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==''Navy List''==
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C1886 National Archives Series ADM 177 1914-1945 Admiralty: Navy Lists, Confidential Edition]. During the First and Second World Wars there were two separate editions of the Navy List, one of which was for official use only, the other being an expurgated version available to the public.
*All the online editions which follow are '''likely to be the editions available to the public''' during the First and Second World Wars.
*For links to a selection from 1782 -1945 searchable online see the Fibiwiki page [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_periodicals_online#Navy_List Military Periodicals online- Navy Lists]. The early editions have the title ''Steel's Original and Correct list of the Royal Navy''.
*Online Navy Lists are also available on the website of the National Library of Scotland, NLS, with transcriptions available, together with a Search facility, as [http://digital.nls.uk/93506066 ''Navy List''s: 1913 to 1944]
*The pay website Ancestry has a broken range of editions of the [http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2406 ''Navy List''] from 1888 to 1970. These are searchable by name and linked to relevant page images. The same dataset is also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
*For editions not available online, ''The Navy List'' is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01012418229, from 1815, and also in the Library of the [[The National Archives|National Archives]], from November 1814. For the First and Second World Wars, there were two versions, with the confidential versions available in ADM 177, as Archive records, see above, rather than in the TNA Library.
:The earlier ''Steel's Original and Correct list of the Royal Navy'' is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01001116981 (classified as a Journal) with editions to 1816, with additional catalogue entries classified as a Book). The National Archives has a catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13374272 18th Century Royal Navy Lists 1782, 1790-1799] [Steel's Royal Navy Lists] QLIB 3. National Archives Library. The Lists were published monthly during war and quarterly during peace, and include details of ships of the Honourable East-India Company. Previously it was stated that all years were available as a pay download, however this wording does not currently appear (2019/11).
: The British Library has published a guide: [https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/subjects%20images/government%20publications/pdfs/service-list-army-navy.pdf?la=en "Service Lists for the Army, Navy and Air Force"], including Lists of Ships, from the mid 1600s.
