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A great number of service *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records for seamen /atoz/r.htm who joined the '''National Archives Guides:Browse our research guidance , letter R] Select Royal Navy''' between 1853 and 1923 are now online and can be searched and downloaded at the Royal Navy Personnel. Includes**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonlinerecords/royallooking-navyfor-serviceperson/royalnavyrating1853-1923.asp relevant documents online]section htm Looking for records of a rating in the [[The National Archives]Royal Navy 1853-1923] website. There is no charge for the initial search but a small fee applies to obtain sight of the full record.
Other *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 [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/royal-navy-service.asp Navy Recordsrelevant documents online] held at section of the [[The National Archives include Officers’ service records (1756-1917) and wills of Royal Naval Seamen (1786-1822)]] website. – many There is no charge for the initial search but a small fee applies to obtain sight of these records can also be searched and downloadedthe full record.
===''Navy List''===The Lists were initially published on a monthly basis*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8uYNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=navy+1782&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wts9U7f5OuT17AaQ5YBg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=navy%201782&f=false Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy 1782] googlebooks*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XukNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Navy+List&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dg9U6SvDcPN7Abo34EY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Navy%20List&f=false New Navy List 1843]Googlebooks*Other [http://bookswww.googlenationalarchives.cogov.uk/books?id=reUNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Navy+List&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dg9U6SvDcPN7Abo34EY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Navy%20List&f=false Navy List corrected to December 1847] Googlebooks*[http://books.google.co.ukdocumentsonline/books?id=UuoNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Navy+List&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dg9U6SvDcPN7Abo34EY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Navy%20List&f=false New Navy List January 1849] Googlebooks*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pOsNAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=navy+lists&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xYw9U6_FIMiqhQePuIDQAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=navy%20lists&f=false The New Navy List February 1854] Googlebooks. *[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0oTM9123FpAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Navy+List&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Otc9U6ioKMWp7AbOhoGgDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=asp Navy%20List&f=false Navy List corrected to December 1864Records] Googlebooks*[http://booksheld at the National Archives include Officers’ service records (1756-1917) and wills of Royal Naval Seamen (1786-1822).google.co– many of these records can also be searched and downloaded.uk/books?id=ae4NAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Navy+List&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xdg9U5LkKajX7Aa34YHIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Navy%20List&f=false Navy List corrected to December 1872]Googlebooks
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==Records==
==''Navy List''==*For links to a selection from 1782 -1945 searchable online see [http://archivewiki.fibis.org/searchindex.php?query=collection%3Anlsnavylists&sort=/Military_periodicals_online#Navy_List Military Periodicals online-publicdate Navy Lists], in respect *The pay website Ancestry has a broken range of the Royal Navy, from the collection editions of the [http://archivesearch.ancestry.co.orguk/detailssearch/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archivedb.orgaspx?dbid=2406 ''Navy List'']<br>from 1888 to 1970. These are searchable by name and linked to relevant page images. ==Medal Rolls==Currently Free downloads of the Naval Medal Rolls are available (at April 2012)from the National Archives website, noting that or the dates same information is available on some editions are not included in the title, are:*1913 March-December (no dates shown in titles):*1914 January-December:*1915-1917 January, April, July, October:*1918 January, April, July, December:*1919 January-March, June-Decemberpay website Ancestry. See the page [[Medal Rolls]] for details.:*1920 January, February-December (no dates shown in titles):*1921 January (no date shown in title):*1939 February- September, December:*1940 February-July, October, December:*1941 April, June, August, October:*1942 February, April, June, August, October, December:*1943 February, April, June, August, October, December:*1944 February, April, June, October:*1945 January, April, July
==External links==
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/ancestors/navy.htm Military Ancestors: Royal Navy] from the National Archives' British Battles
*[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Naval: Late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History Index] from [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/ pbenyon.plus.com]
*[http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=hist_fac_pubs "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918"] by Timothy D. Saxon ''Naval War College Review'' Winter 2000, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p62 . Website of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
==Historical books online==
*[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. googlebooks
*[http://www.naval-review.com/pastiss.asp 1913-2009 issues of ''The Naval Review'', Journal of the Naval Society]. Browse the Contents page for each issue, or there is an Index of articles 1913-1976. Pdf downloads. 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. “
**[http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf "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.
*''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)
:[https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog Volume II], includes Gallipoli. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV] , includes Mesopotamia. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2985875?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume V]
*[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
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs [''World War I<nowiki>]</nowiki> Naval Staff Monographs]''. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). Includes ''Volume 2 East Africa to July 1915; Cameroons, 1914''. ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf''. The unnumbered volume includes ''East Indies Squadron, 1914'' <ref>gwyrosydd [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=216645&p=2239705 Naval Staff Monographs online] ''Great War Forum'' 16 March 2015, Retrieved 16 March 2015</ref>
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