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Introduction
For
any researcher of the Royal Navy in World War 1,
the ideal would be to have access to records
describing every vessel and what it was doing on
any given day. This would be a huge undertaking,
and need careful thought and planning on how
best to set about and maintain a sensible
database.
A
start has been made using more readily
available information, including the log books
of over 300 World War 1-era warships and
auxiliaries, totalling 300,000 pages. A "Quick
Reference Guide" has also been compiled from
Admiralty Pink Lists
These,
together with other Data Lists are listed in
the right-hand column.
RESEARCHING
BRITISH WARSHIPS
Sources
may vary, errors creep in, and these errors
can be repeated time and again. Information
should therefore be cross-checked whenever
possible, and sources quoted. Also note that
ship characteristics e.g. armament, crew size
etc., often changed during their careers
Researchers
are invited to start with Ships
of the Royal Navy - Warships, Auxiliary Patrol
vessels, Support vessels (link
on the right), which
has been
compiled as an index to Dittmar and Colledge's
voluminous researches
published in
"British Warships 1914-1919", by Ian Allan 1972.
The
Location/Activity Data Lists on the right can
then be checked for further information. These
are believed to be as accurate and
authoritative as possible.
More information may be found in both
published sources and on the internet, but
again cross-checked wherever possible and
sources listed or quoted.
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