naval records
Seafaring military documents
Naval records are official documents pertaining to a navy—service histories, ship logs, personnel files, battle reports, and administrative paperwork.
Genealogists consult naval records to trace ancestors who served at sea.
The term also covers records of vessels themselves: The naval records show the ship was decommissioned in 1945.
- ship logsVessel's official travel records
- war diariesWritten records from combat
- battle reportsAccounts of military engagements
- casualty listsRecords of war's dead
- ship manifestsLists of vessel contents
expedition journals · maritime charts · training manuals · maintenance schedules · discharge papers
- naval recordsship logs, captain's log, war diaries, duty rosters, ship manifests
- historical recordsdiary, annual reviews, letter, census data, census returns
- Civil War recordsbattle maps, Union Army, casualty lists, Union soldiers, Confederate soldiers
- colonial recordscolonial maps, land deeds, property deeds, court documents, royal decrees
- military recordsafter action report, military rosters, military archives, personnel files, enlistment papers
- naval museumsship models, officer uniforms, sailor uniforms, war memorabilia, war relics