0 General Sources (Newspapers, etc)               vari.                                                
 1 Dict. of American Naval Fighting Ships   1959+  USNI                                                 
 2 US Coast Guard History Program           ?      (various)  Online in 2000s, on paper before?         
 4 Jane's Fighting Ships                    1919   (Jane's)   1990 Reprint                              
 5 Jane's Fighting Ships                    1944/5 (Jane's)   1971 Reprint                              
 6 Jane's Warships of the World             1987/8 (Jane's)                                             
 7 Jane's Warships of the World             1995/6 (Jane's)                                             
 9 Jane's Ship Database (online)            2000+? (Jane's)                                             
11 History of the American Sailing Navy     1949   Chapelle                                             
12 The Ships & Aircraft of the US Fleet     1939+  Fahey      1939, 1941, 1944 (1945 stolen)            
13 The Ships & Aircraft of the US Fleet     1980   Polmar                                               
15 The Fleet Submarine in the US Navy       1979   Alden                                                
30 Under Two Flags: the Navy in the C/W     1990   Fowler                                               
34 Ironclads and Paddlers                   1993   Marshall   Collection of drawings and paintings      
37 The Republic's Private Navy              1977   Garitee    Privateers, etc. of Baltimore
38 PH 3&2, Mod 1                                   (US Navy)  many photos of old ships           
39 The Navy in the Civil War                                  Vol 7 in Conf. Military History    
41 The Peloponnesian War                           Thucydides Athenian warrior, statesman, historian
42 Warships of Antiquity                           Nelson     Basic primer vice reference work
43 History of Naval Tactics                                                                            
44 History of War at Sea                           Pemsel                                               
45 The Age of Drake                         1938   Williamson                                           
46 The Floating Republic                    1935   Dobree +   1797 fleet mutiny at Nore and Spithead    
47 Pirates & Privateers of the Americas     1994   Marley                                               
70 Warships of the IJN, 1869-1945           1977   USNI                                                 
71 German Warships of WW2                   1966   Taylor                                               
72 JANAC Report                             1947?  JANAC      Joint Army-Navy committee on IJN records
80 The Ships of the US Merchant Fleet       1965   Culver                                               
81 Maritime Herald (website)                vari.             www.maritimeherald.com                    
98 Verbal sources                           vari.  various    Mattias Noch, Compuserve, Internet        
99 Fiction (Ship did not exist in history)  vari.  various    Famous ships from literature