Compiled
- U. S. Great Lakes Vessel Enrolments to 1860 A database of almost 6000 American vessel enrolments from American Great Lakes ports between 1816 and 1860. It includes all the surviving steam enrolments for this period that were legible on the microfilm. The sail enrolments include Cleveland and Detroit to 1860 and Buffalo to 1840.
- Great Lakes Vessel Renamings, Compiled by William R. McNeil
- Great Lakes Vessel Extracts, Compiled by William R. McNeil and Jack Messmer
- List of Vessels Employed on British Naval Service on the Great Lakes, 1755-1875, Compiled by Ken R. Macpherson
Historical
1837: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 13 Jan. 1837.1849: [Buffalo City Directory] 14 pages from the back of the directory.
1854: Register of British Shipping, Inland Waters, Toronto: Geo. E. Thomas & Co., Printers, 16 King Street East., 1854. The oldest surviving published ship insurance classification list for the Great Lakes.
1855: The Democracy, (Buffalo), 28 February 1855. The Democracy , a Buffalo N.Y. newspaper printed the articles "Tonnage On the Lakes," on the above date, however, the "Casualty List" was not included, but was published as an EXTRA sheet with the Feb 28, 1855 date, and was presumably sold separately. The newspaper ran from mid-1854 to mid-1855.
1856: Globe, (Toronto), 1856.
1857: Globe, (Toronto), 26 May. 1857.
1864: Thomas, Robert, Register of the Ships of The lakes and River St. Lawrence, (Buffalo: Wheeler, Matthews & Warren, 1864).
1866: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register, Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co., 1866. Canadian ship classification list.
1869: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register, Toronto: W. C. Chewett & Co., 1869. Canadian ship classification list.
1871: 1871. Classification of Lake Vessels and Barges: Adopted by a Board of Marine Inspectors, April 1, 1871, (Buffalo: Warren, Johnson & Co. 1871).
1873: Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters, Lake Vessel Register: (Private Property of the Association) Designed Exclusively for the use of its Members and their Agents in Effecting Assurance, Toronto: Copp, Clark & Co., 1873. Canadian ship classification list
1884: Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes: Comprising A Complete List of All Vessels Navigating the Lakes, Arranged Alphabetically..., Detroit, Mich. : R. L. Polk & Co., 1884.
1890: Inland Lloyds, 1890. Vessel Classification of the Inland Lloyd's, Canadian Hulls, Toronto: Budget Printing and Publishing Company, 1890.
1897: Blue Book of American Shipping, Cleveland, OH: Marine Review, 1897. The 1897 edition of a business directory for the American merchant marine with a particular emphasis on the Great Lakes.
1903: Blue Book of American Shipping: Marine and Naval Directory of the United States, 1903, Cleveland, OH: Marine Review Publishing Co., 1903.
1916: Green, Fred W., Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, Cleveland, 1916.
1963: Macpherson, Ken R., Ontario History, vol. LV (1963): 173-79.
General Lists:
- Canadian Ship Registers (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Canada Steamship Lines (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- the New Mills List (Linked) from Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Ship Information Database (Canadian) (Linked) hosted by CHIN
- Great Lakes vessel files Linked from the catalogue of the Great Lakes Marine Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library (includes the Runge Collection)
- Father Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection Database from University of Detroit Mercy Libraries