Navy Records Society List
The Navy Records Society was established in order to make rare and unpublished works relating to British naval history available on a broader basis. This is a list of their publications from 1894 to 2001. Note: several volumes have been published since this date – the Society is still very active.
All originals were bound in blue over white cloth, with gilt lettering and a gilt emblem on the front cover. As multi-volume sets have been issued sometimes years apart, their appearance is occasionally not uniform.
Our main catalogue entries can be found here.
| Vol Num | Author | Title | Date | Pages | Illus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1, 2 | Laughton, John Knox (ed) | Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 1894, 1894 | lxxxiv, 365; 418 pp | |
| 3 | Hannay, David (ed) | Letters of Sir Samuel Hood | 1895 | 170 pp | b/w frontis |
| 4 | Brassey, T A (ed) | Index to James' Naval History | 1895 | 188 pp | |
| 5 | Markham, Clements R (ed) | Life of Captain Stephen Martin | 1895 | xxxix, 223 pp | b/w plates |
| 6 | James, Bartholomew | Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James1752-1828 | 1896 | ||
| 7 | Holland, John | Holland's Discourses of the Navy | 1896 | lxxxiii, 419 pp | |
| 8 | Oppenheim, M (ed) | Naval Accounts and Inventories of Henry VII | 1896 | lvi, 349 pp | |
| 9 | Browning, Oscar (ed) | Journal of Sir George Rooke | 1897 | xliv, 272 pp | fldg charts |
| 10 | Spont, Alfred | The French War of 1512-13 | 1897 | xlviii, 219 pp | color frontis |
| 11 | Corbett, Julian S (ed) | The Spanish War, 1585-87 | 1898 | xlix, 363 pp | b/w frontis |
| 13, 17, 30, 37, 41, 66 | Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (ed) | First Dutch War, 1652-54 Vol 1 | 1898, 1900, 1905, 1909, 1911, 1930 | 6 vol, various pagination | |
| 14, 21 | Leyland, John (ed) | The Blockade of Brest, 1803-5 Vol 1 | 1898, 1901 | lxvi, 369; liv, 390 pp | b/w frontis, fldg charts |
| 15 | Bridge, Cyprian A (ed) | The Russian Fleet Under Peter the Great | 1899 | xxvi, 161 | |
| 16 | Jackson, T Surges (ed) | Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 | 1899 | 2 vol, xv, 345; 343 pp | color frontis, fldg chart |
| 20, 40, 63, 92,125 | Laughton, John Knox (ed) | The Naval Miscellany | 1901, 1910, 1927,1952, 1984 | 5 vol, various pagination | b/w plate, fldg chart |
| 22,23, 43, 45, 47 | Oppenheim, M (ed) | Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, Vol 1 | 1902, 1912, 1913, 1914 | 5 vol, various pagination | b/w plates, fldg charts |
| 24, 12, 19 | Hamilton, Sir Richard Vesey (ed) | Letters of T Byam Martin, Vol 1 | 1902, 1898, 1900 | 3 vol, various pagination | b/w frontis, b/w plates, color flag chart |
| 25 | Gutteridge, H C (ed) | Nelson at the Napolitan Jacobins | 1903 | cxvii, 351 pp | b/w fldg frontis |
| 26, 27, 36, 57 | Tanner, J R (ed) | Catalogue of the Pepysian Manuscripts | 1903, 1904, 1908, 1922 | 4 vol, various pagination | |
| 28 | Markham, Sir Clements (ed) | Letters of Admiral Markham | 1904 | 451 pp | |
| 29 | Corbett, Julian S (ed) | Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 | 1905 | xvi, 366 pp | |
| 31 | Hamilton, Sir R Vesey, (ed) | Recollections of James Anthony Gardiner | 1906 | xx, 287 pp | |
| 32, 38, 39 | Laughton, Sir John Knox (ed) | Letters of Lord Barham | 1906, 1909, 1910 | 3 vol various pagination | b/w frontis |
| 33 | Firth, C H (ed) | Naval Songs and Ballads | 1907 | cxxiii, 387 pp | |
| 35 | Corbett, Julian S (ed) | Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794 | 1908 | xv, 403 pp | |
| 42 | Richmond, Captain H (ed) | The Loss of Minorca | 1911 | xl, 224 pp | fldg chart |
| 44 | Grant, James (ed) | The Ol Scots Navy, 1689-1710 | 1912 | xxix, 448 pp | b/w frontis |
| 46, 48, 58, 59 | Corbett, Julian S (ed) | The Spencer Papers, 1794-1801 | 1913, 1914, 1923, 1924 | 4 vol various pagination | |
| 49, 50 | Marsden, R G (ed) | Law and Custom of the Sea | 1915, 1916 | 2 vol xl, 561; xxxiii, 457 pp | |
| 51 | Perin, W G (ed) | Phineas Pett | 1917 | xii, 244 pp | |
| 52, 53 | Martin-Leake, Stephen | The Life of Sir John Leake | 1918, 1919 | 2 vol clxii, 333; x, 490 pp | b/w frontis |
| 54 | Manwaring, G E (ed) | Life and Works of Sir Henry Manwaring, Vol 1 | 1920 | xxii, 325 pp | |
| 56 | G. E. Manwaring and W. G. Perrin (eds) | Life and Works of Sir Henry Manwaring, Vol 2 | 1921 | ? pp | |
| 55, 61 | Smith, David Bonner (ed) | Letters of Lord St Vincent | 1921, 1926 | 2 vol, 380; 604 pp | |
| 60 | Tanner, J R (ed) | Samuel Pepy's Naval Minutes | 1925 | xx, 513 pp | |
| 62, 90, 96 | Perrin, W G (ed) | The Keith Papers | 1926, 1950, 1955 | 3 vol various pagination | b/w frontis |
| 64 | Anderson, R C (ed) | Journal of the Earl of Sandwich | 1928 | lxxi, 329 pp | |
| 65 | Perrin, W G (ed) | Boteler's Dialogues | 1929 | xxxvii, 341 pp | |
| 67, 68, 70 | Tunstall, Brian (ed) | The Bying Papers | 1930, 1931, 1933 | 3 vol various pagination | |
| 69, 71, 75, 78 | Barnes, GR and J H Owen, (eds) | The Sandwich Papers, 1771-1782 | 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938 | 4 vol varous pagination | |
| 72 | Jones, C G Pitcairn (ed) | Piracy in the Levant, 1827-8 | 1934 | xxxiii, 325 pp | |
| 73 | Chappell, Edwin (ed) | The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys | 1935 | xlix, 376 pp | |
| 74 | Bullocke, J G (ed) | The Tomlinson Papers | 1935 | xxix, 400 pp | b/w frontis |
| 76 | Powell, J R (ed) | The Letters of Robert Blake | 1937 | xxii, 501 pp | |
| 77 | Bonner-Smith D (ed) | The Barrington Papers Vol 1 | 1937 | 478 pp | b/w frontis |
| 77, 81 | Bonner-Smith D (ed) | The Barrington Papers | 1937, 1941 | 2 vol 478; xxxi, 380 pp | b/w frontis |
| 79, 80 | Anderson, R C (ed) | The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin | 1939, 1940 | 2 vol, xiii, 318; lii, 278 pp | |
| 82 | Boteler, John Harvey | Recollections of my Sea Life, 1808-1830 | 1942 | 272 pp | fldg map |
| 83 | Bonner-Smith, D and A C Dewar (eds) | Russian War, 1854 | 1943 | 434 pp | |
| 84 | Bonner-Smith, D (ed) | Russian War, 1855, Baltic | 1944 | 414 pp | |
| 85 | Dewar, A C (ed) | Russian War, 1855, Black Sea | 1945 | 485 pp | |
| 86 | Anderson, R C (ed) | Journals of the Narratives of the Third Dutch War | 1946 | 447 pp | |
| 87 | Rowbotham, W B (ed) | Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 | 1947 | xv, 331 pp | fldg map |
| 88 | Cranmer-Bying, J L (ed) | Peter Bying's Journal, 1718-1720 | 1948 | xxxii, 311 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 89 | Merriman,R D (ed) | The Sergison Papers | 1949 | 382 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 91 | Thursfield, H G (ed) | Five Naval Journals, 1789-1817 | 1951 | xiii, 400 pp | color frontis, plate, fldg map |
| 93 | Dillon, Sir William Henry | Dillon's Narrative, Vol 1, 1790-1802 | 1953 | xxxiv, 468 pp | b/w frontis, plate, maps |
| 95 | Bonner-Smith, D and E W R Lumby (eds) | The Second China War, 1856-60 | 1954 | xxii, 413 pp | b/w frontis |
| 98 | Hughes, Edward (ed) | Correspondence of Lord Collingwood | 1957 | xiii, 348 pp | b/w frontis |
| 99 | Ranet, B Mcl (ed) | The Vernon Papers | 1958 | xi, 599 pp | b/w frontis, plate, fldg map |
| 100 | Naish, George P B (ed) | Nelson's Letters to his Wife | 1958 | xxxii, 630 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 101 | Lloyd, Christopher and R C Anderson (eds) | A Memoir of James Trevenen | 1959 | xiv, 247 pp | b/w frontis, fldg map |
| 102, 106 | Kemp, P K (ed) | The Fisher Papers Vol 1 | 1960, 1964 | 2 vol xxvi, 413; 468 pp | |
| 104 | Graham, Gerald S and R A Humphries (eds) | The Navy and South America, 1807-1823 | 1962 | xxxxiv, 394 pp | |
| 105 | Powell, J R and E K Timings (eds) | Documents Relating to the Civil War, 1642-48 | 1963 | xvi, 430 pp | |
| 107 | Lloyd, Christopher (ed) | The Health of Seamen | 1965 | 320 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 108, 111 | Patterson, A Temple (ed) | The Jellicoe Papers | 1966, 1968 | 2 vol xi, 315; xiv, 497 pp | b/w frontis |
| 109 | Williams, Glyndwr (ed) | Anson's Voyage 1740-44 | 1967 | ix, 303 pp | b/w frontis, plate, fldg map |
| 110 | Ryan, A N (ed) | The Saumarez Papers, 1808-12 | 1968 | xxv, 287 pp | b/w frontis, fldg map |
| 112 | Powell, J R and E K Timings (eds) | The Rupert and Monck Letter Book, 1666 | 1969 | x, 307 pp | b/w frontis, plates, fldg map |
| 113 | Roskill, S (ed) | The Naval Air Service Vol 1 | 1969 | xvii, 790 pp | |
| 114 | Syrett, David (ed) | The Siege and Capture of Havana, 1762 | 1970 | xxxv, 355 pp | fldg maps, b/w plates |
| 115 | Lumby, E W R (ed) | The Mediterranean, 1912-14 | 1970 | xvi, 481 pp | b/w frontis, fldg chart |
| 115 | Lumby, E W R (ed) | The Mediterranean, 1912-14 | 1970 | xvi, 481 pp | b/w frontis, fldg chart |
| 116 | McGowen, A P (ed) | The Jacobean Commissions of Enquiry, 1608 and 1618 | 1971 | xxvii, 319 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 117 | Halpern, Paul G (ed) | The Keyes Papers Vol 1 | 1979 | xxiv, 547 pp | b/w frontis, fldg map |
| 118 | Gwyn, Julian (ed) | The Royal Navy and North America | 1973 | xlv, 463 pp | b/w frontis, plates |
| 119 | Bromley, J S (ed) | Manning Pamphlets 1693-1873 | 1974 | xliv, 409 pp | |
| 120 | Baugh, Daniel A | Naval Administration, 1715-1750 | 1977 | xv, 523 pp | b/w plate |
| 123 | Rose, Susan (ed) | The Navy of Lancastrian Kings | 1982 | 288 pp | b/w frontis |
| 124 | Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (ed) | The Pollen Papers | 1984 | xv, 400 pp | |
| 126 | Halpern, Paul G (ed) | The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1915-18 | 1987 | xv, 623 pp | fldg maps |
| 127 | Wernham, R B (ed) | The Expedition of Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake to Spain and Portugal, 1589 | 1988 | lxvi, 380 pp | b/w frontis, illus |
| 128 | Ranft, B McL (ed) | The Beatty Papers, Vol 1 | 1989 | xxiv, 600 | b/w frontis |
| 129 | MacKay, Ruddock F (ed) | The Hawke Papers | 1990 | xix, 521 pp | b/w frontis |
| 130 | Simpson, Michael (ed) | Anglo-American Naval Relation, 1917-19 | 1991 | xvii, 648 pp | |
| 131 | Hattendorf, etc (ed) | British Naval Documents, 1204-1960 | 1993 | xviii, 1196 pp | b/w frontis |
| 132 | ed. Professor B. McL. Ranft | The Beatty Papers, vol. II (1916-1927) | |||
| 133 | Transcribed by Professor William Matthews and Dr Charles Knighton; ed. Robert Latham | Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War | |||
| 134 | ed. Michael Simpson, with the assistance of John Somerville. SP. | The Somerville Papers | |||
| 135 | Grainger, John D (ed) | The Royal Navy in the River Plate, 1806-7 | 1996 | xiv, 384 pp | |
| 136 | ed. Professor Nicholas Tracy. A. | Papers relating to the Collective Naval Defence of the Empire, 1900-1940 | |||
| 137 | Dr Eric Grove. A. | The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-1945 | 1997 | 8vo, lxii, (4), xiv, 380, xiv, 33 pp | 126 plates |
| 138 | Brian Lavery. A. | Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 | 1998 | 8vo, xxvi, 656 pp | ill., 1 fold. plate |
| 139 | Professor David Syrett. A. | The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Situations and Trends, 1941-1945 | |||
| 140 | Michael Simpson. A. | The Cunningham Papers, vol. I, The Mediterranean Fleet, 1939-1942 | |||
| 141 | Ed. Dr. R. A. Morriss. | The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest, 1793-1801 | 2001 | ||
| 142 | Ed. Dr. N. Lambert. | The Submarine Service.1900-1918 | 2001 | xliv, 397pp |