Research Guides: HIST 111: Uncharted Waters: The History of Society and the Sea: Shipwrecks

Finding Shipwrecks

Life at Sea This link opens in a new window
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Focus on the individual experiences and personal narratives of seafarers. From journals and memoirs to ships’ logs and court records, the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers and pirates can be explored.
AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
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Primary sources from the 15th-21st centuries, including the social sciences, humanities, global history, popular culture, history of media, gender and sexuality, trade history, borders and migrations, and war and conflict.

Check out the Shipwrecks and Disasters guide, which will give you hints on how to search the AM Explorer - Life at Sea database
In the database AM Explorer - Age of Exploration, try looking in the Search Directories for the term "shipwrecks"
View the 21 volumes of the Private illustrated Journals of Dr E H Cree, from his time as a ship doctor sailing through the Indian and Pacific Ocean in the mid-19th century. He supplemented his (mostly) typewritten journal entries with his own watercolor illustrations.

Infomar Shipwrecks Viewer
A collection of material about shipwrecks in Ireland, including maps, 3D Sketchfab renderings, Storymaps, a gallery of images, publications, data, and more.
Sea History - National Maritime Historical Society
Includes their publications, like Sea History Magazine, and links to relevant digitized archival collections around the internet.

HIST 111 - relevant Special Collections books
A list of some books in Carleton's Special Collections that could be relevant to HIST 111.