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**[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://archive.org/details/creejournalsvoya0000cree ''The Cree journals : the voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N., as related in his private journals, 1837-1856''] edited and with an introduction by Michael Levien 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes ten years in the Far East including the [[1st China War|First Opium War]] period and pursuit of a Chinese pirate fleet in 1849.
*[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
:* "A Naval Brigade In Burma in 1858" (scroll down) by W. B. R. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI no 2, pages 283-288. The destination was the frontier post and Fort at Meaday, on the Irrawaddy. Available as an [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142608/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf archived webpage].
:* "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. Available as an [https://web.archive.org/web/20160803082140/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf archived webpage].
*''The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford'' [https://archive.org/streamdetails/JRNMSVOL4Imagesmemoirsofadmiral0001bere/JRNMS_VOL_4#page/n527n7/mode/2up "The First Commission of HMS Firefly"Volume I] by Staff Surgeon FG Hitch RN ''JRNMS'' , [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofadmiral0002bere/page/n7/mode/2up Volume 4, 1918 II] 1914 Archive.org. One of the 'Fly' class gunboats. Also details of other craft on He was in the river TigrisRoyal Navy 1859-1909.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/mediterraneannav0000halp/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Mediterranean Naval Situation, 1908-1914''] by Paul G. Halpern Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Halpern Paul G. Halpern] Wikipedia. Halpern's later books include publications of the Navy Records Society, (refer External links above) ''The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1915-1918'' (Volume 126, 1987), and ''The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1929'' (Volume 158, 2011). These latter books are available online to NRS members, and also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01010066046 and UIN: BLL01015816949 .
:[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.
*[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 HathiTrust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://wwwarchive.fold3.comorg/details/sea-soldiers/page/browsen15/251mode/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online 2up Archive.org mirror version] (located in International/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint.
*[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/navalfront00maxwuoft ''The Naval Front''] by Gordon S Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB illustrated by Donald Maxwell, Lieut. RNVB 1920 Archive.org. Includes chapters on [[Gallipoli]] and [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]].
*[http://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR <ref> Homercox. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/210056-who-was-conrad-cato/ Who was Conrad Cato?] Great War Forum 9 January 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.</ref> 1917 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato ''The Navy Everywhere''] by Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR] 1919. Archive.org:There was a later 2013 reprint ''The Shallow End of War: Accounts of the Royal Navy in the 'Sideshow' Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18'', consisting of partial content from both books.*[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/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Naval+operations%22&sort=-date&page=1 Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations]
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs World War I ''Naval Staff Monograph''s]. Compiled by the Historical Section of the Training and Staff Duties Division of the Naval Staff from Admiralty records and original papers in the temporary custody of the the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The various volumes are described in a [https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishAdmiraltyStaffMonographs.htm page] from Naval-History.net. Website of the Royal Australian Navy. (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs).
:Includes Volume 2 ''East Africa to July 1915; Cameroons, 1914''; Volume 4: ''Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf''; Volume 5 including ''China Squadron, 1914 (including Emden Hunt)'', and ''East Indies Squadron, 1914'' <ref>gwyrosydd [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/216645-naval-staff-monographs-online/?do=findComment&comment=2239705 Naval Staff Monographs online] ''Great War Forum'' 16 March 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/onfourfrontswith00spar ''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division''] by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. Includes [[Gallipoli]] and [[Salonica]]. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty until 29 April 1916.
:[https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL3Images/page/n481 "With a Royal Marine Battalion in France"] by Temporary Surgeon J N MacBean Ross, Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service'', Vol 3 1917, page 465. [https://liveicomgrshot.blob.core.windows.net/jrnmsfiles/articles/JRNMS_100_(2)_117-122.pdf Commentary on “With a Royal Marine Battalion in France”] Surg Lt Cdr JG Penn-Barwell ''J Royal Naval Medical Service'' 2014, Vol 100.2
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52178355/view#page/n1/mode/2up ''The Royal Naval Division''] by Douglas Jerrold 1923. National Library of Australia. Includes Gallipoli.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143164/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Hawke Battalion. Some Personal Records of Four Years 1914-1918''] by Douglas Jerrold 1925. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/mode/2up ''The True Glory : the Royal Navy, 1914-1939''] by Max Arthur 1996. [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth/page/n7/mode/2up 1997 edition], Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Personal accounts. In two Parts including [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/152/mode/2up "Part Two The Interwar Years 1919-1939"] including
** Account of [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/161/mode/2up "Seaman Gunner Stan Smith", page 161] Smith was held as a prisoner at Baku by the Bolsheviks in very harsh conditions, also referred to as the "Black Hole of Baku". [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-smith-1524828.html "Obituary: Stan Smith"] by G K Johnson 9 Dec. 1995. independent.co.uk . Smith's memoirs of his naval career ''Sea of Memories'' (1985), available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008135156 "read like yarns from Boy's Own".
*[httphttps://www.ibiblioarchive.org/hyperwardetails/blessourship0000bush/page/n5/UNmode/UK2up ''Bless our Ship''] by Captain Eric Wheler Bush, Royal Navy 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/indexLending Library.html British Official Histories: History of the Second World War: The War Born 12 August 1899, he had become a Naval Cadet at Sea]age 12 in 1912, and went to sea at the outbreak of war still aged 14. Many of his classmates on other ships died as a total result of four volumes are describedenemy torpedo action. [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/8599bc65-af1f-38df-b4a8-940cd810f53b Biographical details] archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. HyperwarServed in the Navy to 1948, including East Indies Station from 1922 and China Station late 1920s and again early 1930s. Scroll down for transcriptions of**[https://archive.org/details/navalpolicybetwe0002rosk/mode/2up '''Extracts''' from ''War at Sea 1939-1945, Naval Policy between the Wars Volume 1: II The Defensiveperiod of reluctant rearmament 1930-1939'' ] by SStephen Roskill 1976 Archive. Worg Books to Borrow/Lending Library. (Volume I subtitle Roskill London: HMSO, 1954*:''War at Sea 1939The period of Anglo-1945American antagonism, Volume 2: The Period of Balance1919-1929'' by S. W. Roskill, Spub. W1968. London: HMSO, 1956:The four volumes are available in reprint editions,<ref> [https://wwwbooks.naval-military-pressgoogle.com.au/books?sid=+%22WAR+AT+SEA+1939-45%22++%22OFFICIAL+HISTORY+OF+THE+SECOND+WORLD+WAR+%22sBaODQAAQBAJ&post_typeprintsec=product frontcover Sample pages], Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009930913)*For ''History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series. The War at Sea , 1939-1945 '' by Captain S W Roskill RN, in four volumes] Naval , & Military Press</ref> which in turn are available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com as HMSO 1954-1961, see [[https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ZOGtYexo ''The Second World War#Despatches, Offical histories (UK)|Second World War at Sea''- Despatches, Offical histories (UK)]], located in International/Military Books/ Britain/. Scroll to letter Tdown.
*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-ii-naval-staff-histories World War II Naval Staff Histories] Eight volumes including ''Naval Operations off Ceylon''. Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
:[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/hm-ships-damaged-or-sunk-enemy-action-wwii BR 1886 (C.B. 4273 (52) ''H.M. Ships Damaged or Sunk by Enemy Action 3 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945''] Based on reports held in the Admiralty at the time of its publication in 1952. A publication in the Navy Department: Reference Books (BR Series). Website of the Royal Australian Navy.
*'''Also see [[First World War]], including [[First World War#Naval|First World War - Historical books online - Naval]], and the various Fronts linked from that page, and [[Second World War]]'''.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22JRNMS%22&sort=date ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service''], published from Volume 1, 1915. Archive.org. Originally published quarterly, bound in yearly volumes. Each quarterly issue contains “News of the Service” with Honours, promotions, appointments, relevant Admitalty Admiralty Orders etc. There is an Index at the back of each yearly volume which includes page numbers for each "News of the Service".*[https://archive.org/details/medalsofbritishn00longrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won : with a list of those officers, who for their gallant conduct were granted honorary swords and plate by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund''] by W H Long 1895 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
*[http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19694 ''1919. Signal Letters of British Ships (formerly the British Code List) for the use of ships at sea, and for signal stations''] Prepared by Charles H Jones, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Published for the Committee of Lloyd’s. Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative (DAI). Direct link for [http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/cns/Signal_Letters.pdf pdf download]. [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/19586 Page xx] is titled "Ships belonging to the War Department..."
