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Royal Navy Service Record Help Please.
« on: Tuesday 22 August 17 18:13 BST (UK) »
Hi folks, I'm not really clued up on service records and hope someone can just confirm that I am on the right track.

On this service record, the column headed "Ships' Names" lists each entry as "Pembroke", am I right in thinking that this is a Naval Base of sorts and not the actual vessel name as there is no mention of HMS Galatea, which I know he was aboard at the time of the 1871 census. 

The next column is headed "NO" which I assume is the ship number.  I have found a website for Mercantile Ships that allows me to enter the ship's number and it returns the ship name but can't seem to find one for Royal Navy Ships.  Does anyone know where I can get that information?

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.
MACDONALD:- Glasgow and Ireland possibly Ballymena
McCORMACK - Glasgow and Ireland
DINNEEN -     Glasgow, London, Ramsgate, Suffolk, Co Kerry, Co Cork
NELSON and McLEAN - Ballymena Antrim

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Re: Royal Navy Service Record Help Please.
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 22 August 17 18:34 BST (UK) »
HMS Pembroke the Royal Navy Barracks Chatham.

No  refers to the number in the ships book.

Others may have other ideas.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Royal Navy Service Record Help Please.
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 22 August 17 18:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much Jebber.
MACDONALD:- Glasgow and Ireland possibly Ballymena
McCORMACK - Glasgow and Ireland
DINNEEN -     Glasgow, London, Ramsgate, Suffolk, Co Kerry, Co Cork
NELSON and McLEAN - Ballymena Antrim