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*[https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Naval Reserve''] by Frank C Bowen 1926 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. WW1 period commences around [https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/102/mode/2up page 104].
*[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 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/fromsnottytosub00foreiala/page/n5 ''From Snotty to Sub''] [by W. B. C. W. Forester, edited by E. L. Forester] 1918 Archive.org. For another book by this author, see [[Gallipoli]].
*[https://archive.org/details/bysealandsomenav00kennrich/page/n7 ''By Sea and Land : Some Naval Doings''] by E Hilton Young, MP, Lieutenant Commander RNVR 1920 Archive.org . Book is catalogued under the surname Kennet - he became Lord Kennet from 1935. Includes a chapter on the British Naval Mission to Serbia in 1915, and a chapter on Archangel, northern Russia, from July 1918, where Young was appointed in command of an armoured train. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Young,_1st_Baron_Kennet Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet] Wikipedia.
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*[https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Fighting at Jutland : the Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet''] April 1921. There was also an abridged edition with a similar title about [https://archive.org/details/fightingatjutlan0000fawc_a1w6/page/n5/mode/2up ''Forty-five Officers and Men''] published September 1921. Both 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/fleetfromwithinb00moserichhistoryofroyalna0000bowe/page/n7n5/mode/2up ''The Fleet from WithinHistory of the Royal Naval Reserve''] by Frank C Bowen 1926 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. WW1 period commences around [https://archive.org/details/historyofroyalna0000bowe/page/102/mode/2up page 104]. Being the impressions of a R*[http://hdl. Nhandle. Vnet/2027/wu. R89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. officerA Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919''] . Compiled by Sydney A Moseley 1919 ArchiveGeneral Sir H.orgE. Moseley was a journalistBlumberg, (brief details<ref>Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [httphttps://thediaryjunctionwww.blogspotfold3.com/2011browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint.*[https://archive.org/details/12submarineantisub00newbuoft/page/sawn9 ''Submarine and Anti-television.html "Saw television!"submarine''] by Paul K Lyons December 5, 2011 Henry Newbolt 1918 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/paravaneadventur00corn/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Diary ReviewParavane Adventure''<] by L. Cope Cornford [1919]. Archive.org. :[https://en.wikipedia.org/ref>wiki/Paravane_(weapon) Paravane (weapon), see his book on [[Gallipoli#General histories etc|Gallipoli]] (Wikipedia) was an device used against naval mines and submarines . It was "essentially an aeroplane". The Paravane fitted to merchant vessels was called the Otter.
*Books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR :
:[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://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074797567?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Danger Zone; the Story of the Queenstown Command''] 1934 Hathi Trust HathiTrust 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.
:Also see [[Gallipoli]] and [[East Africa (First World War)]].
*[https://archive.org/details/submarineantisub00newbuoft/page/n9 ''Submarine and Anti-submarine''] by Henry Newbolt 1918 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/paravaneadventur00cornraidersofdeep00thom/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Paravane AdventureRaiders of the Deep''] by L. Cope Cornford [1919]Lowell Thomas 1928. Archive.org. :[https:/Books to Borrow/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravane_(weapon) Paravane (weapon)] (Wikipedia) was an device used against naval mines and submarines . It was "essentially an aeroplane". The Paravane fitted to merchant vessels was called the OtterLending Library.
*[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.
*''The Dover Patrol, 1915-1917'' by Admiral Sir Reginal Bacon [1918] [https://archive.org/details/doverpatrol1915101baco Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/doverpatrol1915102baco Volume II]. Archive.org. A later edition was published 1932, which although titled ''The Concise Story of the Dover Patrol'', included much new and additional material.
:[https://archive.org/details/doverpatrolstrai00bennuoft ''The Dover Patrol : the Straits, Zeebrugge, Ostend : including a Narrative of the Operations in the Spring of 1918''] by Jackstaff (J J Bennett) 1919 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/fromsnottytosub00foreiala/page/n5 ''From Snotty to Sub''] [by W. B. C. W. Forester, edited by E. L. Forester] 1918 Archive.org. For another book by this author, see [[Gallipoli]].
*[https://archive.org/details/fleetfromwithinb00moserich/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Fleet from Within. Being the impressions of a R. N. V. R. officer''] by Sydney A Moseley 1919 Archive.org. Moseley was a journalist, (brief details<ref>[http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2011/12/saw-television.html "Saw television!"] by Paul K Lyons December 5, 2011 ''The Diary Review''</ref>), see his book on [[Gallipoli#General histories etc|Gallipoli]].
*[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/bysealandsomenav00kennrich/page/n7 ''By Sea and Land : Some Naval Doings''] by E Hilton Young, MP, Lieutenant Commander RNVR 1920 Archive.org . Book is catalogued under the surname Kennet - he became Lord Kennet from 1935. Includes a chapter on the British Naval Mission to Serbia in 1915, and a chapter on Archangel, northern Russia, from July 1918, where Young was appointed in command of an armoured train. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Young,_1st_Baron_Kennet Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet] Wikipedia.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/brasshatsbellbot0000carr/page/n7/mode/2up ''Brass Hats and Bell-Bottomed Trousers; Unforgettable and Splendid Feats of the Harwich Patrol. Being Volume Two of 'By Guess and by God'''] by William Guy Carr 1939. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwich_Force Harwich Force] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16218?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''We Dive at Dawn''] by Lt.-Com. Kenneth Edwards 1941. HathiTrust Digital Library. About Submarines. Missing Contents page, but includes a description of the Illustrations, which gives some idea of the Contents. (Gallipoli etc pages 110-182).
*[https://archive.org/details/blessourship0000bush/page/n5/mode/2up ''Bless our Ship''] by Captain Eric Wheler Bush, Royal Navy 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 12 August 1899, he had become a Naval Cadet at age 12 in 1912, and went to sea at the outbreak of war still aged 14. Many of his classmates on other ships died as a result of enemy torpedo action. [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/8599bc65-af1f-38df-b4a8-940cd810f53b Biographical details] archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Served in the Navy to 1948.
*[https://archive.org/details/sailorswar1914180000lidd/mode/2up ''The Sailor's War, 1914-18''] by Peter H Liddle 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/uboatwars19161940000terr/mode/2up ''The U-Boat Wars, 1916-1945''] by John Terraine. 1989. [https://archive.org/details/uboatwars19161940000terr_a4x8/page/n3/mode/2up File 2, 1990 edition]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
