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Also see [[Military periodicals online]] for details of ''Navy List''s, also see above, and publications such as ''Army and Navy Gazette'', ''Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine'' and ''Naval & Military Gazette''.
====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://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''],
:[http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+] (pbenyon.plus.com) also contains extracts of additional Admiralty Instructions.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Navy+records+society%22%29&sort=-date&page=1 Publications of the Navy Records Society]. Multiple volumes, from a Search using key words "Navy Records Society", from Volume 1, 1894, to 1926, some of which are catalogued according to year of publication, not specific title. Archive.org. There may be additional volumes catalogued by title. Refer External links above, for the Navy Records Society, whose website contains details of its publications.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5pdkLC95UfsC&pg=PR1 ''A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.''] by Edward Ives, formerly Surgeon of Admiral Watson’s Ship, and of His Majesty’s Hospital in the East Indies 1773 Google Books. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/502897 Pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.502897 Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/505275 ''The Navy In India 1763-1783''] by Herbert W. Richmond 1931. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Digital Public Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505275 Archive.org version]Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40609/page/n7 ''Travels in India Ceylon and Borneo''] by Captain Basil Hall RN, FRS, Selected and edited by Professor H G Rawlinson 1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Selected from ''Fragments of Voyages and Travels'' (in nine volumes). Captain Hall was appointed to the East India Station in 1812.
*''Report on the Health of the Navy''. Title varied. Initially titled ''Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy'', and some editions possibly may have been titled ''Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy''. Also ''A Statistical Return of the Health of the Royal Navy''. Later titles may have omitted ''Statistical''. It appears to have been published generally annually from 1830, through to c 1936 by HMSO [His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office] and also presented to the House of Commons as a Parliamentary Paper.
**[http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC1008939/pdf/brjindmed00111-0024.pdf "The health of the Navy: the changing pattern"] by FP Ellis ''Brit. J. Industr. Med''., 1969, 26, 190-201. pubmedcentralcanada.ca
**[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
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LtoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA318 "A Fight with Pirates in the China Seas] [c early-mid 1850s] by J. D. B. pages 318-322 ''The United Service Magazine 1878, Part 2'' Google Books
*"The Marines at Canton, The Peiho, and Pekin" [1856-1860] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92 Pages 92-103], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HtsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA197 pages 197-202] ''The United Service Magazine 1876 Part 1'' Google Books
*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
:[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.$b745995?urlappend=%3Bseq=9''Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59017 pdf to download] Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59017 Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b742756?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Seas of Adventures: the Story of the Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Aegean''] [1914-1918] 1936 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011947036?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''"Severn's" Saga''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library. HMS Severn in East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/pushingwater00dawsrich ''Pushing Water''] by Eric P Dawson, Lieutenant, RNVR. 1918 Archive.org. The Auxiliary Motor Boat Patrol, also known as the Mosquito Fleet.
*[https://archive.org/details/doverduringdarkd00coxorich ''Dover during the Dark Days''] by a "Dug-Out" (Lieut.-Commander Stanley W Coxon RNVR). With contributions by other officers of the Dover Patrol. 1919 Archive.org. A volume in the ''On Active Service'' Series.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint. Also available [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/Britains-Sea-Soldiers-A-History-of-the-Royal-Marines-1914-1919/HTML/index.asp#/2/zoomed lib.militaryarchive.co.uk], which requires Flash turned on (click if you see a Flash icon).
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/heroicrecordofbr00hurd ''The Heroic Record of the British Navy; a Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918''] by Archibald Hurd and H H Bashford 1919 Archive.org
====Fiction====
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/in.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection. [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 appears to be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [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>
