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The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, founded in the 16th century, is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the 17th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the second third of the 20th century.
General
- The Gentleman's Guide in his Tour Through France, 1770 by "An Officer" IA
- Mechanical Improvements Connected with the Royal Navy, 1831 by Joseph Bothway IA
- Flags National and Mercantile, for the use of officers of royal navy, 1891 by James Griffin IA
- A Manual of Naval Architecture, 1894 by Sir William Henry White IA
- Engine-room Practice, a Handbook for the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine, 1906 by John George Liversidge IA
- The Marine Steam Engine, 1911 by Richard Sennett and Sir Henry John Oram IA
- Jellicoe Memorandum on submarine warfare, 29 Oct 1916 by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
- The Sub, the autobiography of David Munro, sub-lieutenant, 1917 by Henry Taprell Dorling IA
Correspondance
- Letter from Captain James R. Dacres, RN, to Vice Admiral Herbert Sawyer, RN, 1812
- Letter of Thomas Thrush addressed to the King, on his Resigning his Commission as Captain in the Royal Navy, on the Ground of the Unlawfulness of War, 1825 by Thomas Thrush IA
- Letter to the Admiralty, 30 Oct 1914 by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
- Jellicoe's Despatch of the Battle of Jutland by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Reference
- "Admiralty Jurisdiction," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "High Court of Admiralty," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
History
- Anthony Roll by Anthony Anthony
- The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Britain's Naval Power, 1894 by Hamilton Williams IA
- The British Fleet, 1894 by Charles Napier Robinson IA
- The Royal Navy, a History from the Earliest Times to the Present, 1897-1903 by William Laird Clowes in seven volumes:
- A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1898 by David Hannay IA
- The Royal Navy, 1907 by Henry Lawrence Swinburne IA
- Peeps at the Royal Navy, 1913 by James Baikie IA
- The Royal Navy, its Influence in English History and in the Growth of Empire, 1914 by John Leyland IA
- Fifty Years in the Royal Navy, 1919 by Sir Percy Scott IA
- The Royal Navy, the Sure Shield of the Empire, 1930 by Geoffrey Parratt IA
- "The Navy and the Empire," by Carlyon Bellairs in The Empire and the century (pp. 197−212), London: John Murray (1905)
- "The Navy and the Colonies," by John Colomb in The Empire and the century (pp. 213−226), London: John Murray (1905)
Operations
- A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, c. 1701 by William Dampier
- Account of the Battle of Minorca, 1756 by John Byng
- A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World, c. 1770s by James Cook
- A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour, 1773 by Sydney Parkinson
- The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, 1789 by Arthur Phillip
- An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4, 1805 by James Hingston Tuckey
- Observations upon the Marine Barometer, made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, 1805 by Matthew Flinders in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks
- Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 1, 1818-1822 by Phillip Parker King
- Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2, 1818-1822 by Phillip Parker King
- Narrative of a Voyage Round the World (volume 1), 1843 by Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (transcription project)
- Narrative of a Voyage Round the World (volume 2), 1843 by Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (transcription project)
- Discoveries in Australia, volume 1, 1846 by by John Lort Stokes
- Discoveries in Australia, volume 2, 1846 by by John Lort Stokes
- Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World, 1893 by James Cook
- A Fleet in Being; Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron, 1898 by Rudyard Kipling
- Errors Made in Jutland Battle by John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
- Unarmoured ships (1875) by Thomas Allnutt Brassey
Ships
- HMS Blake
- "The Loss of the Eurydice," in The Times (1843)
- HMS Java (1811)
- Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy, 1864 by William O. S Gilly IA
- Ships of the Royal Navy, 1922 by Oscar Parkes IA
People
Biographies
Royal Naval Biography (1823-35) by John Marshall
Memoirs of the Services of all the Flag-officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders whose names appeared on the Admiralty List of Sea Officers at the commencement of the present year, or who have since been promoted.
A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) by William Richard O'Byrne
comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty’s Navy, from the rank of Admiral of the fleet to that of Lieutenant, inclusive.
A-C
- Acton, Edward (DNB00) as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- William Allen as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- James Anderson as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Sir George Ayscue as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sir Alexander John Ball, Bart. as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Samuel Barrington as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- William Bligh as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, Bart. as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- John Byng as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Hon. John Byron as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sir Robert Calder as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- James Cook as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Captain James Cook as it appeared in the 1914 The New Student's Reference Work
D-G
- William Dampier as it appeared in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910
- Sir Charles Douglas as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sir Francis Drake as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sir John Thomas Duckworth as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., 1914 by Ernest Scott
- John Forbes as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- James Alexander Gordon as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Richard Griffith as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
H-Q
- Thomas Hastings as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Edward Hughes as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- John Hunter as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- John Hutt as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Frederick Marryat as it appeared in the 1910 A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
- David Milne as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Andrew Mitchell as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- David Mitchell as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- James Montagu as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Thomas Pakenham as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Henry Palmer as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- William Penn as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
R-Z
- Sir George Rooke as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- William Sidney Smith as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Robert Stopford as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- John Talbot as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- George Thomas as it appeared in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- James Kingston Tuckey as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- James Kingston Tuckey as it appeared in the 1878 A Compendium of Irish Biography
- James Walker as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- James Wallace as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- William Winter as it appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Obituaries
- Henry Bruce
- "Funeral: Admiral Sir Henry Bruce," in The Times (1948)
- "Ashes scattered from Destroyer," in The Times (1948)
- David Hannay
Authors
- Edward Belcher
- William Bligh
- Cyprian Arthur George Bridge
- Henry Bruce
- Montagu Burrows
- James Cook
- Ettrick William Creak
- James R. Dacres
- William Dampier
- Arthur Mostyn Field
- Matthew Flinders
- Sydney Fremantle
- Charles Fremantle
- David Hannay
- John Jellicoe
- Edward Nicholas Kendall
- Phillip Parker King
- Albert Hastings Markham
- Frederick Marryat
- Edward William Campbell Rich Owen
- Arthur Phillip
- Owen Stanley
- John Lort Stokes
- James Hingston Tuckey
- George Vancouver
- Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal
- John Clements Wickham
Portals
Fiction
- The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay, 1829 by Frederick Marryat
- Mr. Midshipman Easy, 1836 by Frederick Marryat
- The Three Cutters 1836 by Frederick Marryat
- H.M.S. Pinafore 1878 by W. S. Gilbert
- The Mutineers of the Bounty, 1879 by Jules Verne, translated by Agnes Kinloch Kingston
Verse
Periodials
- The Naval Chronicle (1799-1818):
- Volume 1 IA
- Volume 3 IA
- Volume 4 IA
- Volume 5 IA
- Volume 6 IA
- Volume 7 IA
- Volume 8 IA
- Volume 10 IA
- Volume 11 IA
- Volume 12 IA
- Volume 13 IA
- Volume 14 IA
- Volume 15 IA
- Volume 16 IA
- Volume 18 IA
- Volume 19 IA
- Volume 20 IA
- Volume 21 IA
- Volume 24 IA
- Volume 25 IA
- Volume 26 IA
- Volume 27 IA
- Volume 30 IA
- Volume 31 IA
- Volume 32 IA
- Volume 33 IA
- Volume 34 IA
- Volume 35 IA
- Volume 36 IA
- Volume 37 IA
- Volume 38 IA