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• Great Britain. Royal Navy
• Early works to 1800

• 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)

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• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some images stripped out

• 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
• 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)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • Volume 1 (to 1327): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (1327-1422): multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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