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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''==
*[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
