page.
- Expedition Scyllias, France
- France: A printed list of shipwrecks off the French coasts can be ordered from Patrick Lizé. He can be contacted at patricklize@hotmail.com
North & South America:
- Web Dive Log, wrecks in Canada
- Northern Shipwreck Database, Northern Maritime Research, Canada. The Northern Shipwrecks Database project is a searchable CD database of more than 100,000 North American shipwrecks, that can be ordered.
- Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain, USA
- Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserves, USA
- Located sunken submarines in US waters
- Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks
, USA
- Minnesota's Lake Superior Shipwrecks, Minnesota Historical Society
- The Graveyard of the Atlantic, US east coast
- Florida's Underwater Archaeological Preserves
- Shipwrecks off Alaska's Coast
- California Shipwrecks
- California Wreck Divers
- naufragios.com, Brazil
- Brasil mergulho
Australia:
- Australian National Shipwreck Database (sometimes bad connection)
- Shipwrecks of Tasmania, Australia
- Ships' Graveyards of South Australia
- Maritime Heritage online, New South Wales
Worldwide specific locations:
- Archaeogate, Italy. Excellent listing of many
Mediterranean wrecks. Click on "Relitti".
- Abysso, Italy. Listing 500 wrecks of the Mediterranean
Worldwide general:
- Merchant Fleets, James Olsson, listing ca 7000 wrecks
listed online.
- Lloyd's List of Shipwrecks, Lloyd's Register
- U-Boat Net, located WWII U-boats suitable for scuba diving
- Yahoo Shipwrecks
- Harald Bolten's Global Wreck Database. At least 46000 wrecks are in the database, but not online.
- Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Disasters, Robert R Frump
- Maritime Disasters of World War II, George Duncan
- Katastrofy na morzach, Łukasz Ossoliński, Poland
You can find more wrecks in the Nordic wrecklist and the
worldwide wrecklist. For national wreck archives, see
European authorities and worldwide
authorities.
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