Navy Records Society

The Navy Records Society is a British company founded in 1893 for the publication of scientific source texts and monographs on British naval history, and especially the Royal Navy. Its founders, the naval historian John Knox Laughton (1830-1915), Professor at the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth and later Greenwich, and Admiral Cyprian Bridge (1839-1924), head of the Marine reconnaissance at the Admiralty, then followed the example of similar societies such as the Camden Society ( publication of historical texts about English history ) and the Hakluyt Society. The founding members included Samuel Rawson Gardiner and overseas naval historian and Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. Knox was its secretary until 1912, when the company also openly pursued the goal of shaping their publications on the British fleet policy.

Other important members were Julian Corbett (1854-1922), Michael Lewis, Christopher Lloyd, Admiral Herbert Richmond (1871-1946), Nicholas Rodger and Andrew Lambert.

By 2006, they published some 150 volumes of documents and on average they publish in two volumes.

President 's Fleet Admiral Benjamin Bathurst and patron, the Duke of Edinburgh.