Royal Naval Reserve

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History

In 1859 the Royal Naval Volunteers were established by act of Parliament. The preamble to the legislation explained:

Whereas it is expedient that there should be a reserve volunteer force of seamen for service in Her Majesty's fleet in time of emergency, and that the seamen composing such force should be duly entered and trained.

The maximum number of men was set at 30,000, and [1]

By the Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, masters, mates and engineers in the merchant service were permitted "to serve as officers of reserve to the Royal Navy."[2]

Practical Research Considerations

The Service Records of R.N.R. men in the ADM 240 and ADM 340 tranches of The National Archives are considerably harder to read than those of Royal Navy men. Profuse, verbose, faintly written in a shoddy hand, and largely consumed with details of no practical interest – it is hard to know what these men did by reading their Service Records. — TONY LOVELL, Editor.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "An Act for the Establishment of a Reserve Force of Seamen, and for the Government of the same." 22 & 23 Victoria, c. 40.
  2. ↑ An Act to establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve." 26 & 27 Victoria, c. 69.

Bibliography

  • Dawson, Captain Lionel. (1935). Flotillas: A Hard-Lying Story. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd.

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