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'''====Civilians in the First World War'''====
'''====German Navy'''====
'''====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 mirror 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.*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. :[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Odyssey''] by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitious) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in the events in Turkey during the 1920s, and the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. :The author was in the Royal Navy from 1917 and became Lieutenant-Commander in 1929, retired/was dismissed in 1933 and then served in WW2. ''In Good Company'', published 1947 is a memoir about his WW2 service. His navy service is [http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersW5.html here] scroll down to his entry. unithistories.com
→Historical books online
***Ceylon [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Trincomalee.htm# RNAS Trincomalee]; [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Colombo_Racecourse.htm# RNAS Colombo Racecourse]
===Historical books online===
====General====
*[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://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
*[http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19694 ''1919. Signal Letters of British Ships (formerly the British Code List) for the use of ships at sea, and for signal stations''] Prepared by Charles H Jones, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Published for the Committee of Lloyd’s. Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative (DAI). Direct link for [http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/Signal_Letters.pdf pdf download]. [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19586 Page xx] is titled "Ships belonging to the War Department..."
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918. Archive.org The author, who was retiring from [[Thailand|Siam]], was a passenger on a Japanese ship "Hitachi Maru" which was captured by the "Wolf" (see next section) on 26 September 1917, two days after leaving Colombo.
*[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.
*''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.
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