Below you will also find direct links to some registries, which include more detailed ship data.
by Andreas Schröder, Kiel, Germany
An interesting site focused on Kiel-Canal and Kiel, but also on the Elbe area and Rotterdam , offering different views of each ship and most important technical data. In the area 'Links' you will find extensive information belonging to different items around ships.
by Uwe Jakob and Dirk Pfaff, Bodenwerder, Germany
An interesting site in German language, which is focused only on ships built at the Arminius Shipyard, Bodenwerder, Germany. In addition to the yard history and it's reference list, this site also offers several photos, technical data and the history for each ship.
by Detlef Will, Germany
A beautiful website (Forum) in German language, which is focused on all kinds of inland navigation vessels. Additional to current ships this website also offers historic ones. Partially technical ship data is given.
by Marion & Helge Barth, Bremerhaven, Germany
This is a site showing just these ships, classicists suggest to be a pain for each photographer with none conformity to real ships. But, if you take a look more accurately, they will be more interesting. Ships with meaningful names such as "Oriental Beauty", "Morning Calm", or "Crystal Ray" can't be ugly or negligible.
by Christopher Dzaack, Bad Segeberg, Germany
An interesting German site for friends of the most luxurious ferry of the world at date of completion, the "Color Fantasy", including many photos and much information.
"Welcome at the Container Ship Register. At this website you can find lots of technical information of (almost) all containerships of the world. Almost all information on this site has been found somewhere on the World Wide Web, but unfortunately not everything can be found on the internet. A small amount of ships (smaller than 500 teu) are not (yet) online. I am working on this!
The purpose of this site is to give an overview of all containerships on the world. With a lot of ships which sail in services of Maersk Line, CMA-CGM, Evergreen, Senator, Hyundai, Hanjin, Norasia, Hapag Lloyd, NYK, MOL, MSC and Yang Ming, the information about the service is also available, all of them with a graphical overview. Also a section with all planned newbuildings is available. The information inside this section is far from complete, but it gives an idea of newbuildings to be expected. Maybe some orders are double in the list."
Vereniging 'De Binnenvaart', the Netherlands
A very recommendable and extensive Dutch website with focus on all kinds of inland navigation vessels, which flew or fly the dutch flag, including photos, history and the technical data. The link directly offers a search screen, wherein you're able to search for the ship name or the ENI.
A very recommendable Dutch website in English language with focus on all kinds of dredgers in Europe, including photos, technical data and also news, articles and links about dredging and dredgers.
by Christian Hinkelmann, Hamburg, Germany
A very interesting and informative website in German language especially for friends of the HADAG ferries, then and now.
by Albin Träger, Lehe/Ems, Germany
A beautiful website in German language with focus on inland navigation vessels which also offers a guest book.
An excellent and extensive website in Swedish language, which offers not only several photos per ship but also the complete technical data and the history of each vessel - highly recommendable -.
An interesting website in German language with focus on fishing vessels from different european countries. Beside ship photos the visitor will also find the related technical data and the ship history.
A very interesting German website with focus on smaller inland ferries in Europe, inclusive photos, technical data and history of each vessel. Those information belonging to German inland ferries are only available after registration and login.
originally created by Cai Rönnau, Sande, Germany
A very interesting and extensive website in German language with focus on ferries and passenger ships from yesterday and today. Beside the ship photos the visitor will also find the related technical data and the ship history. Additionally a forum is also offered - very recommendable but currently closed -.
originally created by Henk Perdok, Delfzijl, the Netherlands
An interesting website in Dutch language with focus on fishing cutters from different countries of Northern Europe. Beside several ship photos the visitor will also find the related technical data and the ship history.
by Michael Schindler, Hamburg, Germany
A very interesting website in English language, including a collection of high quality ship photos of nearly all types of ships.
by André & Wilfried Thiel, Germany
Interesting and extensive German website with focus on the Kiel-Canal, including all kinds of ship types and detailed related technical data.
by Karsten Exner, Schönkirchen, Germany
Very interesting and extensive German website with focus on the Kiel-Canal, including all kinds of ship types and detailed related technical data.
by Christian Costa, Bremen, Germany
Beautiful website in English language, including high quality photos and the most important technical ship data. In company with Martin Witte Christian additionally runs the German forum "www.forum-schiff.de".
by Hans Rosenkranz, Billigheim, Germany
An excellent shipphoto gallery especially with chinese ships, created by a former seaman.
by Ingo Josten (webmaster), Hamburg, Germany
Beautiful website in German language with focus on cruise liners and ferries. For each ship this site offers several photos, the complete technical data and ships's history. Additional you will find a guestbook, a link list and a schedule of cruise liner arrivals (seperate link below).
a different website which is not only focused on ship photography but also on Motocross photography (only in German language).
by Helmut Dost, Schwanewede, Germany
A very interesting project: ships of German shipyards. Also in English language.
Interesting photo website with focus on cruise liners, passenger ferries, and all kinds of RORO-ships, including car ferries and car carriers. This website includes no or only the most important technical data.
by Florian Horch, Cuxhaven, Germany
Interesting special German website about German tugs. Unfortunately, this site has not been maintained since 2008.
Beautiful website in English language, including high quality photos and the technical data.
An interesting and beautiful website in German language with focus on Hamburg Harbour, which offers attractive photos in high quality, also from unusual perspectives.
by Reinhard Hannemann, Stutensee / Karlsruhe, Germany
an interesting database, which offers not only high quality photos of different photographers, but also the technical data and the history of each included ship. This database has to be downloaded and installed first according to the instruction.
If the homepage starts in German language, will you please use the link "...more than a Ship-Database" or the "Union Jack" to get to the English part of the homepage.
Another gallery of ship-photos, presently focused on the Kiel-Canal.
Welcome to Ship-photo.de, the combined websites of Marion & Helge Barth.
by Maik Ebel, Sprenge and Thomas Wägener, Hamburg, Germany
Beautiful website in English language, which offers high quality photos from different European areas, divided into 2 main galleries: seegoing vessels and inland navigation vessels. Only the most important technical ship data is given on this website. The visitor will also find beautiful impressions and a guestbook.
by Alan Faulkner, England
A very nice website from England with focus on the Mersey area at the western coast (including Manchester Ship Canal, Porthmouth etc.). Beside many high quality ship photos of impressive character this site offers a guestbook and a large and well sorted link list.
by M., P. & Ph. van Luik (webmaster), Terneuzen, the Netherlands
A nice website from the Netherlands with focus on Terneuzen / Netherlands (Ghent-Terneuzen-Canal / River Scheldt). Beside the ship photos of different photographers this site offers a guestbook and a very large and well sorted link list, which differentiates between photographers and companies.
inland navigation vessels
by Michael Harms, Papenburg, Germany
Interesting and extensive 2-part website in German language, which offers not only ship photos and impressions but also the technical data. In addition, a list of ships on which Michael worked, an extensive link list, and a guestbook are available.
seagoing ships
by Michael Harms, Papenburg, Germany
Interesting and extensive 2-part website in German language, which offers not only ship photos and impressions but also the technical data. In addition, a list of flags of shipping companies, an extensive link list, and a guestbook are available.
An interesting website of the foundation "Swiss-Ships" with focus on all kind of vessels and ships flying the Swiss flag. Plaese use the "Union Jack" to get access to the English language part.
Another interesting website with focus on old and current sailing ships, including detailed technical data and portraits about ship's history. You will often find more than one photo for each ship. Also in English language. Additionally this website offers a very extensive and interesting link list.
by Ilhan Yylmaz Kermen, Istanbul, Turkey
A website in English language which is only focused on ships flying the Turkish flag, whereas the large group of Istanbul ferries is separated from the merchant ships. Besides the ship photos this site offers the most important technical data and also a link list including Turkish shipping companies and websites of other ship photographers.
Note: since the end of 2015 this website is barely maintained!
Large database with many ship photos of different photographers, associated with the related AIS-Live data.
by Wolfram Tribull, Geisingen, Germany
A beautiful website from 2010 in German language but also including English descriptions, which offers photos and the technical data of nearly all types of ships as well as a guestbook.
The system shows the current positions of ships in the area of the Bremen ports and beyond.
Arrivals and sailings of cruise liners - Hamburg 2024 / 2025 (only in German language). The timeliness of this list is given above. Inside the violet window "Anläufe" you'll find links to the 2023 / 2025 sailing lists of the cruise liners, as well as a link below to the related printable pdf file. Additionally you will find a Link to the "Hamburg Harbour Birthday 2024".
below you will find the link to the list of arrivals and sailings of cruise liners - Kiel 2024.
Passage dates of cruise liners through the Kiel Canal - Rendsburg 2024 (the list will appear in German language - by using the button above to the right, you are able to change to the English or Denish language).
Sailing list of EUROGATE container terminal Bremerhaven, covers up to 4 weeks and will be refreshed daily.
Sailing list of EUROGATE container terminal Hamburg, covers up to 4 weeks and will be refreshed daily.
a current list in German language of approx. all ships in Hamburg Harbour (excl. harbour ferries). The ship names are linked to "Vesseltracker", green marked types indicate sailing ships including the direction. This list will be refreshed every 90 seconds.
Combined sailing list of the container terminals CTA, CTB und CTT in Hamburg which covers over 3 months. To get to the whole table, please use "3000" in the field "Max. number of results". If you are interested in a special date, please enter the desired date in the DD.MM format in the field of interest on top of the table.
If the English language version doesn't appear on the first visit, will you please click on "ENGLISH" at the top right.
Current ship list of Port of Kiel including arrivals, sailings and expected ships (only in German language).
"MarineTraffic" offers free of costs AIS ship positions with an accuracy of about 10 minutes.
Using the Link "NTBSailingList" a sailing list of the container terminal NTB in Bremerhaven is available, which covers up to 3 weeks and will be updated once per hour.
The Schiffsmeldedienst GmbH offers shipping lists, like arrival, sailing, in Port and expected for the whole German seagoing area. This service is liable to pay costs (only in German language).
"VesselFinder" bietet weltweit kostenlos AIS Schiffspositionen mit einer Genauigkeit von ca. 1 Minute an.
Website of the Turkish shipbreaking yard "Anadolu Gemi Söküm Ltd.", Aliaga, Turkey. The Link refers to the English ship reference list.
Website of the Turkish shipbreaking yard "Ege Gemi Söküm Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.", Aliaga, Turkey. The Link refers to the English ship reference list.
Very interesting and extensive French website in this topic (English Part). The ships are grouped by ship type and sorted in ascending alphabetical order. Besides each ship name you will also find the related IMO and the former names of the ship.
Note: meanwhile this website is barely maintained! (2016)
Some webcams only show thumbnails, therefore by mouse click on a thumbnail you'll get to the full picture.
Please remark, that webcams turn out or can be disconnected from time to time.
view from the compass bridge across the bow area towards the St. Pauli piers and the Blohm & Voss shipyard
view via "Fischmarkt" towards Blohm & Voss shipyard, dock 11
3 cameras from the office building "Palmaille 45":
camera East towards Tollerort Container Terminal (TCT)
camera South towards "Köhlbrand" with HHLA-Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in the background
camera West downstream towards Athabaskaquay of HHLA-Container Terminal Burchardquay (CTB)
This website and the included webcams are operated by "Grassau GmbH Abteilung IT-Service", Hamburg and offers different webcams from Hamburg to Wedel.
camera 2 upstream towards Hamburg
camera 1 downstream towards Stade
The camera views will be updated about every 20 seconds.
camera 2 upstream towards Hetlingen
camera 1 downstream towards Stade (Glückstadt)
The camera views currently will be updated every second.
view via the tributary "Schwinge" to the River Elbe
all in all 2 live cameras, thereof 1 in Brunsbüttel:
live camera 2: view via the the large locks
livestream camera 1: view from "Kreishafen" to the east towards the railway bridge of Rendsburg.
livestream camera 2: view from the railway bridge westwards along the "Kreishafen" towards the canal curve near Nuebbel.
view from the restaurant "Brückenterrassen" onto the Kiel Canal (currently not in service)
all in all 2 live cameras, thereof 1 in Kiel-Holtenau:
live camera 1: view via the New Locks
1 live webcam: panorama view on the New Locks (by using the link "LIVE WEBCAM")
1 camera: view from a residential building northeastward on the outer fjord:
The camera view currently will be updated every 30 seconds.
1 camera: view northwestward on the outer fjord:
The camera view currently will be updated every 60 seconds.
The camera view currently will be updated every 2 minutes.
The camera view currently will be updated every 2 minutes.
1 camera: view southeastward from the office building across the fjord:
The camera view currently will be updated every 60 seconds.
1 camera: view from the building "GEOMAR Helmholtz Centrum for Ocean Research" northeastward:
The camera view currently will be updated every 60 seconds.
1 camera: view from the Nikolai Church eastward towards the cruise liner terminal:
The camera view currently will be updated about every 5 minutes.
1 camera: view from the Nikolai Church southeastward towards HDW-Kiel:
The camera view currently will be updated about every 5 minutes.
1 camera: view from the Nikolai Church southward towards the Norway quay and Baltic Sea quay:
The camera view currently will be updated about every 5 minutes.
The camera view currently will be updated every 2 minutes.
The camera view currently will be updated every 60 seconds.
The camera view currently will be updated every 5 minutes.
The camera view currently will be updated every 2 minutes
Additionally this website also offers a "LIVESTREAM" with view on the Sea canal.
The camera view currently will be updated every 2 minutes
Additionally this website also offers a "LIVESTREAM" with view on the Sea canal.
camera 2, Sea canal: view from the western ferry site to the south
camera 3, ferry terminal Rostock: view northward towards the Sea canal
The camera views currently will be updated every 2 minutes.