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*National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
**[https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/research-guides National Maritime Museum Research Guides]
**[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. Note it is now possible to Search in [https://archive.org/details/pub_notes-and-queries?&sort=date ''Notes and Queries'' 1849-2014] collection Archive.org. This collection is a series of digitised microfilmed weekly editions. If you have a reference, select the required year from the filters on the left hand side of the webpage. In addition, there may be other editions which can be found by a general search for this title. It is possible to Search text contents for the whole collection.</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.
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