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The Navy Records Society was established in 1893 as a scholarly text publication society to publish historical documents relating to the history of the Royal Navy.Professor Sir John Knox Laughton and Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge were the key leaders who organized the society, basing it on the model of earlier organisations such as the Hakluyt Society and the Camden Society.
[41] [42] In February 2021 the Ministry of Defence commenced transferring 9.7 million military records for individuals with a discharge date before 31 December 1963 to The National Archives UK, its largest record transfer in the history of the organization. [43] The first batch of records were added to the Discovery catalogue in April 2022.
In late 1946, HMS Theseus sailed out from the UK to Singapore as the flagship of Flag Officer Air, Far East. [15] After her arrival, she became flagship of the 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron . Flag Officer, Air, Home – Flew flag from RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in the 1930s, post extant until 1963.
The Royal Navy currently operates from three bases in the United Kingdom where commissioned ships are based; Portsmouth, Clyde and Devonport, Plymouth—Devonport is the largest operational naval base in the UK and Western Europe. [174]
This is a list of all naval vessels ever used by the United Kingdom under the Royal Navy and other UK maritime organisations or groups that participated in UK conflicts. . This list will consist of lists of naval vessels used at specific time periods such as World War II and the Modern day as well as a list of Royal Navy ship names that will look at all Royal Navy ships ever u
ADM 11 (Admiralty: Officers' Service Records (Series I) 1741-1903) ADM 12 (Indexes and digests for 1793-1913) ADM 13 (Supplementary Admiralty records 1803-1917) ADM 116 (Admiralty Record Office cases 1852-1965) ADM 137 (records used to compile the official history of the First World War) ADM records go up to ADM 363 plus one additional filed ...
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 1, 660–1649 (1997) [12] The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 2, 1649–1815 (2004) [13] A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK, ed. by Randolph Cock and N. A. M. Rodger (2006) [14] Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern ...
The Royal Scots Navy (or Old Scots Navy) was the navy of the Kingdom of Scotland until its merger with the Kingdom of England's Royal Navy in 1707 as a consequence of the Treaty of Union and the Acts of Union that ratified it. From 1603 until 1707, the Royal Scots Navy and England's Royal Navy were organised as one force, though not formally ...