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***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]
*[http://www.thisismast.org/research/royal-navy-loss-list.html Royal Navy Loss List] Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust. Includes a link to a database to search or download.
===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://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf "The Tigris Above Baghdad"] by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 ''The Naval Review'' February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
*[https://archive.org/stream/JRNMSVOL4Images/JRNMS_VOL_4#page/n527/mode/2up "The First Commission of HMS Firefly"] by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN ''JRNMS'' Volume 4, 1918 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on the river Tigris.
*[https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsinroya00scotuoft ''Fifty Years in the Royal Navy''] by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Includes Naval gunnery, [[3rd China War|the Boxer Rising]], the China Station and WW1.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org and Hathi Trust (Vol. V): [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog Volume II], includes Gallipoli. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV] , includes Mesopotamia. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2985875?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume V]. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
:''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]
====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.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat. : Note, this may be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe.[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref> :[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Odyssey''] by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published c 1936. 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. A publisher's note about the book says. "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified to write a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy".<ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19360427-1.2.78?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article Publisher's Note [about ''Naval Odyssey''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] ''Morning Tribune'', 27 April 1936, Page 15. nlb.gov.sg. </ref>
: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
