Here are some links to my favourite web sites. These are mostly personal web pages of ship enthusiasts and/or photographers but I have also included useful and interesting sites, such as society and AIS pages. Where possible, I have added the name of the site owner in brackets after their link.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any content whatsover of external websites. As far as I know, all the sites I’ve listed are benign, safe and free of anything harmful or unpleasant, but like everything else on the net, it pays to be careful before clicking and to always have up-to-date firewall, anti-virus and anti-malware software running. It is also a good idea to block pop-ups on all sites, except trusted sites (like this one!).
Personal home pages
Belgium:
Scheepvaartwest (Werner Goes)
Ship Hunters (Andy Gerard and Frédéric Van Seghbroeck)
Ships in the Spotlight (M. Elias)
Stevo.be (Steven Oppeel)
France:
Phillippe-ships (Phillippe Lauga)
Germany:
Andreaskiel (Andreas Schroeder)
Container ships (Cornelia Klier)
Containership Info (Jan Svendsen and Jan Tiedemann)
Cruzship.de (Marco Schäfer)
Ferry Photos (Marko Stampehl)
Hamburg Port Images (Jan Tiedemann)
Nautic-Views (Max Müller and Jannik Hütt)
Nautik4ever (Michael Schindler)
N.O.K. Schiffsbilder (André and Wilfried Thiel)
N.O.K. Schiffsfotos (Karsten Exner)
Ocean Ships (Christian Costa)
Rosenkranz Ship Photos (Hans Rosenkranz)
Ships on River Elbe (Hans-Erich Wirsching)
Ship Photos (Max Müller)
Schiffe in Hamburg (Ingo Josten)
Schiffgiganten (Daniel Kretzmer and Patrick Martini)
Schiffsfotografie und Frachterreisen (Lutz Woitas)
Schiffsfotos (Jochen Laskowsky)
Schiffs-fotos.de (Martin Witte)
Ship-photos.de (Marion and Helge Barth)
Ship-photos.de (Maik Ebel)
Ship-World (Bernd Dahlmann)
Stuurman.de (Michael Harms)
Iceland:
Icelandic Ships (Capt. Hilmar Snorrason)
Italy:
MyShips (Stefano)
Japan:
Website of Ships (Tsuyoshi Ishiyama)
Netherlands:
Havenfotos (W. van Kooten and N. Franken)
Maritime Photos (Mark Prummel)
Martin's Homepage (Martin Goudriaan)
Portpictures (Danny)
Sea Ships (Rene Nicolaes)
Seaships (Dave van Spronsen)
Ships Off Terneuzen (Marcel van Luik. *Beware loud ship's horn on home page!)
Shipspotters (Huug Pieterse)
Spain:
Mar y Barcos/Sea and Ships
Turkey
Turkish Ships (Ilhan Kermen)
UK:
Bradda.com (Niall Kelly)
Dover Ferry Photos (Ray Goodfellow)
Liner Lovers (Patricia Dempsey)
Maritime Photographic (Gary Davies)
Mostly Ships (Jimmy Christie)
Quaysides (Patrick Hill)
Thames Shipping (Paul Mason)
Ship Foto (Chris Brooks)
Ships of the Mersey (Alan Faulkner)
Ship Photos (Edward Brian-Davis)
Ships Underway (David Gallichan)
Ship Paintings (Tony Westmore)
USA:
Beyond Ships (Richard H Wagner)
Forums
Shipspotting
Forum Schiff (German language)
Fotos de Barcos (In Spanish)
Societies
Lekko I.T.E.S.
Ocean Liner Society
Solent Maritime Society
Thames Ship Society
World Ship Society
WSS Isle of Wight Branch
WSS Port of New York Branch
WSS Southampton Branch
Port info
Southampton VTS
Information
Solent AIS
Vesseltracker
Live AIS from the Isle of Wight
Ship Scrapping List
Ships of the Past
Lusitania.net
RMS Lusitania info
Monsters of the Sea: The Great Ocean Liners
Titanic