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The Task
The National Maritime Museum (NMM),
Greenwich holds around 20,000 records on British warships from circa 1500 to
1950, detailing amongst other things, who the
captain was, where the ships went and the vessels they encountered. The
information is in no way complete and they would like to enlist the help of
knowledgeable persons, including volunteers who already work with the NMM, to
help them enrich the database and make it available on the Internet.
Lucinda Donnachie, Digital Content
Coordinator, NMM is responsible for the project; Gordon Smith of Naval-History.Net
is advising and carrying out some of the initial work.
Three Step Approach
Bearing in mind how many ships have served
in the Royal Navy in its long history, and the amount of information required to
list their main characteristics as well as their careers, if only in brief, it
is a huge undertaking. Just getting off the ground in an efficient and
coordinated way will take time.
To enable the NMM to offer some ship
history information without an unacceptable delay, three steps are envisaged,
the first two of which are available in outline now:
(1)
INTRODUCTION TO
ROYAL NAVY HISTORY - Brief Bibliography and supporting Web Sites
B ooks
and web-sites to help people make a start in finding out about the Royal Navy throughout its history,
including
ships and events.
(2) SHIP INFORMATION ON THE WEB
- Links to Existing Histories.
You are invited to recommend ship history links to add to
the present list by
sending them
to Naval-History.Net
(3) NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM SHIP
HISTORIES.
Plans for the main stage are being developed and will be
added here as they progress. We hope to arrange a meeting at the National
Maritime Museum later in the year.
In the meantime you can contact the NMM by
emailing Ship@nmm.ac.uk
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