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The Museum has extensive collections of books, photographs, paintings, prints and manuscripts about the Royal Navy to help in your research. The official records for the Royal Navy are held at the National Archives

An introduction to the National Maritime Museum's research guides on the Royal Navy and how you can use the resources available to explore its history

This research guide is a brief introduction to the main records held by the National Maritime Museum, which has the most comprehensive maritime library in the world. It contains over 100,000 printed books dating from 1474 to the present day, 20,000 pamphlets, over 8,000 rare books, 4,500 periodicals, 500 current maritime/naval history titles, specialist journals, microforms and a selection of CD-ROMS

This guide gives a brief introduction to the Board of Trade's official list of all British registered ships

This guide is a brief introduction to maritime records that you can use to discover more about your ancestors, family history or famous people. It is intended to help you get started on your research, using the National Maritime Museum's library and archives and other resources outside the museum.

Advice on beginning your research at Royal Museums Greenwich

A resource pack full of objects, paintings and archival sources plus classroom activities and background information. This pack explores the stories of Black Tudors such as John Blanke, Diego, Jacques Francis and Cattelena of Almondsbury.

As long as there have been military campaigns there has been espionage. Here we look at some examples of written intelligence from spies which can be found in the Caird Library and Archive