Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography
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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- Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander R.N. (1775-1814) (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1906), by James Anthony Gardner, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton and John Knox Laughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Admiral Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales (London: T. F. Unwin, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Great Britain. Royal Navy- Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII, 1485-8 and 1495-7 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), ed. by M. Oppenheim (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Two Discourses of the Navy, 1638 and 1659, by John Hollond; Also a Discourse of the Navy, 1660 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by John Hollond and Robert Slyngesbie, ed. by J. R. Tanner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Admiral's Wife in the Making, 1860-1903 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1917), by Ida Margaret Graves Poore
- The Great Naval War of 1887 (second edition; London: Hatchards, ca. 1887), by W. Laird Clowes (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- The Harwich Naval Forces: Their Part in the Great War (London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), by E. F. Knight (Gutenberg text)
- Recollections of an Admirals' Wife, 1903-1916 (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1916), by Ida Margaret Graves Poore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Spectre of Navalism (London: Darling and Son, 1915), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images here at Penn)
- Naval Courts Martial (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1914), by David Hannay
- A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
- Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1905; for supplement see Signals and Instructions), ed. by Julian Stafford Corbett
- Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794; With Addenda to Volume XXIX (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1908), by Julian Stafford Corbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
- The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Rattlin the Reefer, by Edward Howard, ed. by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
- The Captain of the "Mary Rose": A Tale of To-Morrow (third edition; London: Tower, 1894), by W. Laird Clowes, illust. by Edoardo Martino and Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Frank Mildmay: or, The Naval Officer, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
- The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by John Schönberg
- The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day (2 volumes; London: Library Press, 1915), by Fred T. Jane, illust. by W. L. Wyllie
- A History of the Royal Navy, From the Earliest Times to the Wars of the French Revolution (2 volumes (projected volumes beyond 1422 not published); London: R. Bentley, 1847), by Nicholas Harris Nicolas
- Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
- My Life Among the Bluejackets (second edition; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1909), by Agnes Weston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Sea and its Story, From Viking Ship to Submarine (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), ed. by Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
- Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander R.N. (1775-1814) (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1906), by James Anthony Gardner, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton and John Knox Laughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical, With Explanatory Plates (third edition; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by John Clerk, contrib. by Lord Rodney (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy During Victoria's Reign, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves; Updated to 1900, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Autobiography of Phineas Pett (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1918), by Phineas Pett, ed. by W. G. Perrin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sea Warfare (London: Macmillan and Co., 1916), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
- From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Archibald Webb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- In the King's Name: or, The Cruise of the Kestrel, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg text)
- The Three Midshipmen, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- The Three Admirals, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)
- The Three Commanders, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Three Lieutenants, by William Henry Giles Kingston, illust. by Archibald Webb (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Naval Alphabet (London: Sands and Co., ca. 1901), by John Hassall (page images at Princeton)
- Scapa and a Camera: Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the Grand Fleet Base (London: Country Life, Ltd.; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1921), by C. W. Burrows, contrib. by Francis Spurstow Miller
- The King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the Government of His Majesty's Naval Service, 1906 (London: HMSO, 1906), by Great Britain Admiralty (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1905; for supplement see Signals and Instructions), ed. by Julian Stafford Corbett
- Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794; With Addenda to Volume XXIX (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1908), by Julian Stafford Corbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Admiral Phillip: The Founding of New South Wales (London: T. F. Unwin, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
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