Ships History Branch

Publications

The Ships History Branch researches and writes the multivolume Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, available in many libraries in the United States and abroad. This and other Naval Historical Center publications are available for purchase from the Government Printing Office.

A history of USS Barry.

Reference Publications

Collected documents from the Navy's wars, from the Revolution through the Civil War, have been, or are being, published and are a valuable source for information on the war service of Navy ships. Books describing and discussing naval ship types and their evolution have appeared in the United States and abroad; many of these have been issued by the Naval Institute Press. All of these works can be searched out through libraries and obtained with the help of union catalogs and the interlibrary loan system.

Last Update: 1 October 96