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LONDON GAZETTE DESPATCHES
The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 by Vice Admiral Collingwood, Second in Command
BACKGROUND, including contemporary accounts
Road to World War 1, Franco-Prussian War to Sarajevo, 1871-1914
Navy Records Society and The Naval Review, includes archives relating to pre-World War 1
Fifty Years in the Royal Navy 1866-1916 by Admiral Sir Percy Scott, father of modern gunnery
"THE ROYAL NAVY: A
HISTORY" by Sir Wm Laird
Clowes, Volume 7,
1857-1900
Ch 46, Civil History of the Royal Navy - Organisation, Warships, Weapons, Personnel
Ch 46, Civil History of the Royal Navy - Organisation, Warships, Weapons, Personnel
App,
Flag Officers Holding Principal Commands
THOSE WHO SERVED
Royal Navy Casualties, Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships, 1902-1914 by Don Kindell
Brief History of Warrant Officers in the Royal Navy by Lt Cdr G Mason
SHIPS and NAVIES
Queen Victoria's Fleet on Her Accession: the Strength and Distribution of the Royal Navy 1837
At the Advent of the Ironclad: the Strength and Distribution of the Royal Navy 1861
Year of the Diamond Jubilee Naval Review: Royal Navy Ship Deployments 1897
From Imperial Policeman to North Sea Battle Fleet: the Evolution of British Naval Deployment, 1900-1914 ..... all by Dr Graham Watson.
Royal Navy World War 1-era logbooks, including 1913-1914 by the Zooniverse "Old Weather" project
Pendant
Numbers -
short history by Lt-Cdr Geoff Mason
Rise of the Dreadnought Battleship 1906 to 1914
Expansion and Organisation of the Imperial German Navy 1897-1918 ..... both notes
TECHNOLOGY
British Battleships, HMS Warrior to Dreadnought, 1860-1905, from Conway's, 1860-1905
Warship Steam Engines and Boilers in the 19th Century, excerpts from "The Marine Steam Engine" by Sennett, 1899
Warship Armour, excerpts from USN 1937 Manual "Naval Ordnance and Gunnery"
Hydrographic Survey Work in the RN by Lt Cdr G Mason
The Early Days of Wireless at Sea by Louis C. Kleber