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*[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://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.
* ''The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford'' [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofadmiral0001bere/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofadmiral0002bere/page/n7/mode/2up Volume II] 1914 Archive.org. He was in the Royal Navy 1859-1909.
*[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/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
*''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'' [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[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/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.
*([https://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/wwi-naval-staff-monographs World War I Naval Staff Monographs] to download from the website of the Royal Australian Navy.) Add: The various volumes are described in a [https://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishAdmiraltyStaffMonographs.htm page] from Naval-History.net.
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* 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.
*[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://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/manual-seamanship-1915/page/n5/mode/2up ''Manual of Seamanship, Volume 1 1908 (Revised and Reprinted 1915)''] Admiralty publication HMSO 1917. For the instruction of Naval Cadets etc.
:''Manual of Seamanship (B.R. 67)'' Admiralty publication HMSO 1951-1954. [https://archive.org/details/manual-seamanship-1951-v1/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1, B.R. 67 (1/51)] 1951, [https://archive.org/details/manual-seamanship-1951-v2/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2, B.R. 67 (2/51)] 1952, [https://archive.org/details/manual-seamanship-1951-v3/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 3, B.R. 67 (3/51)] 1954. Archive.org.
:* From Volume 1 [https://archive.org/details/manual-seamanship-1951-v1/page/75/mode/2up "Passing Orders. Piping and the Boatswain's Call"] page 75. "Piping is a naval method of passing orders..."
:''Admiralty Manual of Seamanship (B.R. 67)'' published 1964-1967. [https://archive.org/details/admiralty-manual-sea-v1/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 1] 1964; [https://archive.org/details/admiralty-manual-sea-v2/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2] 1967; [https://archive.org/details/admiralty-manual-sea-v3/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 3] 1967, first published 1964. HMSO publications. Archive.org
*[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.
