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Also see [[Military periodicals online]] for details of ''Navy List''s, also see above, and publications such as ''Army and Navy Gazette'',  ''Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine'' and ''Naval & Military Gazette''.
Also see [[Military periodicals online]] for details of ''Navy List''s, also see above, and publications such as ''Army and Navy Gazette'',  ''Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine'' and ''Naval & Military Gazette''.
====General====
====General====
*[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 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 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.
*[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''],   
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:[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+] (pbenyon.plus.com) also  contains extracts of additional Admiralty Instructions.
:[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+] (pbenyon.plus.com) also  contains extracts of additional Admiralty Instructions.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Navy+records+society%22%29&sort=-date&page=1 Publications of the Navy Records Society]. Multiple volumes, from a Search using key words "Navy Records Society", from Volume 1, 1894, to 1926, some of which are catalogued according to year of publication, not specific title.  Archive.org. There may be additional volumes catalogued by title. Refer External links above, for the Navy Records Society, whose website contains details of its publications.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Navy+records+society%22%29&sort=-date&page=1 Publications of the Navy Records Society]. Multiple volumes, from a Search using key words "Navy Records Society", from Volume 1, 1894, to 1926, some of which are catalogued according to year of publication, not specific title.  Archive.org. There may be additional volumes catalogued by title. Refer External links above, for the Navy Records Society, whose website contains details of its publications.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5pdkLC95UfsC&pg=PR1 ''A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.''] by Edward Ives, formerly Surgeon of Admiral Watson’s Ship, and of His Majesty’s Hospital in the East Indies 1773 Google Books. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/502897 Pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.502897  Archive.org version].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5pdkLC95UfsC&pg=PR1 ''A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.''] by Edward Ives, formerly Surgeon of Admiral Watson’s Ship, and of His Majesty’s Hospital in the East Indies 1773 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.502897  Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.  
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/505275 ''The Navy In India 1763-1783''] by Herbert W. Richmond 1931. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505275  Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505275 ''The Navy In India 1763-1783''] by Herbert W. Richmond 1931. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40609/page/n7 ''Travels in India Ceylon and Borneo''] by Captain Basil Hall RN, FRS, Selected and edited by Professor H G Rawlinson  1931 Archive.org. Selected from ''Fragments of Voyages and Travels'' (in nine volumes). Captain Hall was appointed to the East India Station in 1812.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40609/page/n7 ''Travels in India Ceylon and Borneo''] by Captain Basil Hall RN, FRS, Selected and edited by Professor H G Rawlinson  1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.   Selected from ''Fragments of Voyages and Travels'' (in nine volumes). Captain Hall was appointed to the East India Station in 1812.
*''Report on the Health of the Navy''. Title varied. Initially titled ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy'', and some editions possibly may have been titled ''Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy''.  Also ''A Statistical Return of the Health of the Royal Navy''. Later titles may have omitted  ''Statistical''. It appears to have been published generally annually from  1830, through to c 1936 by HMSO [His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office] and also presented to the House of Commons as a Parliamentary Paper.
*''Report on the Health of the Navy''. Title varied. Initially titled ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy'', and some editions possibly may have been titled ''Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy''.  Also ''A Statistical Return of the Health of the Royal Navy''. Later titles may have omitted  ''Statistical''. It appears to have been published generally annually from  1830, through to c 1936 by HMSO [His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office] and also presented to the House of Commons as a Parliamentary Paper.
**[http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC1008939/pdf/brjindmed00111-0024.pdf "The health of the Navy: the changing pattern"] by FP Ellis ''Brit. J. Industr. Med''., 1969, 26, 190-201. pubmedcentralcanada.ca
**[http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC1008939/pdf/brjindmed00111-0024.pdf "The health of the Navy: the changing pattern"] by FP Ellis ''Brit. J. Industr. Med''., 1969, 26, 190-201. pubmedcentralcanada.ca
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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
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LtoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA318 "A Fight with Pirates in the China Seas] [c early-mid 1850s] by J. D. B. pages 318-322 ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 2'' Google Books
*"The Marines at Canton, The Peiho, and Pekin" [1856-1860] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92  Pages 92-103], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197 pages 197-202] ''The United Service Magazine 1876 Part 1'' Google Books
*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.
*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
*[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
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:[https://archive.org/details/qshipstheirstory00chatter ''Q-Ships and their Story''] 1923  Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ship] Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships,  designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. [http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA425342  ''Q-Ships of the Great War''] by Barbara J Coder a research paper April 2000. dtic.mil
:[https://archive.org/details/qshipstheirstory00chatter ''Q-Ships and their Story''] 1923  Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship Q-ship] Wikipedia. Q-Ships were armed ships, originally merchant ships,  designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. [http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA425342  ''Q-Ships of the Great War''] by Barbara J Coder a research paper April 2000. dtic.mil
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074797567?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Danger Zone: the Story of the Queenstown Command'']  1934 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074797567?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Danger Zone: the Story of the Queenstown Command'']  1934 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b745995?urlappend=%3Bseq=9''Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Also available  as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59017 pdf to download] Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59017  Archive.org version].
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b745995?urlappend=%3Bseq=9''Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59017  Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  HMS Severn  in East Africa.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  HMS Severn  in East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/pushingwater00dawsrich ''Pushing Water''] by Eric P  Dawson, Lieutenant, RNVR. 1918 Archive.org. The  Auxiliary Motor Boat Patrol, also known as the Mosquito Fleet.
*[https://archive.org/details/pushingwater00dawsrich ''Pushing Water''] by Eric P  Dawson, Lieutenant, RNVR. 1918 Archive.org. The  Auxiliary Motor Boat Patrol, also known as the Mosquito Fleet.
*[https://archive.org/details/doverduringdarkd00coxorich ''Dover during the Dark Days''] by a "Dug-Out" (Lieut.-Commander Stanley W Coxon RNVR). With contributions by other officers of the Dover Patrol. 1919 Archive.org. A volume in the ''On Active Service'' Series.
*[https://archive.org/details/doverduringdarkd00coxorich ''Dover during the Dark Days''] by a "Dug-Out" (Lieut.-Commander Stanley W Coxon RNVR). With contributions by other officers of the Dover Patrol. 1919 Archive.org. A volume in the ''On Active Service'' Series.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval  & Military Press reprint. Also available [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/Britains-Sea-Soldiers-A-History-of-the-Royal-Marines-1914-1919/HTML/index.asp#/2/zoomed lib.militaryarchive.co.uk], which requires Flash turned on (click if you see a Flash icon).
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval  & Military Press reprint.  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicrecordofbr00hurd ''The Heroic Record of the British Navy; a Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918''] by Archibald Hurd and H H Bashford 1919  Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicrecordofbr00hurd ''The Heroic Record of the British Navy; a Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918''] by Archibald Hurd and H H Bashford 1919  Archive.org
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====Fiction====
====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 mirror 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 ''The Devils Wind'']  by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Archive.org, Public  Library of India Collection.  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.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe  1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren  is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a  (fictious) Royal Navy  river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe  1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren  is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a  (fictious) Royal Navy  river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat.
: Note, this appears to  be the American title. Appears to be the same book as  ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
: Note, this appears to  be the American title. Appears to be the same book as  ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>

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Records

For a list of abbreviations used in service records, refer External links below.
  • A new free-to-search database resource project Royal Navy First World War Lives at Sea, based principally on service records held by The National Archives, is being undertaken, with the aim of completing the project by November 2018.
  • 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 Casualties 1914-1919". These are death records researched by Jack Marshall. Update: not available at 2018/11, not known if this is a permanent situation. Also available on Ancestry, see further on.
    • "Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
  • "WW1 Naval Casualties". Source unknown. Transcripts, no images.
  • "WW1 Ships Lost At Sea, 1914-1919" sourced from the National Archives WW1 Ship Casualties Card Index series ADM 242/6.
  • Ancestry (pay website) includes a database "UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960"[1] (located in BMD records). This database consists mainly of Naval records, sourced from the National Archives, Kew.
  • Ancestry (pay website) includes a database "Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924"[2], (Ancestry location Birth, Marriage & Death). These are death records researched by Jack Marshall.
  • Ancestry released 3 October 2018, the first stage of records in the database "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923",[3] (located in Military), which are index records, with the images available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3,[4] (which requires an Ancestry All Access subscription, or a separate fold3 subscription). The first released records relate to Naval and Mercantile Marine explained in the WFA article "Release of Naval and Mercantile Marine Pension Records by Ancestry" October 2018.
  • Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service Records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The FAA Museum, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, is located at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset (also known as HMS Heron). The FAA Museum generally does not hold records of service for those who enlisted after about 1925, which are still held in the custody of the Ministry of Defence.
  • Research guides: The Royal Navy Royal Museums Greenwich. Includes "Research guide B1: The Royal Navy: Tracing people" and "Research guide B3: The Royal Navy: Sources for enquiries".

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.
  • Research guide C1: The Merchant Navy : Tracing people – crew lists, agreements and official logs At the bottom of the page other guides to the Merchant Navy are listed including
Research guide C9: The Merchant Navy Find out about merchant ships involved in the First World War. Includes researching crew members, with links to additional guides. Royal Museums Greenwich.
  • The book Lloyd's War Losses : the First World War : casualties to shipping through enemy causes, 1914-1918 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011394103. This is a 1990 facsimile reprint of the original held at Guildhall Library, City of London, now the London Metropolitan Archives.

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 same dataset is also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
  • 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.

Also see

External links

In addition, HMS Highfligher was the Royal Naval Base at Trincomalee in Ceylon, commissioned on 1 July 1943.[5]

Historical books online

Also see Military periodicals online for details of Navy Lists, also see above, and publications such as Army and Navy Gazette, Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine and Naval & Military Gazette.

General

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
Kings Regulations & Admiralty Instructions - Part II 1913 Transcribed version, not all sections available. pbenyon.plus.com
Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+ (pbenyon.plus.com) also contains extracts of additional Admiralty Instructions.
Browse the Contents page for each issue, or there is an Index of articles 1913-1976. Pdf downloads. Many of the articles appear without authors, which appear in "Author List for the Naval Review 1913-1930" by James Goldrick.[6]
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. Available as an archived webpage.
  • "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. Available as an archived webpage.
  • "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.
  • Fifty Years in the Royal Navy by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Includes Naval gunnery, the Boxer Rising, the China Station and WW1.
  • 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. Q-Ships of the Great War by Barbara J Coder a research paper April 2000. dtic.mil
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 Archive.org version, Public Library of India Collection.
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.
Includes Volume 2 East Africa to July 1915; Cameroons, 1914; Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf; Volume 5 including China Squadron, 1914 (including Emden Hunt), and East Indies Squadron, 1914 [7]
BR 1886 (C.B. 4273 (52) H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action 3 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 Based on reports held in the Admiralty at the time of its publication in 1952. A publication in the Navy Department: Reference Books (BR Series). Website of the Royal Australian Navy.

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

Other online volumes :
  • Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918: Der Krieg in der Nordsee Volume 1, Volume 3, Volume 4 (of seven volumes). German language. National Library of Estonia - English webpage option available.
  • Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918: Der Krieg in der Ostsee Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3. Archive.org. German language.

Fiction

  • The Devils Wind by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. 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.
  • Yangtze Skipper, by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 Shanghai, Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author had served in this period on HMS Scarab a river gunboat.
Note, this appears to be the American title. Appears to be the same book as River of Golden Sand by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. A review of River of Golden Sand [8]
Naval Odyssey by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published 1936. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitious) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in the events in Turkey during the 1920s, and the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. A publisher's note about the book and the author, says "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified to write a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy".[9]
Thomas Bovius Ralph Woodrooffe was in the Royal Navy from 1917 and became Lieutenant-Commander in 1929, retired/was dismissed in 1933 and then served in WW2. In Good Company, published 1947 is a memoir about his WW2 service as a Naval Observer. He also wrote a number of other books on naval matters. His navy service is here scroll down to his entry. unithistories.com

References

  1. UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Ancestry (located in BMD records)
  2. Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924 Ancestry
  3. "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923" Ancestry.
  4. "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers, 1914-1923" fold3.
  5. HMS Highflyer – History lankalibrary.com.
  6. "Author List for the Naval Review 1913-1930" by James Goldrick Appendix C, page 341 Mahan is not enough : the proceedings of a conference on the works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond 1993 Archive.org
  7. gwyrosydd Naval Staff Monographs online Great War Forum 16 March 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  8. Books of the Week: Morning Tribune, 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg
  9. "Publisher's Note" [about Naval Odyssey] Morning Tribune, 27 April 1936, Page 15. nlb.gov.sg.