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**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/royalnavyrating1853-1923.htm Looking for records of a rating in the Royal Navy 1853-1923]
*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 relevant documents online]section of the [[The National Archives]] website. There is no charge for the initial search but a small fee applies to obtain sight of the full record. **A new free-to-search database resource [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-project-to-launch-with-the-national-maritime-museum-and-the-crew-list-index-project/ Royal Navy First World War Lives at Sea], based principally on service records held by The National Archives, is due to be launched in mid June 2016.
*Other [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/navy.asp 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.
==''Navy List''==
*For links to a selection from 1782 -1945 searchable online see the Fibiwiki page [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_periodicals_online#Navy_List Military Periodicals online- Navy Lists]*Navy Lists are also available on the website of the National Library of Scotland, NLS, with transcriptions available, together with a Search facility, as [http://digital.nls.uk/93506066 ''Navy List''s: 1913 to 1944]*The pay website Ancestry has a broken range of editions of the [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2406 ''Navy List''] from 1888 to 1970. These are searchable by name and linked to relevant page images.
==Medal Rolls==
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavy06clow ''Volume VI''] 1901. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavy06clow#page/222/mode/2up "Military History of the Royal Navy 1816-1856"] page 222
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavy07clow ''Volume VII]'' 1903. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavy07clow#page/90/mode/2up "Military History of the Royal Navy 1857-1900"] page 91
*[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://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/502897 Pdf download], Digital Library of India, possibly a reprint edition.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/505275 ''The Navy In India 1763-1783''] by Herbert W. Richmond 1931. Pdf download, Digital Library of India,
*[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.“
