| "Double-ended and clinker-built" : the Irish dimension of a European boatbuilding tradition | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Book | Ulster Folk and Transport Museum | 1988 |
| 'Victorian' - a pioneer turbine steamer | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1977 |
| A Lough Neagh replica fishing boat | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| An account of life in late 19th century East Belfast | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| Dandys, luggers, herring and mackerel : a local study in the context of the Irish Sea fisheries in the nineteenth century | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Book | | 1989 |
| Early steamship enterprise in Ireland : the county of Down and Liverpool Steam-Boat Company, 1836-39 | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Enterprise and tribulations of a county Down shipowner | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1981 |
| Irish vernacular boats | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Irish vernacular boats and their European connections | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| Lord Templetown : a Belfast barque | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1977 |
| Paul Rodgers, an Ulster shipbuilder, and his Welsh connections | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Shadows fixed forever, the daguerreotype and portraiture 1839-42 : associated activities of two photographic pioneers in Belfast and London | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| Smugglers in the Irish Sea in the eighteenth century | Cullen, L. M. (Louis Michael) | Article in Book | Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies | 1989 |
| Steel ships and iron men : shipbuilding in Belfast, 1894-1912 | McCaughan, Michael | Monograph or Collective Volume | Friar's Bush | 1989 |
| The Birth of the Titanic | McCaughan, Michael | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1998 |
| The first Irish photographer : Francis S. Beatty of Belfast | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| The Irish Sea : Aspects of Maritime History | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies | 1989 |
| The merchant schooner 'result' | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| Titanic | McCaughan, Michael | Monograph or Collective Volume | Ulster Folk and Transport Museum | 1982 |
| Ulster boat types in old photographs | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1982 |
| Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven : The Phenomemon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond | McCaughan, Michael | Article in Journal | | 1998 |