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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/atoz/r.htm National Archives Guides:Browse our research guidance , letter R] Select Royal Navy and Royal Navy Personnel. Includes
**[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 project [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 being undertaken, with the aim of completing the project by November 2018.
:"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 , part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, 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. *[http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-b-royal-navy Research guides: The Royal Navy] Royal Museums Greenwich. Includes [http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-b1-royal-navy-tracing-people%20 "Research guide B1: The Royal Navy: Tracing people"] and [http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-b3-royal-navy-sources-enquiries "Research guide B3: The Royal Navy: Sources for enquiries"].
===Merchant Navy===
==Medal Rolls==
Free downloads of the Naval Medal Rolls are available from the National Archives website, or the same information is available on the pay website Ancestry. See the page [[Medal Rolls]] for details.
==Also see==
*[[Maritime Service]]
==External links==
*[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. Select Books, for details of the publications, including ''The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58'' (1947) and ''The Second China War, 1856-1860'' (1954). Some sample pages from Volume 158 (2011), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_AmiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929''] edited by Paul Halpern. Google Books. Some of the earlier publications are available online, refer below.
*[https://www.nmrn.org.uk/shore-establishments Naval Shore Establishments] The National Museum of the Royal Navy. Includes India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indies_and_China_Station East Indies and China Station] Wikipedia. In existence 1831 to 1865, until separated into two separate stations. Rejoined in 1941 to form the Eastern Fleet.
**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indies_Station East Indies Station] Wikipedia. The East Indies Station had bases in [[Ceylon]] at Colombo and Trincomalee, and at [[Bombay (City)|Bombay]], Basra and [[Aden]].
