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Question:After a short fight the Good Hope and Monmouth were both sunk, with the loss of all 1,600 crewmen. Any ideas.?

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I've just looked it up in my book "Tracing Your Naval Ancestors", and most of what I wrote originally is a bit misleading.

I originally advised looking up the ships muster book / ledger at the National Archives in Kew. This would work in the 1800s (up until 1878), but the series from 1878-1909 were destroyed in a fire in 1941, and no records appear to survive after this date either. Possibly the Navy introduced a new method of pay by then, otherwise they would be available.

Details of the distribution of British ships and losses in home and foreign waters can be found in series ADM 186 (for example, sections 12-15 cover 1915). Whether it will list the crew on board at the time is unclear. HM ships did not apparently keep official war diaries. Ship’s logs, arranged by ships name and date, should be found in series ADM/53, though they don’t normally concern themselves with personnel matters, merely weather conditions, ships movements and routine duties. In any case, presumably the ships logs went down with the ship in 1914.

There IS a list of all Royal Navy personnel who died between 1914-1920 in the First World War – BUT – and here is the rub – the two lists (one for commissioned and warrant officers and the other for ordinary ratings) are arranged strictly by surname, and then by ship, place of death, if body was recovered, etc. They can be found in series ADM/242. I don’t know how many sailors died in WW1, but I’d hazard a guess that it is well into five figures. Searching all those rolls of film from A-Z (series ADM/242/7 for example covers surnames of ratings from Abbas-Cutmore and ADM/242/8 covers names Dabbs-Knowles) would take some considerable time to scan through every name and take note of what ship they died on. It would also be quite easy to miss someone from the list. Staring at microfilm is not easy at the best of times.

Needless to say, the news does not look promising. It’s doable for sure, but would take weeks to sift through all those thousands of names. You can only hope that somewhere else in the Admiralty files at Kew there is actually a proper list that was compiled at the time so that next of kin could be informed and that the list has survived.

Try this link

http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm

Go to the library, or try the net. The library of congress in DC will have it somewhere, and so will a few other places there.

you could try the war graves commission

kate

Try...

http://www.coronel.org.uk/

Good luck.

Try contacting th British Embassy. Someone may be able to answer your question.

I just went on to Yahoo search and Put in Casualties of the Battle of Coronel November 1,1914 and came up with Quite a list of Saliors. You Might try that. bjwill72961@yahoo.com

I am not sure but I use one website more than any other for positive information. Try my favorite website below.

The French and the British armies halted the German forces invading France. From then on war on the Western Front became a trench-based slogging match. This was as known as the battle of Marne 1914.
The First battle of Ypres when the German forces trying to reach Calais and lost 150,000 men. British and French armies thwarted the attack losing more than 100,000 men.
I don't know how the navy got on but thanks for the information you have given me, I am very greatfull.

Sorry, it's a bit more work, but here's directions to the index from some researchers who also went down this path.

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/...

Good luck, I'll keep looking. I love the history stuff....

The Admiralty did publish a list of the casualties, according to the New York Times, but the Times PDF I found only listed the captains. The home port newspapers would no doubt have this information in their morgues...