Extract from the Naval Regs: food for a 3 month trip

[Gogargirl]

Aha! Thanks for this Dave. I have spent many a long hour with my nose in the London (or Edinburgh) Gazette seearching for military or business information, so have never picked up on one of these notices before.

[BDS48]

I find the London Gazette to be a bit of a chore at times - but easier than thumbing through hard copy, so grateful for the online source. I use the keyword search at the top of the page and take it from there.

[Gogargirl]

I use the keyword search at the top of the page and take it from there.

Always assuming you can trust the OCR recognition which I find can be very patchy!

Also, there isn't much consistency used in officer naming - e.g sometimes with full names, sometimes partial initials - you can end up doing a lot of searches. I find searching for soldiers (ORs) easier by their number than by name. Which leads me to ask: did naval ratings have numbers, or how were they known?

[BDS48]

Yes. Horses for courses, I suppose. I've used the 'number' technique for First World War research and had to wade through countless pages of volume and page numbers. Re: Naval Ratings Service Numbers - The National Archives has some interesting background on the issuing of service numbers between 1853 -1923 on their 'Documents Online' and the files held in the ADM Series. I am not sure how The Admiralty Board stands on links to other sites, otherwise I would drop the link in for ease of access.

Dave

[TheBibliophile]

Hi Dave,

If it's relevant to the discussion and isnt infringing any copyright, theres no prob...

[BDS48]

Thanks for the clarification, Keith

The National Archives: Royal Naval Seamen (1853 - 1923)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/docu ... ervice.asp

There is also a Trafalgar Relatives Database and collection of the French Muster Rolls within Documents Online; including Research Guides covering Royal Navy Ratings' Service Records (1667 - 1923) and Pay and Pension, Admirals Journals; Masters' Logs, Captains' Logs, Lieutenants' Logs, and where to find these documents in archives other than TNA - eg: The National Maritime Museum.

Cheers
Dave

[TheBibliophile]

Thanks for the clarification, Keith

The National Archives: Royal Naval Seamen (1853 - 1923)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/docu ... ervice.asp

There is also a Trafalgar Relatives Database and collection of the French Muster Rolls within Documents Online; including Research Guides covering Royal Navy Ratings' Service Records (1667 - 1923) and Pay and Pension, Admirals Journals; Masters' Logs, Captains' Logs, Lieutenants' Logs, and where to find these documents in archives other than TNA - eg: The National Maritime Museum.

Cheers
Dave

Dave,

I've mucked about with the NA site but never managed to get far...is there much on Trafalgar and Navy of that era that you have been able to locate or is it only lists of docs that you have to order copies of?