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	The Royal Fleet Auxiliary - Unofficially! - Provides a look at the Royal Fleet Auxiliary service and a place to look up old shipmates.
	Andrew Betts' Unofficial Royal Navy Homepage - A site containing information on all current, and some future, ships and aircraft of the Royal Navy.
	Service Years - Personal site about James (JIM) Stewart's service in the Royal Navy. Also trying to find out more about him. Site maintained by his son.
	Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 - Covers British and Commonwealth naval aviation history, with 1000 pages about Royal Navy squadron units, aircraft, aircraft carriers, museums, research and veteran memorial honour rolls.
	Adventures of a Royal Navy Medic in WW II - The autobiographical account of a Royal Navy Medic from 1923 through the Secord World War.
	Old oppos find your old navy friends - Are you looking for old shipmates or just remembering those runs ashore Trying to organise a reunion and need to contact your old oppos maybe just interested in a pictorial history of life in the Royal Navy since the Second World War.
	Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Webring - Dedicated to maintaining the bond of Royal Navy and Commonwealth naval aviation and its heritage of aircraft, air squadrons, ships, men and women.
	Dave Bell - Photos and narrative of his 24 years in the Royal Navy.
	Jimbo - Photos and narrative of his time in the Royal Navy.
	Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) - History, pages for each command area, and photos.
	Naval-History.net - Data about the navies, battles, ships, and losses of World War 1, the inter-war years, World War 2, and the Falklands War. Most material is about the United Kingdom, but other countries are represented as well.
	Unofficial Naval History - Dedicated to the men and women of the Royal Navy. Includes the RND, Q-Ships, naval events, naval personnel, ships badges, and photos.
	HMS Jamaica Veterans Association - Photo and reunion information.
	Graphical RFA - Collection of pictures of the men and ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, past present and future.
	HMS Falcon - Royal Navy Gunboats in China and the Far East - This site discusses the history of Royal Navy river gunboats operating on the Yangtze River and in the Far East from 1897 to 1945. Photographs of the ships are presented.
	Samoa Hurricane 1889 - The circumstances surrounding the escape of HMS Calliope from the devastating storm at Apia, March 1889 which destoyed American and German warships and stopped a war.
	HMS Phoebe Association - The official web site of the HMS Phoebe Association, giving details of membership, lists of members and dates of social events.
	HMS Sirius Royal Navy Leander Class Frigate 1966-1994 - A site dedicated to HMS Sirius, a Royal Navy Leander Class Frigate F40, from 1966 to 1994, including information and photos about reunions of her crew.

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