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*[https://archive.org/details/myancestorwasinr0000wall/mode/2up ''My Ancestor was in the Royal Navy''] by Ian H Waller 2014, published by Society of Genealogists. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. As this book was published 2014, it includes only limited information about online sources. An earlier guide is :[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourfamil0000duff ''Tracing your family history : Royal Navy''] compiled by Allison E Duffield, edited by Sarah Paterson, 2nd edition 2005, published by Imperial War Museum, London. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Noting date of publication, current online sources will not be covered.*[httphttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides-keywords/?show=keywords&keyword-letter=r National Archives Guides: A-Z index, letter R] Select guides relating to the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Naval Division and Royal Marines. Includes**[httphttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-navy-ratings-service-records-1853-1928/ Royal Navy ratings 1853-1928]**If a rating entered the Royal Navy after 1928, or a Royal Navy officer entered after May 1917, his record will still be with the Ministry of Defence. For details of how to access a record from the MOD, see the equivalent Fibiwiki section [[British Army#Army personnel serving after January 1921|British Army - Army personnel serving after January 1921]], and select information in the links provided relating to the Royal Navy. Note that it is now possible to apply online for Royal Navy records, using a debit or credit card (not currently (2022/04/30) available for British Army records). :National Archives Guide [https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-armed-forces/ How to look for records of... Births, marriages and deaths in the armed forces] Includes Royal Navy. Also see [[Chaplains Returns]] which includes some (limited) references to Naval records.:[https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofhumanities/history/researchcentres/centreformaritimehistoricalstudies/Naval_Records.pdf '' A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK''] edited by Randolph Cock and N A M Rodger. 383 pages. 2nd Edition 2008, first published 2006. Published by University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of Historical Research in conjunction with The National Archives of the UK.
*National Archives Blog [https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/by-sea-by-land-royal-marine-attestation-and-discharge-records/ "‘By Sea, By Land’: Royal Marine attestation and discharge records"] by Dr George Hay 13 June 2019.
:[https://archive.org/details/royalmarinesregisternumbers "Royal Marines Register Numbers"] from 1885 by Major Alastair Donald RM. Archive.org. Applies to "other ranks".
*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. *[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/Records_page.htm Information about access to service records of members of the of Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service, and the Royal Marines] royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk. *[findmypast[Findmypast]], a pay website, includes two associated databases located in Armed forces & conflict/Service Records. (Under the tab "Search records" is a category [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "A-Z of record sets"] which is a listing of all the record databases).
:"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.
:'''Update''' c 18 November 2022. This database has been extended to 1939 and includes ADM 362 - Royal Navy Registers of Seaman's Services, 1925-1929 and ADM 363 - Royal Navy Seamen's Services Continuous Record cards, 1929-1950.*[[Findmypast]] datasets "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births, Marriages, Deaths", three separate Index databases (located within BMD), contain at least some naval records, (but perhaps limited); check the findmypastrecord pages for details of the coverage. For more details about these databases, see [[Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|Chaplains Returns]].*[[Findmypast]] includes the following databases located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War
**"Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920"
*:The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916. However, it appears to have remained structurally as part of the Royal Navy as entries continued to appear in the ''Navy List'', not the ''Army List''.
:*"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.
*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.
*Ancestry released 3 October 2018, the first stage of records in the database "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923",<ref>[https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61588 "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923"] Ancestry.</ref> (located in Military), which are index records, with the images available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3,<ref>[https://www.fold3.com/browse/250/h-gceWkCT "UK, WWI Pension Ledgers, 1914-1923"] fold3.</ref> (which requires an Ancestry All Access subscription, or a separate fold3 subscription). The first released records relate to '''Naval''' and '''Mercantile Marine''' explained in the WFA article [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/october-2018/release-of-naval-and-mercantile-marine-pension-records-by-ancestry/ "Release of Naval and Mercantile Marine Pension Records by Ancestry"] October 2018.
*See [http://www.fleetairarm.com/royal-navy-royal-marines-services[Chaplains Returns#External links|Chaplains Returns -External links]] for details of the website "deceased online" which has some naval recordsfrom the UK under the title "UK and overseas garrisons; Registers of burials".aspx *Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service Records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum]. The FAA Museum, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, is located at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset (also known as HMS Heron). The FAA Museum generally does not hold records of service for those who enlisted after about 1925, which are still held in the custody of the Ministry of Defence.Currently (2023/03) [https::'''Update''' December 2018//www.nmrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/Researching_Naval_Personnel.pdf "Researching Naval Personnel"] (nmrn.org.uk) has some details of the records held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The A [https://web.archive.org/web/20220928072753/http://www.fleetairarm.com/navalroyal-navy-royal-marines-aviationservices-researchrecords.aspx Archive & Research Centre previous webpage] is closed, as its staff are working elsewherenow archived, has more details, including details of some records at The National Archives, Kew. [https://www.nmrn.org.uk/index.php/collections Collections](nmrn. This means records cannot currently be requestedorg. This could be uk) scroll to, and open "How can I view the situation until perhaps collections" gives details of visiting the end of 2020Fleet Air Arm Museum research room (twice a month) and Digitisation on Demand charges.*[httphttps://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researcherscollections/research-guides/research-guide-b-royal-navy Research guides: The Royal Navy] Royal Museums Greenwich. Includes [httphttps://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researcherscollections/research-guides/research-guide-b1-royal-navy-tracing-people%20 "Research guide B1: The Royal Navy: Tracing people"] and [httphttps://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researcherscollections/research-guides/research-guide-b3-royal-navy-sources-enquiries "Research guide B3: The Royal Navy: Sources for enquiries"].*[https://memorials.rmg.co.uk Maritime Memorials] in respect of ships’ crews’ deaths, both Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, from all around the world, including UK. Search for entries for India, Burma, Burmah and Myanmar, Ceylon and Sri Lanka, and other countries such as China, Singapore etc. (Entries for Karachi were classified as India)<ref> Some entries are listed in [https://web.archive.org/web/20200813063344/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/312109/ Maritime cemetery entries from National Maritime Museum website] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 5 January 2014, now archived. The correct [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year ''Notes and Queries''] reference for the Karachi burials mentioned is either Vol 170/171 1936 or Vol 176 1939.</ref>, or search by name. An associated National Maritime Museum website.*[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/archivesheet66 "Tracing your seafaring ancestors in the Royal Navy"] National Museums Liverpool, Archive Centre Maritime Museum Information Sheet 66, from the page Liverpool Museums/Merseyside Maritime Museum/About/Archives Centre/Information Sheets/Tracing your Ancestors. Mentions the book ''Tracing Your Naval Ancestors'' by Bruno Pappalardo, published in 2003 by the National Archives.*Books by SD and DB Jarvis, originally published 1993, and available in reprint editions. :''The Cross Of Sacrifice. Vol. 2: Officers Who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy, RNR, RNVR, RM, RNAS and RAF, 1914-1919''. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008822978 (Reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/cross-of-sacrifice-vol-2-officers-who-died-in-the-service-of-the-royal-navy-rnr-rnvr-rm-rnas-and-raf-1914-1919/ ''Cross Of Sacrifice. Vol. 2: Officers Who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy, RNR, RNVR, RM, RNAS and RAF, 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press</ref>): ''The Cross Of Sacrifice Vol 4: Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Navy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1914-1921. Including the Commonwealth Navies and Air Forces''. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=x1K-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages], Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006747946 . (Reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/cross-of-sacrifice-vol-4-non-commissioned-officers-and-men-of-the-royal-navy-royal-flying-corps-and-royal-air-force-1914-1919/ ''Cross Of Sacrifice Vol. 4: Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Navy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1914-1919''] (as catalogued) Book cover states 1921. Naval & Military Press</ref>):''The Cross Of Sacrifice Vol. 5: The Officers, men and women of the Merchant Navy and Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914–1919''. This volume additionally contains a 14 page addendum to Volume 4 which is not available separately. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2X2-BAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Sample pages], Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007836149 . (Reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/cross-of-sacrifice-vol-5-the-officers-men-and-women-of-the-merchant-navy-and-mercantile-fleet-auxiliary-1914-1919/ ''Cross Of Sacrifice Vol. 5: The Officers, men and women of the Merchant Navy and Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914–1919''] Naval & Military Press</ref>):The three books are available at The National Archives Library [https://tna.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=2271&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=3023 catalogue entry].
===Merchant Navy===
*Also see [[Births, marriages and deaths at sea]].
*[[findmypast]] includes the following databases located in Education & work/Merchant navy & maritime
**Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1918-1941. National Archives records BT 348, BT 349, BT 350 and BT 364. Images. Some records include photographs
**England & Wales Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913. Transcripts and some images. Includes Lascars
**Ireland Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1863-1921. Images of the original records from the National Archives of Ireland. Crew members were not only from Ireland but also from around the world.
*[http://www.crewlist.org.uk/#top CLIP - the Crew List Index Project]. A not-for-profit volunteer project, with databases of British seafarers and ships records, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
*[http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-c1-merchant-navy-tracing-people-crew-lists Research guide C1: The Merchant Navy : Tracing people – crew lists, agreements and official logs] At the bottom of the page other guides to the Merchant Navy are listed including
:[http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/researchers/research-guides/research-guide-c9-merchant-navy-first-world-war Research guide C9: The Merchant Navy] Find out about merchant ships involved in the First World War. Includes researching crew members, with links to additional guides. Royal Museums Greenwich.
*[https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/sheet/43 archivesheet43 Tracing Seafaring Ancestors In The Merchant Navy] National Museums Liverpool, Archive Centre Maritime Archives & Library Museum Information Sheet 43, dated 2015from the page Liverpool Museums/Merseyside Maritime Museum/About/Archives Centre/Information Sheets/Tracing your Ancestors.*[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourfamil0000unse_d0c7/mode/2up ''Tracing your family history: Merchant Navy''] compiled by Allison E Duffield, edited by Sarah Paterson, 2nd edition 2005, published by Imperial War Museum, London. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Noting date of publication, current online sources will not be covered.*See above, under Records, the book ''The Cross Of Sacrifice Vol. 5: The Officers, men and women of the Merchant Navy and Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914–1919''.
*The book '' Lloyd's War Losses : the First World War : casualties to shipping through enemy causes, 1914-1918'' is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011394103. This is a 1990 facsimile reprint of the original held at Guildhall Library, City of London, now the [[London Metropolitan Archives]].
==''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. Most, perhaps all, are available to download from the National Archives website. In normal circumstances there is a fee charged, however currently (2022/02) due to covid conditions, the downloads are free.*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]
*[http://navylistresearch.co.uk Navy List Research] includes a free Searchable database for many Navy Lists to 1945 with links to some online volumes, mainly on the Archive.org website. navylistresearch.co.uk
*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 full title of the Lists is ''Steel's Original and Correct List of the Royal Navy''. The Lists were published monthly during war and quarterly during peace, and include details of ships of the Honourable East-India Company. All Previously it was stated that all years are 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. This is a download, which you will probably need to locate in your downloads folder. [https://archive.org/details/servicelistsarmynavyairfguide Archive.org version]. The Navy List was mostly a quarterly publication, (with some gaps) but from August 1870 to March 1924 was also published monthly [but most likely not the months when there was a quarterly publication]. From 1949 it became an annual publication. === Mercantile (Merchant) Navy List===*[https://archive.org/details/mercantilenavyli1894grea/page/n20 ''The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory for 1894''] Compiled from Official and Other Sources by J Clark Hall, Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Published for the Committee of Lloyd's. At the head of the title ''By Authority''. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22The+Mercantile+Navy+List%22&sort=date ''The Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Directory for 1925, 1927-1928-1929, 1931-1932-1933 and 1938''] by J Blake Harrold, Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen (initially) and from 1932 Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen. Archive.org. Files are originally from Google Books, see individual Archive.org pages. *[http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/mha_mercant ''Mercantile Navy list and Maritime directory''] Collection from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Broken range from 1868 to 1973. Click on Browse Collection, or use Search*[http://anmm.smedia.com.au/ Vaughan Evans Digital Library] Australian National Maritime Museum. Select Registers of Shipping/ The Mercantile Navy List. 15 volumes from 1862 to 1920.*Online editions are linked from the page [https://www.maritimearchives.co.uk/mercantile-navy-list.html Mercantile Navy List] maritimearchives.co.uk*[https://www.crewlist.org.uk CLIP - the Crew List Index Project] includes a database of the Mercantile Navy List.*For editions not available online, variant titles of ''The Mercantile Navy List'' is are available at the British Library, 1850-1855 UIN: BLL01001109334; 1857-64 UIN: BLL01001109335; 1865-1957 UIN: BLL01001109336; 1958-1976 UIN: BLL01012418229, from 1815, and also in the Library of the [[The National Archives|National Archives]], from November 1814BLL01012919140. Later volumes were published by H.M.S.O.
==Medal Rolls==
*[http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.Net] "Preserving Naval History Research and Memoirs ..... making Contemporary Accounts more readily available". All periods including WW1 and WW2.
*The World War I Document Archive includes a category [http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm The War at Sea] which includes the category Bibliography. A slightly later dated Bibliography than appears on the website is [http://www.gwpda.org/naval/b1b00000.htm WWI Naval Bibliography].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20211018064456/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/ancestors/navy.htm Military Ancestors: Royal Navy] from the National Archives' British Battles, now an archived webpage.
*[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc/Naval.html Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+] sites.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc. Appears to be based on the now archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20190820163725/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20190509023634/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/ pbenyon.plus.com], now archived. Note, the archived version appears to have some additional entries.
*[http://www.godfreydykes.info/ROYAL%20NAVY%20OFFICIAL%20NUMBERS%20%5bRATINGS%5d.htm Royal Navy Official Numbers for Ratings]. There were multiple series of numbers applying from 1894, with changes from 1908, 25 October 1925, 1931, 1934, 1943 and post WW2 changes.
*[https://www.pdavis.nl/Background.htm William Loney RN - Background] information about the Navy in the 1800s. pdavis.nl
*[https://www.maritimefoundation.uk/publications/maritime-2023/the-wavy-navy-a-forgotten-legacy/ "The Wavy Navy: a forgotten legacy"] The history of the RNVR by Cdr Sue Eagles December 1, 2022 maritimefoundation.uk. In the First World War, a large proportion of the RNVR were formed into the Royal Navy Division. Mentions two very good accounts ''Wavy Navy, a collection of writings by members of the RNVR'' (Harrap, 1950) (Second World War) and ''The RNVR: a Record of Achievement'' by Lennox Kerr and Wilfred Granville (Harrap, 1957) (an account of their exploits from the late 19th C to post WW2).*[https://www.rmhistoricalsociety.org Royal Marines Historical Society] which contains a link on its website to the website :[https://rmhistorical.com/home Royal MarinesBadge and Insignia Reference] "Reference , whose purpose “is to provide reference information and research material for those interested in the Royal Marines"Marines”. Use the Search to find articles not directly linked from the website such :*[https://rmhistorical.com/files/content/SHEET%20ANCHOR%20Contents%20Feb%202011.pdf Royal Marines Historical Society Contents List] of Royal Marines Historical Society Newsletter (Precursor of ''The Sheet Anchor'') *:*[https://rmhistorical.com/files/content/RMA%201804-1923.pdf "The Royal Marine Artillery 1804-1923"] by C Montin. An article, from an unnamed journal which appears to have been written c ''Royal Marines Historical Society Newsletter Volume 1 1968-1969''. However, it does not mention the two volume published history ''The Royal Marine Artillery, 1804-1923'' [v.1 1804-1859 v.2 1859-1923] by Edward Fraser and L. G. Carr-Laughton 1930 available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002243960*[http://wwwterryaspinall.royal-marinescom/01%20RM/01%20RM/index.net html Royal Marines] previously www.royal-marines.net , including [http://wwwterryaspinall.royal-marines.netcom/01%20RM/01%20RM/reference.html "Bibliography of the Royal Marines"]*[https://www.greatwarforum.org Great War Forum] includes a category "Ships and navies". [[First World War]] period.
*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/63rd-royal-naval-division/ The 63rd (Royal Naval) Division]. longlongtrail.co.uk. The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.
*[http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=hist_fac_pubs "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918"] by Timothy D. Saxon ''Naval War College Review'' Winter 2000, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p62 . Website of Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
*[http://ww2talk.com/index.php WW2Talk Forum] includes a category "The War at Sea". [[Second World War]] period.
*[https://www.naval-review.com/about-the-naval-review/joining-naval-review/ ''The Naval Review''] publishes four journals each year. Members (subscription required) have access to the Archive of past Journals from 1913, or articles from older journals are available to others for a small administration charge. For more details see Historical books online, below, including a freely available Index of articles to 1930. The public area of the website includes [https://www.naval-review.com/book-reviews/ Book reviews].
:During WWI the Journal was published, but circulation may have been restricted, and information was collected and published after the War. “In World War II there was no censorship, and the regular “Notes on the War at Sea” and "Diary of the War at Sea" are important records of naval events during World War II.“ The website Naval-History.Net, refer above, contains an [http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm index of articles relating to WW1].
:Based on library catalogues, Oxford University Library appears to have an extensive [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014203044&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US set of volumes], (but lacking 1914-1921); Imperial War Museums (LBY E. 5 / 229) some, but missing WW2; British Library UIN: BLL01012090056 ("stock incomplete"); [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/80687c/44NLS_ALMA21574584170004341 National Library of Scotland] catalogue indicates an almost complete set.
*[http://www.navyrecords.org.uk Navy Records Society]. The Navy Records Society publishes in print and online rare and original documents on naval history. A subscription gives access to Digital volumes. Select Books, for details of the publications, including ''The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58'' (1947) (available online, see below) and ''The Second China War, 1856-1860'' (1954). Some sample pages from Volume 158 (2011), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_AmiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929''] edited by Paul Halpern. Google Books. Some of the earlier publications are available online, refer below.
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1328867/John-Winton.html Obituary of John Winton [naval author<nowiki>]</nowiki>], 1931-2001, pen name of Lieutenant-Commander John Pratt. 03 May 2001 ''The Telegraph''. He wrote many books, both non fiction and fiction, relating to the Royal Navy. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winton John Winton] Wikipedia. Contains a list of his books.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220523001847/https://www.nmrn.org.uk/research/service-record-abbreviations Service Record Abbreviations]. Common abbreviations and phrases found in Royal Navy and Royal Marines Service Records from various periods. Archived page, The National Museum of the Royal Navy.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220523000415/https://www.nmrn.org.uk/shore-establishments Naval Shore Establishments] . Archived page, The National Museum of the Royal Navy. Includes India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore. Note: "This list is NOT comprehensive".: In addition, HMS Highfligher was the Royal Naval Base at Trincomalee in Ceylon, commissioned on 1 July 1943.(There was also a East Indies flagship of this name)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071105065331/http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2012 HMS Highflyer – History] lankalibrary.com, now archived.</ref>. There was a Royal Navy Wireless Telegraphy Station at Matara on the very southern tip of Ceylon, (in existence in c 1920).<ref>Drury, James.[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/287722-help-with-service-record/?tab=comments#comment-2969928 help with service record.] ''Great War Forum'' 5 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.</ref>
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indies_and_China_Station East Indies and China Station] Wikipedia. In existence 1831 to 1865, until separated into two separate stations. Rejoined in 1941 to form the Eastern Fleet.
**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Indies_Station East Indies Station] Wikipedia. The East Indies Station had bases in [[Ceylon]] at Colombo and Trincomalee, and at [[Bombay (City)|Bombay]], Basra and [[Aden]].
**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-Chief,_China Commander-in-Chief, China] Wikipedia. Information about China Station. The formation had bases at [[Singapore]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[China|Wei Hai]].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170226055415/http://ellott-postalhistorian.com/articles/Hong-Kong-Station.pdf "The Royal Navy East Indies & China Naval Station: A brief History Including Letters from Officers and Seamen"] by Gerald J. Ellott May 2011. ''Postal History and Philately''.
*Audio: [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000675 Recollections of George Michael Clarkson recorded 1975] Royal Navy 1915-1937. 48 reels. Imperial War Museums Sound, Catalogue number 679. Also [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80020088 Recollections of George Michael Clarkson], Royal Navy, no date, but perhaps c 1975, or possibly later. 4 reels. Imperial War Museums Sound Catalogue number 21283. The first item is part of a series of interviews [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?filters%5BthemeString%5D%5BNaval%20Operations%2C%201900-1919%3A%20Lower%20Deck%2C%201908-1922%5D=on Naval Operations, 1900-1919: Lower Deck, 1908-1922] IWM Sound.
*Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80011685 1990 interview with Henley Charles Claxton] British seaman. Includes service aboard HMS Vindictive on China Station, 1925-1928 Reels 7-9. Catalogue number 11945. In most of the reels there is a delay before the sound commences, of up to approximately one minute. Imperial War Museums.
*[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk <nowiki>www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk</nowiki>]. Use the Search facility to locate items. Includes
**[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/Records_page.htm Information about access to service records of members of the of Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service, and the Royal Marines]
**[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/HMS_Tamar.htm# H M S Tamar, R N Base Hong Kong]
**[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/Cyril%20H%20Poole/default.htm Cyril H H Poole photographs] including Submarines of the 4th Submarine Flotilla based at Hong Kong, Singapore, and Wei Hei Wei
***India: [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Juhu.htm# R N Air Section Juhu] on the coast 7½ miles N. of Bombay city; [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Cochin.htm# R N Air Section Cochin]; [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Tambaram.htm# R N A M Y Tambaram] 13 miles SW. of Madras; [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Vizagapatam.htm# R N Air Section Vizagapatam]
***Ceylon [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Trincomalee.htm# RNAS Trincomalee]; [http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/FAA-Bases/Colombo_Racecourse.htm# RNAS Colombo Racecourse]
*[http://www.rfaa-london.org.uk/app/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/RFA-history-09-origins-of-the-RFA.pdf "A research note on the history of ships, places, organisations and events associated with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA): The origins of the RFA"] by Thomas A Adams
:[https://historicalrfa.uk Historical RFA] Supported by the RFA Association.
*[http://www.thisismast.org/research/royal-navy-loss-list.html Royal Navy Loss List] Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust. Includes a link to a database to search or download.
*[http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=43747&silo_library=GEN01 ''The Royal Navy, 1922-1930 : the search for a naval policy in an age of re-adjustment''] by Edward Des Rosiers. Link to a pdf download. [http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile43747.pdf Direct pdf link]. A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, McGill University, Canada, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History. August 1966.
*[https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/37423 ''Changes and challenges: The Royal Navy's China Station and Britain's East Asian empire during the 1920s''] by Matthew Joseph Heaslip. University of Exeter thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Maritime History, November 2018. [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/37423/HeaslipM.pdf Direct pdf]. Also available from [https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.775782 EThOS] British Library. Subsequently this thesis formed the basis of ''Gunboats, Empire and the China Station. The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rVAEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages Google Books].
*[https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/documents/units/rnssc/ww2-at-sea-bibliography_20191113.pdf The Royal Navy and the War at Sea: a bibliography [WW2<nowiki>]</nowiki>] royalnavy.mod.uk
===Historical books online===
Also see [[Military periodicals online]] for details of ''Navy List''s, also see above, books in the category [[Military periodicals online#Navy Regulations, Manuals etc|Navy Regulations, Manuals etc]] 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 Royal Naval Biography] 1828 by John Marshall googlebooks
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavy06clow ''Volume VI''] 1901. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavy06clow#page/222/mode/2up "Military History of the Royal Navy 1816-1856"] page 222
:[https://archive.org/details/royalnavy07clow ''Volume VII]'' 1903. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/royalnavy07clow#page/90/mode/2up "Military History of the Royal Navy 1857-1900"] page 91
*[https://archive.org/details/kingsregulations01greaiala britains-sea-soldiers-royal-marines-vol-1-to-1815/page/n11/mode/2up ''The KingBritain's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for Sea Soldiers: A History of the Government of His Majesty's Naval ServiceRoyal Marines, Volume I1 to 1815''] HMSO 1913, reprinted 1916. by Colonel Cyril Field 1924 Archive.org**:[https://archive.org/streamdetails/britains-sea-soldiers-royal-marines-vol-2-1815-1913/kingsregulations01greaiala#page/163n13/mode/1up "Regulation 5532up ''Britain's Sea Soldiers: Beards and Moustaches"A History of the Royal Marines, Volume 2 1815-1913''] page 163by Colonel Cyril Field 1924 Archive.org:*For titles such as ''The Queen's Regulations and the Admiralty Instructions for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service'' and ''The King'Kings s Regulations & and Admiralty Instructions - Part IIfor the Government of His Majesty's Naval Service'', ''Manual of Seamanship'', and ''The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service'' 1913 Transcribed version, not all sections available. see [[Military periodicals online#Navy Regulations, Manuals etc|Military periodicals online - Navy Regulations, Manuals etc]]*[https://sitesdiscovery.nationalarchives.rootswebgov.comuk/~pbtycdetails/KR&AI_1913_Vol_IIr/IndexC1891 Admiralty Fleet Orders ADM 182] Catalogue description, The National Archives, Kew.html sites"Printed routine orders issued to ships and establishments for information, guidance and action.rootswebThe orders cover matters of general interest or requiring wide circulation, including technical, administrative and disciplinary regulations, and official instructions and information.com/~pbtyc version], ":[https://webwww.navy.archivegov.orgau/webmedia-room/20190810114535publications/http://wwwadmiralty-fleet-orders Digitised ''Admiralty Fleet Orders'' 1910-1945] (incomplete series).pbenyon.plus.com Website of Australian Navy/KRHistory &AI_1913_Vol_IIResearch /Index.html pbenyon.plusReference Material/Historic Publications.com archived version]:The same website "Naval Social History - Circa 1793 - 1920+", (2 versions) refer External links above, also contains extracts of additional Admiralty Instructions[Australian] Commonwealth Naval Orders 1900s to 1970s.
*[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 1984, some of which are catalogued according to year of publication, not specific title. Archive.org, including Archive.org Lending Library. There may be additional volumes catalogued by title. Refer External links above, for the Navy Records Society, whose website contains details of its publications. Includes
**[https://archive.org/details/navalbrigadesini0000unse/page/n5 ''The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58''] edited by Commander W B Rowbotham RN 1947. Printed for the Navy Records Society, Vol LXXXVII. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505275 ''The Navy In India 1763-1783''] by Herbert W. Richmond 1931. Archive.org, Public Library of India 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/b28708453/page/n5/mode/2up ''Regulations and instructions, for the medical officers of His Majesty's Fleet''] by the Admiralty 1835 Archive.org.
*''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.co.uk/books?id=kKVdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Statistical Reports on the Health of the Navy, for the years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836, etc. [A reprint of pt. 1, without the Appendices<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 1841 Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PiBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR1 ''A Statistical Return of the Health of the Royal Navy for the Year 1858''] in ''Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons 1861 Volume XXXVIII'' 1861. Google Books. Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PiBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113 "East India and China Station"], page 113
**''A Copy of the Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy for the year''...
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109588/page/n3/mode/2up 1866] (1868); [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.109589/page/n3/mode/2up 1867] (1869). Ordered to be printed by the House of Commons. HMSO. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
**[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
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NNsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 "Navy (China Seas)"]
*[https://archive.org/details/searoadtoeastgib00sargrich/page/98 "The Chinese Stations"] page 99, and [https://archive.org/details/searoadtoeastgib00sargrich/page/n139?mode/1up Photograph: Naval Hospital Liukungtao], facing page 113 ''The Sea Road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures'' by Arthur John Sargent 1912 Archive.org
*Online articles are available from past editions of [https://www.naval-review.com/about-the-naval-review/ Online articles from ''The Naval Review'']. '''Update''' Although previously available without restriction, now only available to members(subscription required), or the page [https://www.naval-review.com/regulations-naval-review/ Regulations of The Naval Review] states "Time limited access to the archive is open to researchers and historians after 10 years from an article’s original publishing date for a small administration charge". Book reviews are part of :When the website archives were freely available to members of , and probably the public. Based on library cataloguescurrent situation, Oxford University Library appears to have a [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph014203044&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US complete set of volumes], Imperial War Museums (LBY E. 5 / 229) some, but missing WW2; British Library UIN: BLL01012090056 ("stock incomplete").:Browse you could browse the Contents page for each issue, or there is was an Index of articles 1913-1976. Pdf downloads. Many of the articles appear without authors, which appear in [https://archive.org/stream/mahanisnotenough00corb#page/340/mode/2up "Author List for the Naval Review 1913-1930"] by James Goldrick, which is an Index of all articles to 1930.<ref>"Author List for the Naval Review 1913-1930" by James Goldrick Appendix C, page 341 ''Mahan is not enough : the proceedings of a conference on the works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond'' 1993 Archive.org</ref>:During most of WWI the Journal was not published, but information was collected and published after the War. “In World War II there was no censorship, and the regular “Notes on the War at Sea” and "Diary of the War at Sea" are important records of naval events during World War II.“ The website Naval-History.Net, refer above, contains an index Examples of articles relating to WW1.:
:* "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/memoriesmarine/page/n9/mode/2up ''Memories of a Marine. An Amphibiography''] [1879-1913], by Major-General Sir George Aston 1919 Archive.org. Royal Marine Artillery.
:[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor/page/n9/mode/2up ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston 1930 Archive.org. Includes details of the author's WW1 service.
*[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 .
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org and Hathi Trust (Vol. V): [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations01corb Volume I], includes Cameroons and the Far East; [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog Volume II], includes Gallipoli; [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] includes Gallipoli and Mesopotamia; [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV] , includes Mesopotamia; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2985875?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume V]. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volumes II and III.
:Revised second editions were published: Volume 1 1938, revised by Edward Yorke Daniel and C. V. Owen in two volumes, Text and Maps, of which at least one volume is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000784025 ; Volume 2 1929, with maps in pocket UIN: BLL01015219377 ; Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia.<ref>MartH. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 35 ''Great War Forum'' 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.</ref> Facsimile reprints of the 2nd editions of Volume 1 and 3 were reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1997 and 1995 (Volume 3 UIN: BLL01011725482). The reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19n_VjuTiC fold3] contain the revised editions, (at least for Volume 1 and 3, Volume 2 unknown) but not the separate map boxes of the originals. <ref>Gibbo. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2832678 Rarest book?] post 894, page 36 ''Great War Forum'' 23 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.</ref> For those with suitable University access, revised Vols. 1 and 3 are available on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000486043 HathiTrust Digital Library].
:''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: The Merchant Navy'' by Archibald Hurd 1921-1929. [https://archive.org/details/merchantnav01hurd Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/merchantnavy02hurduoft Volume II] Archive.org. Volume III is available as a transcribed edition on [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net]
*[https://archive.org/details/RankAtAGlance01a_201701 ''Rank at a Glance in the Army and Navy''] New and revised edition. Catalogued 1915. Published by George Philip. 48 pages. File is a series of images. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/badgestheirmeani00unse/mode/2up ''Badges and their meaning : a companion to "Rank at a Glance"] : Army & Navy, the R.N.A.S., R.N.D., R.N.R., R.N.V.R., the Royal Marines, Forces of the Overseas Dominions, British Red Cross Society, miscellaneous badges, etc., etc., with descriptive notes''. Published by George Philip. Catalogued 1916. Archive.org.
*First World War books by E. Keble Chatterton, late Lieutenant-Commander RNVR include
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b745995?urlappend=%3Bseq=9''Dardanelles Dilemma: The Story of the Naval Operations''] by E. Keble Chatterton 1935 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59017 Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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.
*[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 World War II/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".
*[https://archive.org/details/blessourship0000bush/page/n5/mode/2up ''Bless our Ship''] by Captain Eric Wheler Bush, Royal Navy 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 12 August 1899, he had become a Naval Cadet at 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 result of enemy torpedo action. [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/8599bc65-af1f-38df-b4a8-940cd810f53b Biographical details] archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Served in the Navy to 1948, including East Indies Station from 1922 and China Station late 1920s and again early 1930s.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromdardanellest0000mard/page/n7/mode/2up ''From the Dardanelles to Oran : Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace, 1915-1940''] by Arthur J Marder 1974 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/oldfriendsnewene00mard ''Old Friends, New Enemies : the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Strategic Illusions 1936-1941''] by Arthur J Marder 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Marder Arthur Marder] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/navalpolicybetwe0002rosk/mode/2up ''Naval Policy between the Wars Volume II The period of reluctant rearmament 1930-1939''] by Stephen Roskill 1976 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. (Volume I subtitle ''The period of Anglo-American antagonism, 1919-1929'', pub. 1968. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sBaODQAAQBAJ&printsec=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, HMSO 1954-1961, see [[Second World War#Despatches, Offical histories (UK)|Second World War - Despatches, Offical histories (UK)]]. Scroll down.
*[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..."
*[http://www.digar.ee/id/nlib-digar:119263 ''Unsere Marine im Weltkrieg. Bd. 2, Krieg auf sieben Ozeanen''] Editor: Fritz Otto Busch, Georg Günther von Forstner Volume 2. 1935. German language. National Library of Estonia - English webpage option available.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. A China Sea Captain, during WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden which attacked oil tanks at Madras [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/52/mode/2up page 51]. He was later a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra. [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJulius_Lauterbach&edit-text=&act=url Julius Lauterbach] [1877-1937] Wikipedia Google Translate English version, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Lauterbach Original German version].
:[https://archive.org/details/emdenmyexperienc00fran/page/n7/mode/2up ''Emden : my experiences in S. M. S. Emden''] by Franz Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern, Oberleutnant z.S.a.D. 1928 Archive.org. A later edition was reprinted as ''Emden: The Last Cruise of the Chivalrous Raider, 1914''. Originally published 1925 in the German language ''Emden : meine Erlebnisse auf S.M. Schiff "Emden"''.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.449028 ''The Devils Wind''] by Maj. Gen. G.L. Verney 1956. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. 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://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200967 ''The Scarlet Stripe - being the adventures of a naval surgeon''] by 1932 Taffrail (Captain Henry Taprell Dorling R N) 1932 fadedpage.com, a Canadian website with many online books. A transcription. Also available [https://archive.org/details/scarletstripe0000taff/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow, 1953 edition]. An adventure story. Includes piracies of coasting steamers in the China Seas, in line with actual events. He was also the author of the novel ''Pirates'' published 1929, a story of the operations of the pirates in the Canton delta and of the duties of the British gunboats involved, which is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000969387 . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Taprell_Dorling H. Taprell Dorling] Wikipedia.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author had served in this period on ''HMS Scarab'' a river gunboat.
: Note, this appears to be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe, first published 1936. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Odyssey''] by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published 1936. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitious) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in the events in Turkey during the 1920s, and the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. A publisher's note about the book and the author, says "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified to write a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy".<ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19360427-1.2.78?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article "Publisher's Note" [about ''Naval Odyssey''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] ''Morning Tribune'', 27 April 1936, Page 15. nlb.gov.sg. </ref>
:Thomas Bovius Ralph Woodrooffe was in the Royal Navy from 1917 and became Lieutenant-Commander in 1929, retired/was dismissed in 1933 and then served in WW2. ''In Good Company'', published 1947 is a memoir about his WW2 service as a Naval Observer. He also wrote a number of other books on naval matters. His navy service is [http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersW5.html here] scroll down to his entry. unithistories.com
*Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) wrote 21 very well regarded nautical historical novels in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey–Maturin_series Aubrey–Maturin series] (Wikipedia) set during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). One reviewer thought they were the best historical novels ever written.
:[https://archive.org/search?query=%28%22Aubrey%2C+Jack+%28Fictitious+character%29%22%29&sort=title Archive.org editions], search term "Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)". Or [https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Search] for individual book titles.
:[https://archive.org/details/jackaubreycomman0000lave/mode/2up ''Jack Aubrey Commands : an historical companion to the naval world of Patrick O'Brian''] by Brian Lavery 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
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