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:''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://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA425342 ''Q-Ships of the Great War''] by Barbara J Coder a research paper April 2000. dtic.mil
:[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, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59017 Archive.org version].
*[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://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Naval+operations%22&sort=-date&page=1 Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations]
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''[World War I<nowiki>]</nowiki> Naval Staff Monographs]''. Compiled by the Historical Section of the Training and Staff Duties Division of the Naval Staff from Admiralty records and original papers in the temporary custody of the the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Website of the Royal Australian Navy. (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). Includes ''Volume 2 East Africa to July 1915; Cameroons, 1914''. ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf''. The unnumbered volume includes ''East Indies Squadron, 1914'' <ref>gwyrosydd [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=216645&p=2239705 Naval Staff Monographs online] ''Great War Forum'' 16 March 2015, Retrieved 16 March 2015</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/onfourfrontswith00spar ''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division''] by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. Includes [[Gallipoli]] and [[Salonica]]. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty until 29 April 1916.
**[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. A China Sea Captain, during WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden which attacked oil tanks at Madras [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/52/mode/2up page 51]. He was later a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra. [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJulius_Lauterbach&edit-text=&act=url Julius Lauterbach] [1877-1937] Wikipedia Google Translate English version, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Lauterbach Original German version].
====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.
