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*[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. Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ejusT5Z7AMC&pg=PR1 ''The Ship-master's Assistant and Owner's Manual: Containing Complete Information, as Well to Merchants, Masters of Ships, and Persons Employed in the Merchant-service, as to Officers and Others in the Royal Navy, Relative to the Mercantile and Maritime Laws and Customs''] by David Steel. 9th Edition Very Considerably Improved and Enlarged 1801 Google Books.
*''The Royal Navy: a history from the earliest times to the present'' by Sir Wm. Laird Clowes. Volume VII has title ''The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria''. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory01clow ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory02clow ''Volume II''],
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory03clow ''Volume III''] 1898. Covers the period 1714-1792. [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavyhistory03clow#page/580/mode/2up/search/India Index entry East India]
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy for the Year 1871''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 46'' 1873. Google Books.
*:Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218 "East India Station"], page 218, with [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218-IA1 Map of East India Station], and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aS8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261 "China Station"] page 261
*Cover title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i45eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''A Naval Cadet with H.M.S. Shannon Brigade in India: Journal of Edward Spencer Watson'']. Title page ''Journal. India: with H.M.S. "Shannon", Naval Brigade, from August 18th, 1858''. Note however, there appears to be a typographical error, as correct date should be 1857. Catalogued as published 1858. Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A7XMfkemThoC&pg=PR5 ''The Shannon's Brigade in India: being some account of Sir William Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858''] by Edmund Hope Verney, Lieut. R.N. 1862 Google Books
**Also see Fiction below for a novel, ''The Devil's Wind'' by Maj. Gen.G.L. Verney, concerning the Shannon's Brigade.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Navy Estimates''] ''Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 35'' 1863. Google Books. Includes
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109 "China"]
**[https://archive.org/stream/ReviewOfGermanCruiserWarfare19141918#page/n22/mode/1up Page 17]. German Cruiser "Wolf" was ordered to lay mines off various Indian ports.
*''Der Kreuzerkrieg in den ausländischen Gewässern'', published 1922 - 1937, part of the [https://www.navy-history.com/der-krieg-zur-see-1914-1918/ official series ''Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918''] German language. [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi01raed ''Volume 1'']; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi02raed ''Volume 2''] which includes the Indian Ocean; [https://archive.org/details/derkreuzerkriegi03raed ''Volume 3'']. The latter includes [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/236/mode/2up "S M Hilfskreuzer Wolf"] page 237 with [https://archive.org/stream/derkreuzerkriegi03raed#page/259/mode/1up Map of mines around Bombay, laid 19/20 January 1917 by Wolf] Archive.org. Note, there was a 2nd, revised version of Volume 1, published in 1927 which possibly also includes Volume 2 as one volume.
'''Fiction'''
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 Archive.org version]. An account of the actions of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Shannon,which participated in the Relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 told through the eyes of a very young sailor.
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