The Royal Navy
The Royal Navy Prior to 1972 all RN personnel were given their service record when they discharged. For pension purposes the RN retained pay details. Therefore the only information held on RN personnel who served prior to 1972 are their Service details (number, rank, name etc) and a list of dates and ships/shore bases.
A Subject Access Requests (SAR) form needs to be completed in order to access records.
The following address should be used for all Royal Navy and Royal Marine Enquiries
- DNCM
- Data Protection Cell
- Building 1/152
- PP65
- Victory View
- HMNB Portsmouth
- PO1 3LS
- Telephone Numbers: 02392 727531 / 723114 / 726063
- Researching the Mariners and Ships of the Merchant Marine and the World's Navies
- Royal Naval Museum
- Ship Index A List of Early Naval Ships along with dates for each vessel
- Portsmouth Memorials search by ship or name
- The Ships and their Fate
- Merchant Navy and Royal Navy information
- The Website of the Mariners mailing list Main Bases, Training Schools and RN Air Stations
- WW2 HMS Exeter crew lists Includes Rank some Navy / service numbers POW/ KIA
- Shore Bases and Training Establishments
- TNA Navy Research
- Naval Research-some helpful hints
- The Website Of The Mariners Miling list Royal Navy Personnel Records
- Modern day Royal Navy
- Late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History - Index
- Nelson-Navy Life in Royal Navy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth century
- Royal Navy officers who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, and the seamen and marines who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
- Naval Officers 1849
- Biographical Database People,Places,Ships,Organisations and Events associated with the Royal Navy since 1660
- Ships in Port 1881 Census
- The World's Navy Ships From The Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
- Naval history First and Second World Wars, campaign summaries and more.
- The H.M.S. Hood Association
- Maritime London Discover the past, explore the present
Records and Medals
World War 2 Crewlists for
- HMS Prince of Wales
- HMS Repulse
- HMS Electra
- HMS Express
- HMS Tenedos
- HMAS Vampire
- SS Automedon
- HMS Cornwall
- HMS Dorsetshire
- HMS Encounter
- HMS Jupiter
- HMS Rapid
- HMS Saumarez
- HMS Stronghold
- HMS Thanet
- HMS Thracian
- HMS Peterel
- HMS Li-Wo
- HMS Dragonfly
- HMS Grasshopper
- HMS Hollyhock
- HMS Paladin
- HMS Porpoise
- HMS Quilliam
- HMS Stonehenge
- HMS Stratagem
- HMS Ulster
- HMS Verulam
- HMS Virago
- HMS Volage
- HM Tug Yin Ping
Navy Records
Royal Navy Records can be applied for using the following contact address details
Officers aged 60 or under:
- Naval Secretary (OMOBS)
- Room 169
- Victory Building
- HM Naval Base
- Portsmouth
- POL 3LS
Officers born before 1914 and Ratings enlisted before 1924,
The National Archicves Kew www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
- Ratings enlisted after 1924
- NPP Accounts 1, AFPAA
- Centurion Building
- Grange Road
- Gosport
- Hampshire
- PO13 9XA
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