Naval Library · Reference database
Every warship, every hull, every system — in one app.
- 2,000+classes
- 6,000+ships
- 103navies
- Updateddaily
The complete database for naval vehicle specifications — every ship with its own page and logbook, plus submarines, aircraft, missiles, unmanned systems and equipment, cross-referenced and kept current by daily movement updates.
What's inside
One database. Every category a navy operates.
Classes, the individual hulls inside them, and the systems fitted on board are linked to each other — open a destroyer and you reach its radar; open the radar and you reach every ship that carries it, and the company that builds it.
- 2,000+Warship classesCarriers to patrol boats, all navies
- 6,000+Individual shipsOwn page, status and logbook per hull
- 230+SubmarinesNuclear and conventional
- 170+Naval aircraftFixed wing, rotary, tiltrotor
- 400+Unmanned systemsUSV, UUV, UAV
- 1,000+EquipmentRadars, sonars, EW, missiles, guns
- 103NaviesEvery operator, every fleet list
- 200+InfographicsInteractive equipment cutaways
Figures as of September 2026. New classes, hulls and systems are added as they are confirmed.
Not just the class — the ship itself.
Every hull has its own page: hull number, status, builder, commissioning date and homeport, the specifications that differ from its class, and a logbook of port calls, exercises and deployments with the last known position on the map.
- Status lifecycle: fitting out, active, in refit, reserve, decommissioned
- Flight/batch-specific specs where they differ from the class
- Class data as the fallback — nothing is ever blank
Type a name, a hull number or a system.
Search finds individual ships as well as classes, aircraft, missiles, equipment and infographics — "Carney", "DDG-64" or "Fregat" all land where you expect.
Ask in plain language. Answers come from the database.
Which navies operate a class, what a ship carries, how two designs differ — the assistant answers from Naval Library's own records, not from the open internet, so the figures match the pages you can open.
Tap the ship, learn the system.
Interactive cutaways of major classes: every hotspot opens the radar, launcher or sensor fitted there, with its own specifications and the other ships that carry it.
103 navies on one globe. Builders linked to what they build.
Pick a navy on the globe to see its full order of battle; open a manufacturer to see every system it supplies and which ships carry them.
Books, reports, papers, theses and articles.
A curated reading room: institutional reports, academic papers, naval theses and analysis pieces, searchable and sorted by type — the sources behind the numbers.
Kept current
A reference that moves with the fleet.
Naval data goes stale fast. Naval Library is maintained every day, and every change is reviewed by an editor before it is published.
Ship movements and naval news
Official navy releases, defence ministries and open-source reporting are monitored every day. Port calls, exercises, deployments, launches and commissionings go into each ship's logbook and the Recent Updates feed.
Ship profiles, verified
Builder, launch and commissioning dates, homeport and status are checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources hull by hull, and rechecked on a rolling schedule.
Human review
Nothing reaches the app automatically. Every proposed change lands on an editor's desk first — and readers can flag errors from any page with Suggest an Edit.
Naval Library Pro
Free to browse the fleet. Pro for the full picture.
Warships, submarines and naval aircraft are free. Pro opens the rest of the database and the analysis tools.
Missiles, weapons & unmanned systems
The full weapons and unmanned categories with specifications and operators.
Equipment
1,000+ radars, sonars, EW, communication and launcher systems, each linked to the ships that carry it.
Ship Tracker
Recent ship positions on a 3D globe — filter by date, jump to any ship.
Compare
Two classes side by side, specification by specification.
Countries & infographics
Every navy's order of battle and 200+ interactive cutaways.
Offline mode
Download navies and read everything at sea, without a connection.
Questions
Before you download.
Where does the data come from?
Official navy and ministry publications, manufacturer documentation, encyclopaedic sources and open-source reporting, cross-checked against each other. Sources are cited on the pages where they matter, and every change is reviewed by an editor before it is published.
How often is it updated?
Ship movements and naval news are added daily. Ship profiles are re-verified on a rolling schedule; new classes, hulls and systems are added as they are confirmed.
Does it work without a connection?
Yes. Pro users can download whole navies for offline use; pages, photographs and specifications then open at sea or in the air with no signal.
Which platforms?
iPhone and iPad on the App Store, Android phones and tablets on Google Play. One subscription covers your account on both.
I found a mistake — what do I do?
Every page has Suggest an Edit. Describe the correction, attach a photo or a short video if you have one, and it lands directly on the editor's desk. Contributors are credited in the app.
Get the app
Put the world's navies in your pocket.
Free to install. Warships, submarines and naval aircraft are open to everyone; Pro unlocks the rest whenever you need it.