Ships in WorldCat Identities

A colleague was in my office wondering if Captain Cook's ships are in WorldCat Identities.  Sure, they are.  Here are the ones I found:

Resolution
Discovery
Adventure

and Endeavour (suggested by Debbie below).

In honor of Darwin's 200 birthday here is the HMS Beagle.  And of course the Titanic.

If ships, why not spaceships?  The key word is spacecraft:

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Apollo 13
• Columbia
• Vostok

There are even imaginary space vehicles (e.g. Rama).

Mostly people write about ships, but under AACR-2 the ships themselves can be considered authors (e.g. of their logs).  If you look at the LC/NACO authority record for the Hubble Space Telescope you will see it established as a corporate name.  Which almost makes sense!  Rama however, is established only as a subject, so it can't author anything.

--Th

Comments

[Jason Lee]

Thom,
my brother would be entirely let down if Tardis wasn't established as a WC Identity.

:)

[anne beaumont]

WorldCat is great, and so are WorldCat Identities. But there is still a problem for those of us whose records are in WorldCat, but there is not an OCLC number in our records because they were originally created and loaded into a different union catalogue (in our case, the Australian Bibligraphic Network) and the original is well and truely pre-isbn. This means that the link comes back to the search screen on our catalogue, but not to the real record - which in the case of many of the works, for example Cook's voyages, may be very early and significant holdings.

[Debbie]

Thom, you should also include the Endeavour.