The Great Ocean Liners - The most comprehensive site about Ocean liners, with great site design and an ever-expanding database covering probably over a hundred ships. This is allso the site that introduced Kalle to Michelangelo and Raffaello. -Source-
Ben Shumin's Classic Liners of Long Ago - A good site giving insight on several liners, although no info on the Italian Sisters.
SS Michelangelo and Raffaello & Lost Italian ships, Michelangelo and Raffaello - Two sites about Michelangelo and Raffaello by Chris, who was very helpful in providing me with information sources on the White Elephants. In addition to the Project, these are the only pages in the web dedicated to Michelangelo and Raffaello alone.
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The Crow's Nest - A great site dedicated solely to P&O Lines' Australian liner Canberra. The site design is simply excellent, and there isn't much about the Canberra that would not be covered here.
Normandie: The Ship of Light - A great site covering the story of the French liner Normandie. I only wish I could provide as much information about the Michelangelo and Raffaello.
Yesterday's Liners (Photographs by Paul Klee) - A site with various maritime pictures, and some pics on the Italian Bellezze as well. -Source-
Maritime Timetable Images - A site dedicated to maritime timetables. Some interesting and beautiful images of timetables of the Italian Line are also included. -Source-
Monsters of The Sea - A good if somewhat limited site on various ocean liners of the past.
The Late, Great Ocean Liners - A wonderfully designed site that has a great slection of ocean liners divided by country of origin. -Source-
Cruising the 21st Century - A beautiful cruiseship-oriented site maintained by Onno Heesbeen. Includes a vast collection of pictures, and designs of Onno's own ship, the Queen Victoria. The site design is simply gorgeous!
Italia di Navigazione S.p.A. - Website of the Italian Line itself. The site offers some information and gorgeous pictures of all the ships they have had in service, including, naturally, the beautiful twins.
Silja Opera Pages - A website by Heikki Kautiainen dedicated to the magnificient Finnish/Swedish cruiseship Silja Opera (also known as Viking Saga, Sally Albatross, Leeward and SuperStar Taurus), which I have had the pleasure of visiting in person.
www.vikingline.cjb.net - A finnish website dedicated to the finnish maritime company Viking Line. Unfortunately this site is available only in Finnish.
Silja Line sivut - A sister site of the aboce, dedicated to the Finnish/Swedish company Silja Line. This site (which loads very slowly on my computer) is also available in English (I think).
Estline sivut - Another sister site of the above two, this time dediced to the now deceased Estonian company Estline.
Tyco2100's webshots gallery - This a webgallery by tyco, aka Mario C. of Project Michelangelo, featuring many, many beautiful pictures of the Michelangelo and Raffaello. -Source-
In addition to websites, there were a few books that I used as information sources for the site, or for general information. They are all worth checking out if you can find them:
Laivojen Kirja by Bo Rosén and Bengt Ohrelius (originally published in swedish with name Stora Bok om Fartyg), published in 1959 by WSOY - Kalle's first book on liners and thus worth mentioning. Made when the Michelangelo and Raffaello were still in the drawing boards, this book is in fact older than his mother. Very good collection of general nautical facts. In Finnish.
Ocean Liners by Olivier le Goff, published in 1999 by Greenwich Editions - A good book about the most famous liners, with some surprising ships included simply because they're French.
Monarchs of the Sea: The Great Ocean Liners by Kurt Ulrich, published by Tauris Parke - An extremely good, comprehensive general guide to liners and cruiseships, with special introductions of selected gems of the seas, including the beautiful Italians. -Source-
There have also been many people who have been helpful in collecting material about the Bellezze. We would like to thank Jerry T. Corleone, Jim Lopilato, Gemma Anderson, Peter LeMonde, William E. Tangeman, Stephen Owens and Simone Bandini for providing us with first class information on the ships