The Author
The author/owner of the website is Rodger Barrington HAWORTH, who resides in Miramar, Wellington. In New Zealand since 1965, he originally hails from Yorkshire. He served in the N.Z. Army for 31 years, retiring as a major in 1990 continuing service as a civilian, but has been following nautical matters since 1957 when he joined the World Ship Society. He is a member of the New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, and of the International Naval Records Organization
Website Contents
Building of the database from which the Index comes started in about 1992, but written listings and records had been collected for many years prior. However, the Index is essentially a compilation of the work contained in many other sources, edited where necessary. Contributions have also been made by many users since the site went online. The website information would be much poorer without the material contained in the Starke/Schell Registers, started by Tony Starke and more recently authored by Willam A.Schell and Rodger Haworth, and marketed by the World Ship Society Ltd. The latter organization's shipyard lists team, coordinated by Captain John Landels, have also produced excellent source material which has improved the quality of the website.
| Date | Upload #1 | Ships | Indexlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-09-15 | 2006 | 207000 | 330000 |
| 2007-01-28 | 2007 | 210026 | 351678 |
| 2008-01-12 | 2008 | 220187 | 384710 |
| 2009-02-01 | 2009 | 230548 | 420775 |
| 2010-01-02 | 2010 | 235482 | 443376 |
| 2011-01-02 | 2011 | 243202 | 480322 |
| 2012-01-01 | 2012 | 248194 | 515221 |
| 2013-01-06 | 2013 | 253439 | 546763 |
| 2014-01-05 | 2014 | 257300 | 570870 |
| 2015-01-04 | 2015 | 261117 | 594068 |
| 2016-01-03 | 2016 | 265209 | 618094 |
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