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:For information about revised editions, including an online version on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[Royal Navy]].
:''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: The Merchant Navy'' by Archibald Hurd 1921-1929. [https://archive.org/details/merchantnav01hurd Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/merchantnavy02hurduoft Volume II], Archive.org. Volume III is available as a transcribed edition on [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176420 ''The Naval Memoirs Of of Admiral Of The of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. The Narrow Seas to the Dardanelles 1910-1915''] 1934. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524527 ''The Naval Memoirs Of of Admiral Of The of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. Scarpa Flow to the Dover Straits 1916-1918''] 1935. Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015027341687?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Episodes of the Great War''] by John Buchan. First published March 1938. HathiTrust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Consists of selections from John Buchan's ''History of the Great War'' (4 vols.), (available online, see [[First World War#History series and periodical publications|History series and periodical publications]], below.) Covers the important naval operations of the war.
*''Sea Fights of the Great War: Naval incidents during the first nine months'' by W L Wyllie and MF Wren 1918. [https://archive.org/details/seafightsgreatw00wrengoog/page/n10 Better quality text but missing illustrations], [https://archive.org/details/cihm_991931/page/n9 digitised microfilm with illustrations] (but not good quality) Archive.org.
:[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/underblackensign00gwat/page/n7/mode/2up ''Under the Black Ensign''] by Captain R S Gwatkin-Williams (Rupert Stanley) 1922. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924027832421/page/n7/mode/1up Map: Murman Coast 1916-1917] [northwest Russia] from a 2nd file, rotated. Archive.org. "…all those little ships of the late war Navy - destroyers, tugs, trawlers, boarding steamers, and the like".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210703/page/n3/mode/2up ''My Mystery Ships''] by Rear Admiral Gordon Campbell , illustrated by Lieutenant J E Broome, first published 1928 in London. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships00gord/page/n9/mode/2up American edition] 1929, with extra Foreword, and images appear to differ slightly. Both Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/mymysteryships0000camp/mode/2up Archive.org Lending Library version] (American edition), probably best digital file. Also known as Q Ships.
*[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
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