This is a selected list of resources on passenger travel. There are books looking at the liners from particular lines like Cunard and White Star, as well as books looking at the larger and often more well-known ocean liners generally that will have physical information about the ships themselves. We have also included material about the mail steamships because they are often closely aligned with passenger travel. The list, however, doesn't include titles from every country or all titles that may be relevant so please search the online catalog for additional resources.
We have also included titles like timetables that, while not strictly ship registers, can help trace the ships used by the lines and their movements.
The following materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to digital content are provided when available.
The ABC Shipping Guide
British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans, a Record of the British Passenger Lines and Their Liners from 1838 to the Present Day by Directory Relating to Record of Arrival of Passenger Steamships at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, 1904 to 1926 InclusiveFord's Official Freighter Travel Guidebook.Lloyd's Loading List.North Atlantic Seaway : an Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New in Four Volumes by OAG Worldwide Cruise & Shipline GuideOfficial Steamship & Airways Guide, InternationalPassenger Liners of the Western Ocean; a record of the North Atlantic steam and motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day by Passenger Ships of the World, Past and Present. by Queens of the Western Ocean; the Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines by South Atlantic Seaway : An Illustrated History of the Passenger Lines and Liners from Europe to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina by Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983 by 
