Navy Records Online is an ever-expanding online archive of miscellaneous British naval records and is the internet publishing arm of the Navy Records Society (est. 1893).
Become a MemberFor £20 a year members will receive exclusive access to the latest discoveries and will be able to browse the online archive of charts, portraits, cartoons, logs, letters, diaries, battle plans, sketchbooks, photograph albums and videos. Our goal is to preserve significant naval records of every type. Read More
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French Plans of the Battle of the Nile, 1798
These plans come from a magnificent collection of battle dispatches held in the British Library (Add. MSS 23207). All of the admirals's dispatches from the major fleet battles 1794-1806 were gathered together by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1821 and then... Read More
Napoleon’s Wine
Admiral Cockburn, Governor of St Helena, writes to the Admiralty concerning the importance of good claret when a former emperor is in exile. Napoleon, Emperor of France, abdicated in 1814 and was exiled to the island of Elba, in the Mediterranean, where ... Read More
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