Journey Plotter

Visualize journeys of WW1-era Royal Navy vessels or US vessels on Arctic voyages

Journey Plotter is an application for visualizing journeys of Royal Navy vessels of the World War 1-era, or Arctic voyages of United States vessels from the mid 19th century onwards.

For a given day, you can see the ship's position and read the log-book entries that describe activities on board.

Select from hundreds vessels, the number is still increasing, from the following services:

• Royal Navy

• United States Navy

• United States Revenue Service/Coast Guard

• United States Coast & Geodetic Survey

• United States Fish Commission

Source of information:

This app makes use of information from original Royal Navy and United States log-books that are available at the National Archives of their nations, respectively https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ for the Royal Navy, and https://www.archives.gov/ for the United States services, and has been digitised and then made available by Naval-History.Net (https://www.naval-history.net).

Journey Plotter provides links to the source for each individual ship.

The log-books have been transcribed by volunteers on the Old Weather (https://www.oldweather.org) project and edited into a more readable form by volunteers on the Naval-History.Net project.

Many thanks to the late Gordon Smith for graciously letting us use the information available from Naval-History.Net.

And thanks, of course, to all those volunteers who transcribed and edited the log-books.

Disclaimer:

Although this app displays historical naval information from the Royal Navy, the US Navy and other US services, it does not represent any government entity.

A journey can consist of large amounts of data, so it's advisable to use a Wi-Fi connection if you're being charged for your data use.

Journey Plotter can be kept free of cost by showing interstitial advertisements.

You can, however, make an in-app purchase to remove advertisements.

A word on the location permissions.

Journey Plotter isn't using your position in any form, but this permission is required for Google Maps.