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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.
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*A great number of service records for seamen who joined the '''Royal Navy''' between 1853 and 1928 are now online and can be searched and downloaded at the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/royal-navy-service.asp relevant documents online] section of the [[The National Archives]] website. There is no charge for the initial search but a fee applies to obtain sight of the full record.
:For a list of '''abbreviations''' used in service records, refer External links below.
*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 the following 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.
**"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
*:The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.:*"WW1 Naval Casualties". Source unknown. Transcripts, no images. (A '''possibility''' (as there is an equivalent source for airmen) is Naval & Military Press transcriptions from Admiralty: Naval Casualties ADM 242 which are available as a DVD-ROM ''Sailors Died In The Great War. Royal Naval Other Ranks Deaths 1914-19''. <ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/sailors-died-in-the-great-war-royal-naval-other-ranks-deaths-1914-19-dvd-rom/ ''Sailors Died In The Great War. Royal Naval Other Ranks Deaths 1914-19''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>)
:*"WW1 Ships Lost At Sea, 1914-1919" sourced from the National Archives WW1 Ship Casualties Card Index series ADM 242/6.
*[https://royalnavyrecordsww1.rmg.co.uk Royal Navy: First World War - Lives at Sea] A Royal Museums Greenwich website. A free resource derived mainly from transcriptions by volunteers of service records of Royal Navy officers and ratings who served during the First World War, from TNA records in the series ADM 196 and ADM 188. The database does '''not''' include details of those who served in the Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve or Royal Naval Air Service. As the project progresses more records will be added on a regular basis up to 2021.
*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.
