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• An Admiral's Yarn (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1999), by Harris Laning, ed. by Mark R. Shulman (PDF at ibiblio.org)
• The Memoirs of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2004), by H. Kent Hewitt, ed. by Evelyn M. Cherpak (PDF at ibiblio.org)
• Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The victory at sea (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920), by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Historical Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff :, 1989), by Willard J. Webb, Ronald H. Cole, and United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Historical Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet : a biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy (Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy, 1995), by Gerald E. Wheeler and Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Joint History Office :, 1995), by Willard J. Webb and Ronald H. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea raiders of the American Revolution : the Continental Navy in European waters (Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy :, 2003), by E. Gordon Bowen-Hassell, Mark L. Hayes, Dennis Michael Conrad, and Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 19 gun salute : case studies of operational, strategic, and diplomatic naval leadership during the twentieth and early twenty first centuries. (Naval War College Press ;, 2010), by Bruce A. Elleman, John B. Hattendorf, and Naval War College (U.S.). Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farragut and other great commanders : a series of naval biographies (G. Routledge, 1886), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of David Glasgow Farragut, first admiral of the United States navy (D. Appleton and company, 1891), by Loyall Farragut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the life and services of Vice Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, U.S. Navy : read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, April 6, 1910 (s.n., 1910), by Stephen Cooper Ayres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admiral Farragut (D. Appleton and Company, 1892), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An admiral's log : being continued recollections of naval life (D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Robley D. Evans and Chandler Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and glorious deeds of Admiral Dewey, including a thrilling account of our conflicts with the Spaniards and the Filipinos in the Orient, and the complete story of the Philippine islands, historical and descriptive (The C. B. Ayer company, 1898), by Joseph L. Stickney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and glorious deeds of Admiral Dewey, including a thrilling account of our conflicts with the Spaniards and the Filipinos in the Orient, and the complete story of the Philippine islands, historical and descriptive (The C. B. Ayer company, 1898), by Joseph L. Stickney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont (Henry Eckel, printer, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Salamander : the life and naval career of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut (Lee and Shepard ;, 1883), by P. C. Headley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amphibians came to conquer; the story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner (U.S. Dept. of the Navy, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1991., 1991), by George C. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher. (Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1882), by George Henry Preble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decatur and Coleridge. ([Annapolis], 1908), by Carlos Gilman Calkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Salamander : the life and naval career of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut (Lee and Shepard ;, 1883), by P. C. Headley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memorial of David Dixon Porter from the City of Boston. (Printed by order of the City Council, 1891), by James Russell Soley and Boston City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official programme and souvenir, reception of Admiral Dewey by the City of New York (F.T. Alder and H.C. Green, 1899), by Harry C. Green, Fred T. Alder, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), and New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Plan and Scope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Admiral Dewey. (World Review Co., 1910), by George Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Career of John Grimes Walker, U.S.N., 1835-1907 (s.n., 1959), by Frances P. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uriah Phillips Levy : the blue star commodore. (Norfolk Jewish Community Council, 1961), by Sanford V. Sternlicht (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dashing Paul Jones : the hero of the colonial navy (David McKay, 1895), by Frank Sheridan and David McKay (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Life and character of Admiral Collingwood. (T.J. Wilson, 1858), by Ninian Pinkney and United States Naval Academy. Lawrence Literary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military personnel : experience of prominent generals and admirals : fact sheet for the Chairman (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1988), by United States House Committee on Armed Services and United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• General and flag officer requirements : hearing before the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, September 14, 2011. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2012), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Queenstown Patrol, 1917: The Diary of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1996), by Joseph K. Taussig, ed. by William N. Still (PDF at ibiblio.org)

• Full committee hearings on S. 632, to authorize certain personnel and former personnel of the naval establishment to accept certain gifts and a foreign decoration tendered by foreign governments; S. 279, to authorize the advance on the retired list of Lt. John T. McDermott, United States Navy (retired), to the grade of lieutenant commander; S. 630, to amend Section 19 of the act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1057), so as to remove the upper age limit for appointment to commissioned grade in the Supply Corps of the Navy; S. 673, relating to the pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve performing active duty in the grade of rear admiral, and for other purposes; H.R. 2485, to authorize the attendance of the United States Marine Band at the eighty-third and final national encampment of the G.A.R. to be held in Indianapolis, Ind., August 28 to September 1, 1949 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1949), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearings on S. 673, relating to the pay and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve performing active duty in the grade of rear admiral, and for other purposes ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1949), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grossdeutsches Wollen : aus den Lebenserfahrungen eines Seeoffiziers (Nationale Jugend, 1924), by Adolf von Trotha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hurrah for the life of a sailor! Fifty years in the Royal Navy (Blackwood, 1900), by William Robert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of celebrated naval commanders (Harding and Lepard, 1832), by Edward Hawke Locker and Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le contre-amiral Byng devant ses juges et devant l'histoire (s.n., 1893), by Faucher de Saint-Maurice and Société royale du Canada (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States, by Raphael Semmes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Peder Skram og Else Krabbe : en Levnedsskildring (Kjøbenhavn, 1887), by Jens Nørregaard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samtale i de Dødes Riige : første entrevue imellem den kongel. danske Vice-Admiral Petrus af Tordenskiold og den viidt berømte hollandske Admiral Martin Tromp, som indeholder begge disse store og tappre helters mandige Bedrifter : tilligemed med de nyeste Mærkværdigheder, og de derover giorde curieuse Reflexioner (Børsums Forlag, 1960), by Fassmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'amiral Coligny, étude historique (Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1872), by Jules Tessier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amiral Coligny (Firmin-Didot, 1876), by M. Becquerel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Vice-Amiral Baron de La Ronciére-Le Noury; notice biographique (C. Hérissey., 1881), by Alfred de Jancigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de l'amiral Duperré, ancien ministre de la marine et des colonies ... (Imprimerie nationale, 1848), by F. Chassériau and Victor Guy Duperré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'amiral Courbet (Librairie Bloud & Barral, 1891), by J. de La Faye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bougainville et ses compagnons (A. Michel, 1929), by Jean Lefranc (page images at HathiTrust)

• My memoirs (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1919), by Alfred von Tirpitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Aufzeichnungen und Briefen während der Kriegszeit (K. Siegismund, 1920), by Hugo von Pohl and Ella von Pohl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by Bartholomew James, ed. by John Knox Laughton and James Young F. Sulivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History, From the Earliest Periods; With A Continuation Down to the Year 1779 (4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinsons, 1785), by John Campbell, ed. by John Berkenhout
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
• The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson, by Robert Southey (Gutenberg text)
• Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1897), by George Rooke, ed. by Oscar Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Life of Sir John Leake, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1920), by Stephen Martin Leake, ed. by Geoffrey Callender
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoir of the life and services of Admiral Sir William Hargood (Printed for private circulation only, by H.S. Richardson, 1841), by Joseph Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (Harper, 1800), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth. (Smith, Elder and co;, 1835), by Edward Osler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson : the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain (Little, Brown and company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Augustus, viscount Keppel, admiral of the White, and first Lord of the Admiralty in 1782-3. (H. Colburn, 1842), by Thomas Robert Keppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelson: The centenary of Trafalgar (Spottiswoode & co., ltd., printers, 1905), by Cyprian Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and services of Vice-admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, baronet, K.C.B. (Hatchard and Son [etc.], 1846), by Henry Raikes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admiral Sir P. B. V. Broke ... a memoir. (S. Low, son, and Marston, 1866), by J. G. Brighton and Philip Bowes Vere Broke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton, vice-admiral, alderman, and member for York A.D. 1666-1725 (Macmillan and co., 1885), by Clements R. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vice-Admiral Sir John Bentley, 1703-1772 (Billing and Sons, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admiral Blake. (D. Appleton, 1886), by David Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admiral of the fleet : Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, a biography (W. Blackwood, 1896), by Mary Augusta Phipps Egerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, G.C.B. (Richard Bentley, 1848), by John Barrow and W. Sidney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelson in England : a domestic chronicle (Dutton, 1913), by Esther Meynell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last of Nelson's captains (Harrison, 1891), by Augustus Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• British naval biography : comprising the lives of the most distinguished admirals from Howard to Codrington : with an outline of the naval history of England from the Earliest period to the present time. (Printed for Adam Scott, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson. (Edward Arnold, 1914), by Geoffrey Rawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From middy to admiral of the fleet; the story of Commodore Anson re-told to boys (Hutchinson, 1891), by James Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farragut and other great commanders : a series of naval biographies (G. Routledge, 1886), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• British naval biography : comprising the lives of the most distinguished admirals, from Howard to Coddington : with an outline of the naval history of England, from the earliest period to the present time. (Printed for Scott, Webster and Geary, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter to a Gentleman in the country, from his friend in London : giving an authentick and circumstantial account of the confinement, behaviour, and death of Admiral Byng, as attested by the gentlemen who were present. (Printed for and sold by J. Lacy ..., 1757) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de Nelson : d'après les dépèches officielles et ses correspondances privées (Charpentier, 1860), by E. D. Forgues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late Lord H. Nelson : in which are enumerated the whole of his actions, minutely recorded, interspersed with anecdotes of that great naval hero. (Printed by Fryer & Clark for Warner & Hanna, 1806) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Admiral of the fleet Sir William Parker... from 1781-1866 (Harrison, 1876), by Augustus Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lecture delivered in the Naval Chapel, at Annapolis, Md. (T. J. Wilson, 1858), by Ninian Pinkney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelsonian reminiscences. (Little & Brown, 1843), by G. S. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake (Associated publishers of American records, 1907), by Francis Russell Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1901), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures from the life of Nelson (Dodd, Mead and company, 1897), by W Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Duncan (Small, Maynard, 1900), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (Maynard, Merrill, 1896), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Horatio, Lord Nelson (J. M. Dent & sons ltd.;, 1919), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Howard to Nelson : twelve sailors (Heinemann, 1907), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life, voyages, and exploits of Admiral Sir Francis Drake, Knt. : with numerous original letters from him and the Lord High Admiral to the Queen and Great Officers of State (J. Murray, 1843), by John Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The navy as I have known it, 1849-1899 (Cassell and company, limited, 1904), by Edmund Robert Fremantle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson, the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain (Little, Brown and company, 1899), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, K. C. B., and Capt. James Trevenen... (J. Murray, 1850), by John Penrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• British naval biography ; comprising the lives of the most distinguished admirals, from Howard to Codrington, with an outline of the naval history of England, from the earliest period to the present time. (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Nelson. (London, 1828), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• British naval achievements : being an accurate account of the lives and actions of British seaman from 1780 to the last expedition against Algiers in 1816 : forming an uninterrupted succession of gallant exploits on that element, in our own times in which the fleets of Great Britain may be truly said to have had no rival ... (Printed for Richardson and Co., Harris and Co. [and 5 others], 1823), by Henry Redhead Yorke and William Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Admiral Vernon from contemporary authorities (W. H. Dalton, 1861), by William Frederick Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authentic narrative of the death of Lord Nelson: comprising several interesting circumstances preceding, attending and subsequent to, that event (W. Mason, 1825), by William Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the professional life of the Right Honourable Horatio, lord viscount Nelson ... (J. Cundee, 1806), by Joshua White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sir Sidney Smith (T. Tegg [etc.], 1806) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memoirs of Admiral Charles Stirling: (Printed by L. Harrison, 1826), by J Ralfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (W.H. White & Co., 1891), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of William Wolseley, admiral of the Red Squadron (Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr=ubner, 1895), by Mary C. Innes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the British admirals and naval history of Great Britain from the time of Caesar to the Chinese war of 1841 (Printed for R. Griffin [by] R. Malcolm, 1841), by John Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the British admirals containing a new and accurate naval history, from the earliest periods (Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson ..., 1785), by John Campbell and John Berkenhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and correspondence of the late Admiral Lord Rodney (J. Murray, 1830), by Lord Rodney and Major-General d. 1848 Mundy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records (Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), by John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories (Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), by John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Admiral Blake (Longmans, Green and co., 1896), by David Hannay and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ... (W. Blackwood and sons, 1898), by C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (American book company, 1895), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Nelson (Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Robert Southey and Edwin L. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (D. Lothrop and company, 1884), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Horatio, Lord Nelson. (J.M. Dent and Co., 1896), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Nelson (Roberts brothers, 1883), by Robert Southey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake (AMS Press, 1969), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelson and his times (Harmsworth brothers, ltd., 1898), by Charles Beresford and Herbert Wrigley Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of a seaman (Richard Bentley, 1862), by Thomas Cochrane Dundonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two admirals, Sir Fairfax Moresby, John Moresby : a record of a hundred years (Methuen, 1913), by John Moresby and Lily Moresby Hodgkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jane Austen's sailor brothers: Being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen, by J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback (Gutenberg ebook)
• Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, by John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memories, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, by John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoir of the Life and Services of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Baronet, K.C.B., ed. by Henry Raikes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rodney, by David Hannay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford, by Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II, by John Ross (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II, by Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald and H. R. Fox Bourne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I, by John Ross (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth, by Edward Osler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2, by James Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1, by James Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, by William Beatty (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. I, by Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald and H. R. Fox Bourne (Gutenberg ebook)

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