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*[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.
*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>
* 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].
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*[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://rmhistorical.com/home Royal Marines] "Reference information and research material for those interested in the Royal Marines". rmhistorical.com
*[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.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
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