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*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YWUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Royal Naval Biography] 1828 by John Marshall googlebooks
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YWUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Royal Naval Biography] 1828 by John Marshall googlebooks
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yKRWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false A New List of all the Ships and Vessels of Her Majesties Royal Navy ...] pub 1711. Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yKRWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false A New List of all the Ships and Vessels of Her Majesties Royal Navy ...] pub 1711. Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ejusT5Z7AMC&pg=PR1  ‪''The Ship-master's Assistant and Owner's Manual: Containing Complete Information, as Well to Merchants, Masters of Ships, and Persons Employed in the Merchant-service, as to Officers and Others in the Royal Navy, Relative to the Mercantile and Maritime Laws and Customs''] by  ‪David Steel. 9th Edition  Very Considerably Improved and Enlarged 1801 Google Books.
*''The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present'' by Sir Wm. Laird Clowes. Volume VII has title ''The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria''. Archive.org.  [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory01clow ''Volume I''],  [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory02clow ''Volume II''],   
*''The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present'' by Sir Wm. Laird Clowes. Volume VII has title ''The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria''. Archive.org.  [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory01clow ''Volume I''],  [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory02clow ''Volume II''],   
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory03clow ''Volume III''] 1898. Covers the period  1714-1792. [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavyhistory03clow#page/580/mode/2up/search/India Index entry East India]
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory03clow ''Volume III''] 1898. Covers the period  1714-1792. [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavyhistory03clow#page/580/mode/2up/search/India Index entry East India]
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy for the Year 1871''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 46'' 1873. Google Books.  
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy for the Year 1871''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 46'' 1873. Google Books.  
*:Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218 "East India Station"], page 218, with [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218-IA1 Map of East India Station], and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261 "China Station"] page 261
*:Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218 "East India Station"], page 218, with [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218-IA1 Map of East India Station], and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261 "China Station"] page 261
*Cover title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i45eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''A Naval Cadet with H.M.S. Shannon Brigade in India: Journal of Edward Spencer Watson''].  Title page ''Journal. India: with H.M.S. "Shannon", Naval Brigade, from August 18th, 1858''. Note however, there appears to be a typographical error, as correct date should be 1857.  Catalogued as published  1858. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A7XMfkemThoC&pg=PR5 ‪''The Shannon's Brigade in India‬: ‪being some account of Sir William Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858'']‬  by Edmund Hope Verney, Lieut. R.N. 1862 ‪Google Books
**Also see Fiction below for a novel, ''The Devil's Wind'' by Maj. Gen.G.L. Verney, concerning the Shannon's Brigade.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Navy Estimates''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 35'' 1863. Google Books. Includes
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Navy Estimates''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 35'' 1863. Google Books. Includes
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109 "China"]
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109 "China"]
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**[https://archive.org/stream/ReviewOfGermanCruiserWarfare19141918#page/n22/mode/1up Page 17]. German Cruiser  "Wolf" was ordered to lay mines off various Indian ports.
**[https://archive.org/stream/ReviewOfGermanCruiserWarfare19141918#page/n22/mode/1up Page 17]. German Cruiser  "Wolf" was ordered to lay mines off various Indian ports.
*''Der Kreuzerkrieg in den ausländischen Gewässern'', published 1922 - 1937, part of the [https://www.navy-history.com/der-krieg-zur-see-1914-1918/ official series ''Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918''] German language. [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi01raed  ''Volume 1'']; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi02raed  ''Volume 2''] which includes the Indian Ocean; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi03raed ''Volume 3'']. The latter includes [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/236/mode/2up "S M Hilfskreuzer Wolf"] page 237  with [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/259/mode/1up Map of mines around Bombay, laid 19/20 January 1917 by Wolf]  Archive.org. Note, there was a 2nd,  revised version of Volume 1, published  in 1927 which possibly also includes Volume 2 as one volume.
*''Der Kreuzerkrieg in den ausländischen Gewässern'', published 1922 - 1937, part of the [https://www.navy-history.com/der-krieg-zur-see-1914-1918/ official series ''Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918''] German language. [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi01raed  ''Volume 1'']; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi02raed  ''Volume 2''] which includes the Indian Ocean; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi03raed ''Volume 3'']. The latter includes [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/236/mode/2up "S M Hilfskreuzer Wolf"] page 237  with [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/259/mode/1up Map of mines around Bombay, laid 19/20 January 1917 by Wolf]  Archive.org. Note, there was a 2nd,  revised version of Volume 1, published  in 1927 which possibly also includes Volume 2 as one volume.
'''Fiction'''
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449028 ''The Devils Wind'']  by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 Archive.org version]. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 told through the eyes of a very young sailor.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 01:11, 5 September 2017

Records

  • A great number of service records for seamen who joined the Royal Navy between 1853 and 1923 are now online and can be searched and downloaded at the relevant documents online section of the The National Archives website. There is no charge for the initial search but a small fee applies to obtain sight of the full record.
  • Other Navy Records held at the National Archives include Officers’ service records (1756-1917) and wills of Royal Naval Seamen (1786-1822). – many of these records can also be searched and downloaded.
  • findmypast includes two associated databases located in Armed forces & conflict/Service Records
"British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919" and "British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records Browse, 1704-1919".These include records from the National Archives series ADM 29 / 1-32, 34-131 – Admiralty: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, coastguard and related services: Officers’ and Ratings’ Service Records (Series II) 1802-1919.
  • findmypast includes two databases located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War
"Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1919"
"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.

Merchant Navy

  • findmypast includes the following databases located in Education & work/Merchant navy & maritime
    • Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1918-1941. National Archives records BT 348, BT 349, BT 350 and BT 364. Images. Some records include photographs
    • England & Wales Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913. Transcripts and some images. Includes Lascars
    • Ireland Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1863-1921. Images of the original records from the National Archives of Ireland. Crew members were not only from Ireland but also from around the world.

Navy List

  • For links to a selection from 1782 -1945 searchable online see the Fibiwiki page Military Periodicals online- Navy Lists
  • Online Navy Lists are also available on the website of the National Library of Scotland, NLS, with transcriptions available, together with a Search facility, as Navy Lists: 1913 to 1944
  • The pay website Ancestry has a broken range of editions of the Navy List from 1888 to 1970. These are searchable by name and linked to relevant page images.
  • The National Archives catalogue entry 18th Century Royal Navy Lists 1782, 1790-1799 QLIB 3. National Archives Library. The full title of the Lists is Steel's Original and Correct List of the Royal Navy. The Lists were published monthly during war and quarterly during peace, and include details of ships of the Honourable East-India Company. All years are available as a pay download.
  • For editions not available online, The Navy List is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01012418229, from 1815, and also in the Library of the National Archives, from November 1814.

Medal Rolls

Free downloads of the Naval Medal Rolls are available from the National Archives website, or the same information is available on the pay website Ancestry. See the page Medal Rolls for details.

External links

Historical books online

Volume III 1898. Covers the period 1714-1792. Index entry East India
Volume IV 1899. Includes "Major Operations of the Royal Navy 1793-1802" page 196
Volume V 1900. Includes "Major Operations of the Royal Navy 1803-1815" page 44
Volume VI 1901. Includes "Military History of the Royal Navy 1816-1856" page 222
Volume VII 1903. Includes "Military History of the Royal Navy 1857-1900" page 91
During most of WWI the Journal was not published, but information was collected and published after the War. “In World War II there was no censorship, and the regular “Notes on the War at Sea” and "Diary of the War at Sea" are important records of naval events during World War II.“ The website Naval-History.Net, refer above, contains an index of articles relating to WW1.
  • "A Naval Brigade In Burma in 1858" (scroll down) by W. B. R. The Naval Review May 1938 Vol XXVI no 2, pages 283-288. The destination was the frontier post and Fort at Meaday, on the Irrawaddy.
  • "The Tigris Above Baghdad" by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 The Naval Review February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
  • "The First Commission of HMS Firefly" by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN JRNMS Volume 4, 1918 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on the river Tigris.
  • History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org and Hathi Trust (Vol. V): Volume I, Volume II, includes Gallipoli. Volume III Includes Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. Volume IV , includes Mesopotamia. Volume V. Naval-History.net has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
History of the Great War based on Official Documents: The Merchant Navy by Archibald Hurd 1921-1929. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org. Volume III is available as a transcribed edition on Naval-History.net
  • First World War books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR:
Q-Ships and their Story 1923 Archive.org. Q-ship Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
Danger Zone: the Story of the Queenstown Command 1934 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a pdf to download Digital Library of India, Archive.org version.
Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean [1914-1918] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
"Severn's" Saga by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library. HMS Severn in East Africa.

Civilians in the First World War

  • A Captive on a German Raider by F G Trayes 1918. Archive.org The author, who was retiring from Siam, was a passenger on a Japanese ship "Hitachi Maru" which was captured by the "Wolf" (see next section) on 26 September 1917, two days after leaving Colombo.

German Navy

Fiction

  • The Devils Wind by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 told through the eyes of a very young sailor.

References

  1. gwyrosydd Naval Staff Monographs online Great War Forum 16 March 2015, Retrieved 16 March 2015