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This collection of links is not meant to be comprehensive or anything other than interesting to me. I have used these and others to research information about ships found on stamps as well as general philatelic purposes. There are many other possible sites so if you find a site that you think would be a general benefit, let me know and I will consider adding it. To be considered for inclusion, a site must be somewhat general,not associated with one ship (some exceptions). Collections of links to museums, nautical or stamp topics are best. Also let me know if any of these links have stopped working.

Stamp Collecting

Navicula Our ship stamp collector counterparts in Germany
Philatelie Marine A site in both French and English with some good small exhibits on various ship stamp topics
Ships on Stamps Gallery A site with some nice images and stories
Ships on Stamps web site from Norway
Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web Look here first. A big collection of links to everything philatelic. Not always real current but worth a look.
Fabio's Stamp Resources is another collection of philatelic links. It is well organized and easy to use.
American Topical Association is the leading stamp topical organization in the world
American Philatelic Society is the largest, nonprofit society in the world for stamp collectors
Maritime Postmark Society Never heard of a "paquebot" cover? Go here to find out that and much more
Universal Ship Cancellation Society Ship covers of all types but especially naval covers
Lighthouse Stamp Society Where would ships be without lighthouses? On the rocks, so check out this lighthouse page
Fila-home Stamps is a general site about stamp collecting with a good all-around description of newer issues

Maritime Sites

These are only a few of the many maritime sites on the WWW. These are only meant to show the breadth of material available. Some of these have many links that will lead you elsewhere. I have made no attempt to classify these in any other than a general manner. To find more links, just select any of those below or use a search engine to look for tall ships, sailing ships, merchant marine, and so forth. To find maritime and nautical artwork is a little more work but well worth the time.


Captain's Maritime,Merchant Marine,Ships and Nautical Links
Nautical links of several types
Nautical and maritime history on Google
Nautical and maritime history on Yahoo
A guide to doing maritime history research on the Internet. You must see to believe
This site is a list of ships appearing in the index or table of contents of books. This is a great place to find a book that references a particular ship.

Maritime art Great art to illustrate your collection
National Maritime Historical Society

World's Lighthouses, Lightships Lifesaving Stations
The Maritime History Virtual Archives

Nautical Research Guild
Seaways Infonaut

U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Navy History

Books

These are only a VERY few of the many places to find reference information

Used and out-of-print books

Bookfinder is one of several places to look for used and out-of-print books of all types
ABE books is another place to look for out-of-print books
Alibris has a nicely organized site for rare, used and out-of-print book
Amazon is one of the original sites for books on the Web

General reference material

Reference Shelf An interesting collection of reference books
The Internet Public Library The place to start looking for thematic collections of links
Nautical fiction and non-fiction books and series including Hazard, O'Brian, Hornblower, McCargo and many others