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Ship & Boat Related Sites
(This page was last updated on the 31/05/2025)
Details of Ships
world-ships.com - useful searchable database of ship ownership records
vesseltracker.com - registered members get to search a database and see many useful ownership & location details about commercial vessels
imo.org - the International Maritime Organization ship and company searchable database
gov.uk - uk ship register for merchant ship and bareboat charter
charterboats-uk.co.uk - useful searchable database of boats which can be chartered around the British Isles
equasis.org - useful database but you must register with the site first
shipspotting.com - ship image archive, searchable by vessel name, IMO or MMSI
cpic-cipc.ca - a Canadian boat search site
cpic-cipc.ca - a Canadian boat engine search site
apcis.tmou.org - searchable database of the ships using Asian / Pacific ports
superyachts.com - searchable database of the 100 largest private yachts
moboxmarine.com - details of super yachts
crewlist.org.uk - useful database, mostly historic, with searchable details of ships and crews
theshippingdatabase.com - useful searchable shipping database, with some free details
iuu-vessels.org - useful searchable shipping database
Locations of Ships
vesselfinder.com - AIS vessel tracking web site, searchable by vessel name, IMO or MMSI
shipais.uk - live information on ships around the British coast
marinetraffic.com - mapping site showing marine traffic around the world
marinevesseltraffic.com - mapping site allowing choice of tracking container ships, cruise ships, super yachts and military vessels
globalfishingwatch.org - mapping site which visualizes the activity of fishing vessels around the world
icc-ccs.org - shows all the piracy & armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre since 2011
Location of Shipwrecks
wikipedia.org - list shipwrecks around the world, searchable by country
lloyds.com - Lloyds list of shipwrecks
ukdiving.co.uk - list of over 3,000 shipwrecks around the coast of UK & Ireland
forgottenwrecks.org - searchable map of WWI shipwrecks around the English Channel & South Coast
infomar.ie - searchable map of shipwrecks around Ireland
arcgis.com - searchable map of shipwrecks around Ireland
Stolen Ships & Boats
stolenboats.info - a database of stolen vessels, engines & trailers
Container Tracking
track-trace.com - searchable container tracking database
maersk.com - searchable container tracking database
bic-code.org - searchable database of the international identification codes of container owners, called BIC Codes or ISO Alpha-codes
prefixlist.com - database of codes for the ISO Alpha-codes of containers
prefixlist.com - searchable database of container Digit Codes
checkdigit.info - Container check digit calculator
shipmentlink.com - searchable container tracking database
searates.com - searchable container tracking database
shipit.co.uk - searchable container tracking database
utopiax.org - searchable container tracking database
e-tracking.net - searchable container tracking database
imo.org - the International Maritime Organization public cargo searchable database, which you need to be registered with to access