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:*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.
*Other [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/navy.asp Navy Records] held at the National Archives include Officers’ service records (1756-1917) and wills of Royal Naval Seamen (1786-1822). – many of these records can also be searched and downloaded.
*[[findmypast]] , a pay website, includes two associated databases located in Armed forces & conflict/Service Records:"British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919" and "British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records Browse, 1704-1919".These include records from the National Archives series ADM 29 / 1-32, 34-131 – Admiralty: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, coastguard and related services: Officers’ and Ratings’ Service Records (Series II) 1802-1919.
*[[findmypast]] includes two databases located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War
**"Royal Naval Division Casualties 1914-1919". These are death records researched by Jack Marshall. '''Update''': not available at 2018/11, not known if this is a permanent situation. Also available on Ancestry, see further on.
:*"WW1 Naval Casualties". Source unknown. Transcripts, no images.
:*"WW1 Ships Lost At Sea, 1914-1919" sourced from the National Archives WW1 Ship Casualties Card Index series ADM 242/6.
*1911 Census is available on findmypast and Ancestry, both pay websites, and perhaps on other similar sites. For a helpful finding aid, based on the Ancestry databases, which includes census information for Royal Navy personnel overseas and in England and Wales, see [[Stations of British Army troops in India#1911 England and Wales Census|Stations of British Army troops in India - 1911 England and Wales Census]].
*Ancestry (pay website) includes a database "UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960"<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60931 UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960] Ancestry (located in BMD records)</ref> (located in BMD records). This database consists mainly of Naval records, sourced from the National Archives, Kew.
*Ancestry (pay website) includes a database "Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924"<ref>[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1252 Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924] Ancestry</ref>, (Ancestry location Birth, Marriage & Death). These are death records researched by Jack Marshall.
