A new list of naval and maritime museums in Britain is now available for
ftp etc from mailbase uk. It lists 146 museums plus 182 historic
vessels: mostly small craft owned by the museums. The museums range from
major Naval and National maritime ones to small local collections. The
themes are not limited to mainstream nautical matters; they encompass
everything from archaeology (underwater) to zoology (marine) and include
a collection of marine chronometers, several inland waterway and
lake-craft collections, shipwrecks, lifeboats & lighthouses, fishing &
whaling, exploration, and lots more.
 
The list is a long one: about 2193 lines, 84912 bytes of ascii text (not
compressed). Dr Glen Segell of King's College London has kindly made it
available from his mailbase files. To retrieve it:
 
  anonymous ftp:
  ftp mailbase.ac.uk
  login: anonymous
  username: your-e-mail-address
  set file type binary  (**)
  cd /pub/lists-f-j/history-sources/files
  get maritime-museums
 
    (**) binary transfer only needed in special circumstances.
 
  anonymous ftp via WWW:
  file://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-f-j/history-sources/maritime-museums
 
  WWW URL:
  gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-f-j/history-sources/files/maritime-museums
 
  GOPHER:
  Type=1
  Name=MARITIME-MUSEUMS
  Host=mailbase.ac.uk
  Port=70
  Path=11/lists-f-j/history-sources/files/maritime-museums
 
We hope you find the list useful. We will welcome feedback: corrections,
additions & deletions and general comments.               Mon  09-01-95
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    Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge  CB2 1ER,  UK.
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