Newspapers & News Agencies
Acme News Pictures; Amador Ledger; California Star & Californian; Associated Press; Coronado Eagle & Journal; Crescent City American; Crescent City Courier; Crescent City Herald; Daily Alta California; Daily Humboldt Standard; Del Norte Herald; De Norte Triplicate; Eureka Times-Standard; Healdsburg Enterprise; Healdsburg Tribune; Humboldt Times; Journal of Commerce; Long Beach Press-Telegram; Los Angeles Daily Commercial News & Shipping Guide; Los Angeles Daily Express; Los Angeles Herald; Los Angeles Herald-Examiner; Los Angeles Star; Los Angeles Times; Marin Journal; Mariposa Gazette; Marysville Daily Appeal; New York Times; New York Tribune; Oakland Tribune; Orange County Register; Pacific Marine Review; Pacific Rural Press; Red Bluff Daily News; Russian River Flag; Sacramento Daily Union; Sacramento Transcript; San Diego Daily Union; San Francisco Bulletin; San Francisco Californian; San Francisco Call; San Francisco Chronicle; San Pedro News Pilot; Santa Barbara Daily Press; Santa Barbara Morning Press; Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel; Sausalito News; Sotoyome Scimitar; The Times of London; Tombstone Daily Epitaph; Torrance Daily Breeze; Ukiah Republican-Press; United Press; United Press International; Ventura Signal; Weekly Alta California; West Coast Signal; Western Watchman.
Publications
American Shipper; Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History; Marine Digest; Marine Engineering Log; Marine News; Naval Institute Proceedings; Naval History Magazine; Pacific Maritime Review; Pacific Shipper; PowerShips; Sea Classics; Sea History; Ships & Boats; Ships Monthly; Steamboat Bill.
Books
Benson, Richard M. Steamships and Motorships of the West Coast. Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Co., 1968.
Coman, Edwin T. and Gibbs, Helen M. Time Tide & Timber: Over a Century of Pope & Talbot. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1949.
Chapelle, Howard M. The Search for Speed Under Sail, 1700-1885. New York, New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1967
Cutler, Carl C. Greyhounds of the Sea. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
Delgado, James P. To California by Sea. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
______________ and Heller, Stephen. Shipwrecks at the Golden Gate. Lexikos, 1989.
Gibbs, James. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast. Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort, 1957.
__________. Disaster Log of Ships. New York, New York: Superior Books, 1971.
__________. Peril at Sea. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1986.
__________. Pacific Square Riggers. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1987.
__________. West Coast Lighthouses. Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Co., 1974.
Gleason, Duncan. The Islands and Ports of California. New York, New York: The Devin-Adair Co., 1958.
Hitchman, James H. A Maritime History of the Pacific Coast 1540-1980. Lanham, Maryland: The University Press of America, 1990.
Jackson, Walter A. The Doghole Schooners. Volcano, California: California Traveler Publications, 1969.
Kemble, John Haskell. San Francisco Bay. New York, New York: Bonanza Books, 1957.
__________. A Hundred Years of Pacific Mail. Newport News, Virginia. The Mariners Museum, 1950.
Krieger, Michael. Where Rails Meet the Sea. New York, New York. Michael Friedman Publishing Group, 1998.
Layton, Thomas N. The Voyage of the Frolic. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Lockwood, Charles A. Tragedy at Honda. Washington, D.C. Naval Institute Press, 1986.
Lubbock, Basil. The Down Easters. New York, New York: Dover Publications, 1987.
McNairn, Jack and MacMullen, Jerry. Ships of the Redwood Coast. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1945.
Marquez, Ernest M. Port Los Angeles: A Phenomenon of the Railroad Era. San Marino, California: Golden West Books, 1975.
Marshall, Don B. California Shipwrecks. Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Co., 1978.
Miller, William H. Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2006.
Mitchell, Al. Historic American Lighthouses. New York, New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003
Newell, Gordon and Williamson, Joe. Pacific Lumber Ships. New York, New York: Superior Books, 1960.
_____________________________. Pacific Coastal Liners. Seattle, Washington: Superior Books, 1959.
Niven, John. The American President Lines and Its Forebears 1848-1984. Newark, Delaware. The University of Delaware Press, 1987.
O’Flaherty, Joseph S. An End and a Beginning: The South Coast and Los Angeles 1850-1887. Pasadena, California: The Castle Press, 1992.
________________. Those Powerful Years: The South Coast and Los Angeles 1887-1917. Pasadena, California: The Castle Press, 1992.
Sawyer, L.A. and Mitchell, W.H. Victory Ships and Tankers. Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, 1974.
________________________. The Liberty Ships, 2nd Edition. New York, New York: Lloyd’s of London Press, 1985.
Semones, JoAnn. Sea of Troubles: The Lost Ships of Big Sur. El Cerrito, California: The Glencannon Press, 2012.
Shaw, James L. Ships of the Panama Canal. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Soule, Frank, Gihon, John H. and Nisbet, James. The Annals of San Francisco. Berkeley, California: The Berkeley Press, 1999.
Stindt, Fred A. Matson’s Century of Ships. San Francisco, California: Private Printing, 1991.
Tate, E. Mowbray. Transpacific Steam. Cranbury, New Jersey: Cornwall Books, 1996.
U.S. Government Printing Office. List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1884-1920, Washington D.C.
