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CONTACTING NAVAL-HISTORY.NET from Gordon Smith

Dear Visitor,

Welcome to Naval-History.Net

I aim to answer all my emails in detail, but with a few thousand web pages to format and edit, and many more to be added, I'm always a bit overwhelmed.

Before you email me, please note:

1. My main area of interest is the Navies of the world 1914 to 1945 and postwar. Outside this, you could search for more suitable websites (I use Google).

2. To find out about particular ships, use the search box at the top of www.naval-history.net. If you can not find what you want, do an internet search, but add HMS (or HMAS, HMCS, HMIS, HMNZS, USS) in front of the name and make sure the spelling is right.

3. To find out about Royal Navy and some United States Navy casualties, click on one or other of the first two major headings on www.naval-history.net.  You can also check the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site (Google search).

4. To find out about ex-Navy family and friends, you will need their service records. Go to the Links page, and there you will find contact details for RN and USN service records. The RN record should include ships and dates, and you can then research those ships on Naval-History.Net and other sites. Note: some of these ships will be shore bases.

If after this you would still like to contact me, my email address is naval-history@ntlworld.com.

If you require a reply, please bear with me. I try to answer all my emails (except when my computer glitches and dumps them all), but if some thought or research is needed, it may take me a while to get round to them. The same goes for the considerable amount of research I am sent. I would like to get this all online instantly, fully formatted and edited so it is not lost, but again it can take me months, if not years to do so and to the standard I aim for.

Comments, corrections (and even complaints) are always welcome. That also goes for any ideas on how to improve Naval-History.Net and make its material, especially that of its major contributors - Don Kindell and Geoff Mason - more widely known.

Best wishes, Gordon Smith

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