ship´·scribe

One who writes about ships.

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Home of the "Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy"
and of "French Navy Ships, 1816-1859"
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Also: "Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921"
by Norman L. McKellar of Tamworth, Australia
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Contents

Click on a photograph or a link to enter the corresponding portion of the site.
Register of Ships of
the U.S. Navy:
Auxiliary Vessels

(A large digital reference work, now under construction and growing)


Norman L. McKellar

Steel Shipbuilding
under the U. S.
Shipping Board,
1917-1921

(A major shipslist from The Belgian Shiplover, with updates. Also includes wood and concrete shipbuilding.)


French Navy Ships,
1816-1859:
From Sail to Steam

(Data from the French naval archives)


Reference Tables on
U. S. Navy and
Merchant Ships

(Wartime shipbuilding and ship acquisition programs, peacetime ship movements)


This page is the entryway into the Shipscribe domain, owned and operated by Stephen S. Roberts.
Construction of this site was interrupted by the death of the author's wife, Sue Goetz Ross, on 27 March 2002.
The reference tables and the French Navy section were added in mid-2004 and intensive work on the auxiliary vessels register resumed in late 2005.
The article by Norman L. McKellar was added in 2007 with the kind permission of Mrs. Hazel McKellar.
You may contact the author of the site at:

This entire site, including all its pages, is copyright © Stephen S. Roberts, 2001-2008 or later as indicated.
The article by Norman L. McKellar is copyright © Hazel McKellar, 2007.
All photographs that originated from U.S. Government collections or that have U.S. Government file numbers are believed to be in the public domain.

Visits since 1 May 2006:

Ashley and Jane's Fighting Ships.

One of the author's two feline helpers.
Ashley, 13 June 1994 - 9 December 2006


Ashley and Sue Goetz Ross.

Sue Goetz Ross and Ashley.