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**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.
*[[findmypast]] includes two associated databases located in Armed forces & conflict/Service Records
:"British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919" and "British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records Browse, 1704-1919".These include records from the National Archives series ADM 29 / 1-32, 34-131 – Admiralty: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, coastguard and related services: Officers’ and Ratings’ Service Records (Series II) 1802-1919.
*[[findmypast]] includes two databases located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War
:"Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1919"
:"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
:The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
*[http://www.fleetairarm.com/royal-navy-royal-marines-services-records.aspx Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service Records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum]. The FAA Museum is located at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset (also known as HMS Heron). The FAA Museum generally does not hold records of service for those who enlisted after about 1925, which are still held in the custody of the Ministry of Defence
===Merchant Navy===*[http://www.fleetairarm.com[findmypast]] includes the following databases located in Education & work/royal-Merchant navy& maritime**Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1918-royal-marines-services-1941. National Archives recordsBT 348, BT 349, BT 350 and BT 364.aspx Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service Records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum]Images. The FAA Museum is located at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, (also known as HMS Heron). The FAA Museum generally does not hold Some records of service for those who enlisted after about 1925, which are still held in the custody of the Ministry of Defenceinclude photographs**[http://searchEngland & Wales Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913.findmypastTranscripts and some images.co.uk/search-world-records/royal-naval-division-records-1914Includes Lascars**Ireland Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1863-1919 Royal Naval Division Records 1914-1919] on [[Findmypast|findmypast]]1921. The RND transferred Images of the original records from the authority National Archives of Ireland. Crew members were not only from Ireland but also from around the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916world.
==''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==
==External links==
*[http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.Net] "Preserving Naval History Research and Memoirs ..... making Contemporary Accounts more readily available". All periods including WW1 and WW2.
*[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://www.1914-1918.net/63div.htm The 63rd (Royal Naval) Division in 1914-1918]. 1914-1918.net. The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
*[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.
*[http://www.navyrecords.org.uk Navy Records Society]. The Navy Records Society publishes in print and online rare and original documents on naval history. A subscription gives access to Digital volumes. Some sample pages from a book published by the Navy Records Society: Vol. 158 (2011),[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_AmiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929''] edited by Paul Halpern. Google Books.
===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
:[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://archive.org/details/kingsregulations01greaiala ''The King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the Government of His Majesty's Naval Service, Volume I''] HMSO 1913, reprinted 1916. Archive.org**[https://archive.org/stream/kingsregulations01greaiala#page/163/mode/1up "Regulation 553: Beards and Moustaches"] page 163*[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://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/502897 Pdf download], Digital Library of India, possibly a reprint edition.*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.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 2005 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.“ The website Naval-History.Net, refer above, contains an index of articles relating to WW1.
**[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.
**[http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf "The Tigris Above Baghdad"] by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 ''The Naval Review'' February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
*[https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL4Images/JRNMS_VOL_4#page/n527/mode/2up "The First Commission of HMS Firefly"] by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN ''JRNMS'' Volume 4, 1918 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on the river Tigris.
*''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]. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
:''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]
*First World War 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 Digital Library.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b745995?urlappend=%3Bseq=9''Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59017 pdf to download] Digital Library of India.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library. HMS Severn in East Africa.
*[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.
*[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/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/navalfront00maxwuoft ''The Naval Front''] by Gordon S Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB illustrated by Donald Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB 1920 Archive.org. Includes chapters on [[Gallipoli]] and [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]].
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52178355/view#page/n1/mode/2up ''The Royal Naval Division''] by Douglas Jerrold 1923. National Library of Australia. Includes Gallipoli.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22JRNMS%22&sort=-date&page=3 ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service''] from Volume 1, 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
'''German Navy'''
*[https://archive.org/details/ReviewOfGermanCruiserWarfare19141918 ''Review Of German Cruiser Warfare, 1914-1918''] British Government report 1940. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/ReviewOfGermanCruiserWarfare19141918#page/n22/mode/1up Page 17]. German Cruiser "Wolf" was ordered to lay mines off various Indian ports.
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