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**[https://memorials.rmg.co.uk Maritime Memorials] in respect of ships’ crews’ deaths. Search for entries for India, Burma, Burmah and Myanmar, Ceylon and Sri Lanka, and other countries such as China, Singapore etc. (Entries for Karachi were classified as India). Some entries are listed below.<ref> Some entries are listed in [https://web.archive.org/web/20200813063344/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/312109/ Maritime cemetery entries from National Maritime Museum website] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 5 January 2014, now archived. The correct [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year ''Notes and Queries''] reference for the Karachi burials mentioned appears to be Vol 170 1936.</ref>, or search by name. An associated National Maritime Museum website.
*: '''Update''' noted 2023/01. This database now appears only to be available to researchers onsite at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, see the page [https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/library-archive/maritime-memorials-searching-lives-lost-sea Searching for lives lost at sea] rmg.co.uk
*:However, noted 2023/01/24 the website "Maritime Memorials" seems to be freely available again.
**[http://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk Crew Lists of the British Merchant Navy-1915] National Maritime Museum. The crews originated from all over the world and on some vessels the British nationals were in a minority.
*[http://www.crewlist.org.uk/#top CLIP - the Crew List Index Project]. A not-for-profit volunteer project, with databases of British seafarers and ships records, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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