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The Marine Registers held at the GRO do not contain entries relating to marriages at sea.
There are some records relating to events at sea in the RG series of overseas records, see '''[[General Register Office]]. These ''' which details how to access these records are available online on pay websites.
*The GRO marine births and deaths indexes images can be browsed without charge at familyrelatives.com, but it is not possible to search for a specific name, as the images have not been transcribed. See [[Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|'''Chaplains Returns''']] for more details about this websiteand how to access these records online on pay websites.
*The indexes are also available as [[FamilySearch]] microfiches, which may become digitally available by approximately the end of 2020. See [[Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|Chaplains Returns]] for more details.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] Family Search Wiki. There are some references to events at sea
*[https://archives.history.ac.uk/guildhallmanuscripts/overseas.htm Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section. Leaflet Guides to Records: Births, Marriages And Deaths Overseas] These records have since been transferred to the London Metropolitan Archives.
*[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/sheet/43 Tracing Seafaring Ancestors In The Merchant Navy] National Museums Liverpool, Maritime Archives & Library Information Sheet 43, dated 2015. Includes a section on deaths.
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