International Maritime Research is a voluntary organisation researching the histories of all British Merchant and Naval vessels from 1900 to the present. A key part of this research covers the British, Allied and Neutral ships lost in both World Wars. The central part of the database is the names of 32,000 merchant seamen who lost their lives linked to the history of the ship detailing how they were lost. This information has involved research from a wide range of nautical sources and can fill in the gaps for those researching genealogy.

We have comprehensive information on all British Merchant ships lost in WWII and are now working on Allied vessels and British ships lost in WWI. We have information on 10,000 merchant vessels lost in both wars. We have full histories of an additional 10,000 ships both pre and post war. Did you lose loved ones at sea during the war? We can give you information on Merchant or Naval losses.

To remember the forgotten service we have a memorial page featuring a different ship each month with the names of those lost.
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Our aim is threefold:

	To provide information to seafarers and their families as to what happened to the ships they sailed on and answer questions regarding relatives lost at sea during the war.
	To publicise the role of the Merchant Navy in the Second World War.
	To create an historical database of all British vessels (Merchant or Naval) of this century.
	We also research a large number of non British ships.