Publication Data
DANFS was originally released by the Naval Historical Center (NHC) in bound hardcover volumes, ordered by ship name, from Volume I (A–B) published in 1959 to Volume VIII (W–Z) published in 1981. Volume I (A–B) subsequently went out of print. In 1991 a revised Volume I Part A, covering only ship names beginning with A, was released. Work continues on revisions of the remaining volumes.
Volunteers at the Hazegray website undertook to transcribe the DANFS and make it available on the World Wide Web. The project goal is a direct transcription of the DANFS, with changes limited to correcting typographical errors and editorial notes for incorrect facts in the original.
Subsequently, the NHC developed an online version of DANFS through a combination of optical character recognition (OCR) and hand transcription. The NHC is slowly updating its online DANFS to correct errors and take into account the gap in time between its publication and the present date. NHC prioritizes updates as follows: ships currently in commission, ships that came into commission after the volume (missing), ships decommissioned after the volume (incomplete), and finally updates to older ships. The NHC has begun a related project to place Ship History and Command Operations Reports online at their DANFS site.
| Volume | Date | Ships | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1959 | A–B | Out of print |
| II | 1963 | C–F | Out of print |
| III | 1968 | G–K | Out of print |
| IV | 1969 | L–M | |
| V | 1970 | N–Q | Out of print |
| VI | 1976 | R–S | |
| VII | 1981 | T–V | |
| VIII | 1981 | W–Z | Out of print |
| I-A | 1991 | A | Out of print |
| Hazegray | A–Z | Histories end at dates above | |
| Naval Historical Center | A–Z | Histories being brought up to date | |
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