Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Code to download data from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships to a sqlite database.

Running

$ python danfs.py

creates a sqlite3 database named danfs.sqlite3 with two tables: danfs_ships with all ships in the DANFS, and confederate_ships with all ships in the Confederate ships histories.

Download

You can download a SQLite version of the DANFS database from https://s3.amazonaws.com/data.jrnold.me/danfs/danfs.sqlite3 .