Any sailor dying at sea would have his service record marked DD (Discharged Dead). This procedure still exists today. Mike Waterlooville

Hi Mike and others. Thanks. Is there any way to search for such deaths, without the service record? In other words, the Public Records Office keeps a record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths which can be searched online through some family history sites, with the death registered in a given county. I actually have the original service record of my ggrandfather, showing his death and it doesn't show up in a search of BMDs. I am wondering if there is a set of records for seamen who die away from home, either at sea or on foreign soil. (Unfortunately, a number of my British ancestors chose a life at sea...hard to track them.) I understand that there are fairly extensive records kept of service on the sea. I have read that pre-1914 naval officers and ratings in the RN are kept at The Public Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey. I have also read that these records can only be searched in person. Any further info on that from this group? (And yes, our weather is also very unseasonable...has been too warm...first time in living memory that Nova Scotia was hit by a category 2 hurricane a few years ago.) Lynne Quoting [email protected]: > Any sailor dying at sea would have his service record marked DD (Discharged > Dead). This procedure still exists today. > > Mike > > Waterlooville > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >