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Books should be available from all major reference libraries
(Book coverage may overlap Periods)
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Period
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Ships, including Auxiliaries
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Events
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General
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Ships of the Royal Navy,
Vols 1 & 2, by J J Colledge
Shore Establishments of the
Royal Navy, by Lt Cdr B Warlow RN from early 19th century
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Royal Navy Day, by Day, by
Capt A B Sainsbury and Lt-Cdr F L Phillips
Battles and Honours of the
Royal Navy, by David A Thomas
The
Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, General Editor: J R Hill
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Early history
to 1792
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British Warships
in the Age of Sail, Vol 1 - 1603-1714, Vol 2 - 1714-1792, by Rif Winfield
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The Safeguard of
the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649, by N A M Rodger
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Napoleonic era
1792 to 1815
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British Warships
in the Age of Sail, Vol 3 -1793-1817, by Rif Winfield
British Warship
Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859, by David Hepper
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Fleet
Battle and Blockade : the French Revolutionary War 1793-1797
Nelson against Napoleon: from the Nile to Copenhagen, 1798-1801
The Campaign of Trafalgar 1803/1805
The Naval War of 1812,
all by Robert Gardiner
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Pax Britannica 1815-1914
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The Sail and Steam Navy
List, 1815-1889, by Rif Winfield
Conway's All the World's
Fighting Ships 1860-1905
British Warship Losses in
the Ironclad Era 1860-1919, by David Hepper
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Rule Britannia, The Victorian and Edwardian
Navy, by Peter Padfield
Before the Dreadnought: the Royal Navy from
Nelson to Fisher, by Richard Humble
Send a Gunboat: the Victorian Navy and supremacy at
sea, 1854-1904, by Antony Preston
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World War 1 1914-18,
and Interwar
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Conway's All the World's
Fighting Ships 1906-1921
British Warships 1914-1919, by F J Dittmar & J J Colledge
British Vessels Lost at Sea
1914-1918, HMSO
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History of the Great War:
Naval Operations, 5 Vols with 4 vols of maps, by Julian S Corbett & Henry
Newbolt (official history)
History of the Great War,
The Merchant Navy, 3 volumes, by Archibald Hurd (incl. auxiliaries)
A Naval History of World
War 1, by Paul G Halpern
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World War 2
1939-45
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Conway's All the World's
Fighting Ships 1922-1946
British and Empire Warships
of the Second World War, by H T Lenton
British Vessels Lost at Sea
1939-1945, HMSO
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The War at Sea, by Captain S
W Roskill, 4 vols (official history)
History of United
States Naval Operations in World War II, by Rear-Adm Eliot Morison, 15 vols
(covers allied campaigns involving RN)
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Postwar
1945-present
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Conway's All the World's
Fighting Ships 1947-95
Jane's Fighting Ships,
various up to 2010
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Britain's Modern Royal Navy, by Paul Beaver
The Royal Navy and the
Falklands War, by David Brown
The Fourth Force: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Since the
War, by Geoff Puddefoot
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