Armstrong, Lt G E, Torpedoes and Torpedo-Vessels (George Bell, London, 1896).
Brook, Peter, Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927 (World Ship Society, Kendal, 1999).
Brown, D K, Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship Development 1860–1905 (Chatham, London, 1997).
Brown, D K, The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906– 1922 (Chatham, London, 1999).
Brown, D K, Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Design and Development 1923–1945 (Chatham, London, 2000).
Brown, D K, Atlantic Escorts (Chatham, London, 2007).
Colledge, J J, Ships of the Royal Navy Vol I: Major Ships (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1969).
Dittmar, F J, and J J Colledge, British Warships 1914–1919 (Ian Allan, London, 1972).
English, John, Amazon to Ivanhoe: British Standard Destroyers of the 1930s (World Ship Society, Kendal, 1993).
Gardiner, Robert, Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860–1905 (Conway, London, 1979).
Gardiner, Robert, Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (Conway, London, 1980).
Gardiner, Robert, Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906–1921 (Conway, London, 1985).
Hague, Arnold, Destroyers for Great Britain: A History of 50 Town Class Ships Transferred from the United States to Great Britain in 1940 (World Ship Society, Kendal, 1988).
Hodges, Peter, and Norman Friedman, Destroyer Weapons of World War II (Conway, London, 1979).
Lambert, Nicholas A, Australia’s Naval Inheritance: Imperial Maritime Strategy and the Australia Station 1880–1909 (Royal Australian Navy, Canberra, 1998).
Lambert, Nicholas A, Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1999).
Layman, R D, Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence (Chatham, London, 1996).
Le Fleming, H M, Warships of World War I: Destroyers (Ian Allan, London, c.1962); for destroyer dispositions 1914 and 1918.
Lenton, H T, British and Empire Warships of the Second World War (Greenhill, London, and Naval Institute Presa, Annapolis, 1998).
Lyon, David, The First Destroyers (Chatham, London, 1996). Lyon, David, and Rif Winfield, The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 (Chatham, London, 2004).
March, Edgar J, British Destroyers 1893–1953 (Seeley Service, London, 1966).
Ranft, Bryan (ed.), Technical Change and British Naval Policy 1860–1939 (Hodder & Stoughton, Sevenoaks, 1977).
Raven, Alan, and John Roberts, ‘V and W’ Class Destroyers (RSV, New York, 1979; Man O’War 2).
Roskill, Stephen A, Naval Policy Between the Wars (Collins, London, 1968 and 1976).
Sleeman, G, Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare (Griffin, Portsmouth, 1889).
Armament List (CB 1773 for April 1938; includes fire control computers).
British Mining Operations 1939–1945 (BR 1736 (p6)).
Destroyer Attack Instructions (CB 01721, 1933).
Destroyer Fighting Instructions (CB 01986, for 1942–5).
Destroyer Fire Control System and Director Firing Gear as Fitted in Destroyers (ex-Brazilian) of the ‘Havant’ Class (BR 911A).
Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers, 1918 (CB 1461, 1461A).
Director Handbook: Instruments Fitted in C and later Classes of Flotilla
Leaders and Destroyers (CB 1925 (12), 1937).
The Employment of Cruisers and Destroyers (NID 801, September 1906, by Vice Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker).
Fighting Experience (World War II: CB 04211).
Flotilla Cruising and Night Cruising Orders and Torpedo Attack by Destroyer Flotillas On Enemy’s Battle Fleet (Grand Fleet memorandum HF 0034/137, 11 November 1917).
Handbook of Fire Control in TBDs of M Class and Later, and Flotilla Leaders 1915 (ADM 186/878).
Handbook of the Fuze Keeping Clock and Associated Equipment (Including the Fire Control Box) (BR 913).
Handbook for Naval Rangefinders and Inclinometers (BR 925).
High-Speed Submarine Sweep (CB 1300, 1917).
Home Fleet Destroyers: Instructions for Training (1910).
List of HM Ships Showing Their Armaments (published twice annually, April 1914–October 1919).
Orders for Torpedo Boat Destroyers: The Nore (1902).
Particulars of Foreign War Vessels (CB 1815, 1940 and later editions).
Particulars of War Vessels and Aircraft (British Commonwealth of Nations) (CB01815: produced twice yearly, consulted for 1939–45).
Steam Ships of England (CB 1294, the list of British warships and their characteristics, published twice each year between 1866 and 1918; it did not include torpedo boats except for the ex-coastal destroyers).
Technical Histories (published 1919–21, with TH numbers; topics include convoy operations, modifications to gun armament, and ASW weapons and research).
Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet (Vol III was the only official tabulation of torpedo boat data, and this part seems to have been dropped some time after 1898).
Armstrong Design Portfolio 4.
Designers’ notebooks (see footnotes).
DNC notebook of Sir E T D’Eyncourt.
Lyon, David, The Thornycroft List.
Thurston Notebooks.
First-class torpedo boats (65).
Polyphemus (78).
Scout and Fearless (97).
First-class torpedo boats (100).
Spider class torpedo gunboats (106).
Sharpshooter class torpedo gunboats (108, 108A, 108B).
Archer class torpedo cruisers (113).
Vulcan torpedo depot ship (118).
TBDs 26 and 27kt (128–128C).
Alarm class torpedo gunboats (129).
First class TB 88–97 (130).
Halcyon class torpedo gunboats (137).
Ariel class 30-knot destroyers (142).
Turbine destroyers (154).
Destroyers 30-knotters 1898 and later (165–165B).
Torpedo boats 98–99, 107–117 (166, 166A).
River class (184–184E).
Scout cruisers (189–189B).
New destroyers (follow-on Rivers, 1904) (200).
Tribal class (211–211E).
Coastal destroyers (214–214C).
Swift (217, 217A).
Coastal destroyers (TB 25–36)(235, 235A).
Beagle class (242–242B).
Acorn Class (246–246C).
Blanche and Blonde (252).
Destroyers 1912 (259–259B).
Destroyer ‘specials’ 1910–11 (262).
Destroyers for Australia and Yarrow ‘specials’ (Firedrake etc.) (264).
Hardy (270).
Acasta class (271, 271A).
Foreign destroyers (274 for 1911, 274A for 1918–37).
Destroyer ‘specials’ for 1911–12 (277, 277A).
(Destroyers 1911 is missing).
L class (284–284C).
M class (298–298C).
M class ‘specials’ (316–316B, but Mentor etc. are missing (317)).
Lightfoot class leaders (321–321D; D includes modified ships).
Destroyers 1914–15 design (abortive) (329).
New Polyphemus (333A–333 is a depot ship).
Talisman class (348).
Medea class (349).
R class (362–362B).
Destroyers general (from 1915 on) (376–376G).
V class (377–377A).
Modified R class (379).
Shakespeare class leaders (380).
Scott class leaders (382, 382A).
Destroyers 1917 (abortive) (383).
V and W class 1916 (385–385C).
Thornycroft V and W and Repeat W (387, 387A).
Yarrow 305-foot design (394).
S class (397–397C; 397D missing).
Thornycroft M class specials (398).
Thornycroft Modified Rosalind design (399).
Repeat W class (403–403B).
Shakespeare class (410).
(general destroyer cover for 1918 – 412 is missing).
Foreign destroyers 1911–17 (426).
Amazon and Ambuscade (435, 435A).
Acasta class 1927 (454, 454A).
Codrington flotilla leader (455).
Beagle class 1928 (466, 466A).
Keith flotilla leader (467).
Crusader class (474, 474A).
Kempenfelt leader (476).
Defender class (488, 488A).
Duncan flotilla leader (489).
Exmouth flotilla leader (492).
Eclipse class (493, 493A).
Fearless class (515).
Faulknor flotilla leader (519).
Greyhound class (526).
Grenville flotilla leader (527).
H and I class (531).
Inglefield leader (532).
Brazilian H class (619).
Ex-American destroyers and coast guard cutters (657).
Turkish I class (692, 692A).
Captured German destroyers 1918–23 (ADM 138/621, no ship cover number).