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
Tel:02392 727531-723114-726063

• Veterans UK

• HMS Pembroke is a shore base not a ship. It was Chatham Naval Barracks and also home of the Coast guard Service. It is now part of the University of Greenwich.

Royal Navy Links

• Researching the Mariners and Ships of the Merchant Marine and the World's Navies

• Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

• Sailing Navies-Naval Operations During the Period 1650-1850

• Ship Index A List of Early Naval Ships along with dates for each vessel
• 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
• Royal Naval Museum
• Main Bases, Training Schools and RN Air Stations
• Pre-dreadnought Battleships
• This site records the Battle of Otranto Straits 15th May 1917
• Pre-dreadnought Battleships
• Portsmouth Memorials search by ship or name
• THE NAVAL BATTLE OF OTRANTO
• 1901 Census - Royal Navy Ships
• The sinking of the troopship Lancastria
• People,Places,Ships,Organisations and Events associated with the Royal Navy since 1660
• HMS Ajax

Records and Medals

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 Archives

Ratings enlisted after 1924

NPP Accounts 1, AFPAA
Centurion Building
Grange Road
Gosport
Hampshire
PO13 9XA

• Obtaining Royal Navy Service Records & Medals

• Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Contacts

• Naval Service Records for the First World War

World War 2 Crewlists

• Force Z-Survivors Association (POWRSA)

• 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

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