Registers and directories
National Registers
Registers produced by these classification societies or
government bodies may give details of vessels owned in the country
they cover, but do not appear in Lloyd`s Register of
Ships. These include small vessels and those only used in
harbours or inland waterways. Note that some registers, including
Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd and
the Hellenic Register of Shipping list many ships
owned or operated outside the countries in which they are
based. - American Bureau of Shipping [address]
- Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia (based in Indonesia)
- Bulgarian Register of Shipping
- Bureau Veritas [address ] (based in
France)
- China Classification Society (based in China - mainland)
- China Corporation Register of Shipping (based in China -
Taiwan)
- Det Norske Veritas [ address] (based
in Norway)
- Germanischer Lloyd [ address] (based
in Germany)
- Hellenic Register of Shipping (based in Greece)
- Hrvatski Registar Brodova d.o.o. (based in Croatia)
- Indian Register of Shipping
- Joson Classification Society (based in North Korea)
- Korean Register of Shipping (based in South Korea)
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai [address]
(based in Japan)
- Polski Rejstr Statkow (based in Poland)
- Registro Italiana Navale (based in Italy)
- Romanian Register of Shipping
- Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Of these, the Repertoire General of Bureau Veritas
is particularly significant. Published from 1870 to 1939 it
provided a list of all vessels Bureau Veritas could locate
throughout the world. The first edition included well over 60,000
sail and steam vessels. Although less detailed, early editions gave
far wider coverage than Lloyd`s Register of Ships,
which did not catch up until 1886 when it issued its Universal Register . Unfortunately, there is no library in the UK known to have a
substantial collection of such registers, although the World Ship
Society [address] has a
number and embassy libraries may have copies. Those linked above
are produced by classification societies which have offices in the
UK; click on these for contact details.
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