Find your ancestors in Royal Navy Registers of Seaman's Services, 1925-1929

What can these records tell me?

This series of registers covers the period after the introduction of a revised pay code for naval entrants and marines in September 1925, because the Admiralty wished to distinguish any recruits entering under the new pay code. This series is therefore a continuation of the registers within ADM 188, found within our British Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1924 collection.

This series contains Royal Navy Registers of Seaman's Services, arranged numerically giving date of birth, ship or shore establishment and an account of service. The covering dates relate to the dates of opening the registers. Entries in them continue for many years according to the length of service of each seaman.

Did you know?

You may find a letter at the start of the seaman's service number. The letter signifies the role that the seaman would have performed on the ship.

  • F - Fleet Air Arm.
  • J - Seaman and Communications Branch.
  • K - Stokers.
  • L - Officers' Cooks and Stewards.
  • M - Miscellaneous.
  • SS - Short Service, Seamen and Stokers.
  • SSX - Short Service Seamen.
  • Pensioners - no prefix.