Resources for finding names, ranks & rates, uniforms & badges

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US Navy names

Register of the commissioned and warrant officers and cadets of the United States Coast Guard in the order of precedence
List of regular and reserve commissioned and warrant officers on active duty in order of precedence, and temporary members of the reserve, including living retired officers for the years 1921 to 1940.
Presented in five-year volumes and digitized by the Hathi Trust Digital Library at the University of Michigan.
Years 1915-1918 also available here at that Library.

Officers: Continental and US Navy & Marine Corps 1775-1900

List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900
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Annual reports of the Navy Department. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Miscellaneous reports (various years)
Some list men cited for their actions and/or killed including Coast Guard and Marines.

The records of living officers of the U. S. Navy and Marine corps: with a history of naval operations during the rebellion of 1861-5, and a list of the ships and officers participating in the great battles by Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, (1870)

The records of living officers of the U.S. Navy & Marine corps : compiled from official sources by Lewis R. Hamersly (1878)

The records of living officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine corps by Hamersly, Lewis Randolph (1894)

Registers of the commissioned and warrant officers and cadets of the United States Coast Guard
1915-1951 (some missing)
1916 to 1944 (some missing)
1948-67 (except 1961)

List of regular and reserve commissioned and warrant officers on active duty in order of precedence, and temporary members of the reserve (1941 & 1944)

United States Revenue Cutter Service Officers Register of July 1, 1892

United States Revenue Cutter Service Officer Rosters 1791-1844

US Coast Guard Officers (1944)

United States Marine Corps Officers (1942)

Admirals in the US Navy 1862-1900

Navy Personnel: A Research Guide by Naval History and Heritage Command

Historical Register US Revenue Cutter Service Officers 1790-1914 by Dennis L Noble
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Register of the Officers and Vessels of the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States,1896

Register of the Officers and Vessels of the Revenue-cutter Service of the United States, July 1906 & 1907

World War 1 at Sea: United States Navy, Coast Guard & Marine Corps Casualties, Killed and Died
List provided by Naval-History.Net.

United States Navy, Coast Guard & Marine Corps Casualties WWII
List provided by Naval-History.Net.

Registers of the Commissioned Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps 1775-1970
and
Registers of the Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Reserve
Some also at: https://archive.org/details/registerofcommi1908wash

National Maritime Digital Library
Fall River Whaling Crew Lists
San Francisco Shanghaied, a database containing the names, vessels and shipping agents for late 19th century San Francisco vessels.
The American Offshore Whaling Voyages Database, a project of the The World Whaling History
The Whaleman's Shipping List, the main source of information on American whaling vessels throughout the second half of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.

An Index to the annual Registers of the Commissioned Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps
1802-1973, as submitted to Congress.
Not all registers are searchable.

Compilation of Enlisted Ratings and Apprenticeships, US Navy, 1775 to 1969

American whaler crews

British whaler crews 1775-1859

Dreadnought Project: People

Journey Plotter's Research Resources: People

The Internet Surname Database
Surnames, their histories and alternative spellings.
Linked sites may charge search fees.

Wikipedia: Abbreviations for English given names

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US uniforms

Uniform for the Navy of the United States of America 1797
Uniform regulations 1841
Uniform regulations 1852
Regulations governing the uniforms for warrant officers and enlisted persons of the United States Coast Guard, 1916
U.S. Navy Nurse Corps General Uniform Instructions 1917
Women's Uniform for Yeomen (F) 1918
Women's Reserve, United States Naval Reserve 1943

Uniforms, Insignia and Awards

pdfs from http://www.siamcostumes.com/cutters_guides/pdf/:

1908 US Revenue Cutter Service Uniform Regulations
1905 Uniforms and Insignia of the US Navy
1905 Uniforms US Navy
1861-1975 Uniforms of the Marine Corps and Navy

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Royal Navy names, ranks and badges

British Military/Navy lists
1913, 1914, 1918, 1919, 1920 and more
Find the appropriate month and year, then find your ship in the Ships - Alphabetical List of, with their Officers, and present Stations section
Maintained by the National Library of Scotland

Royal Navy Ranks and Badges WWI

Ranks, Professions, Trades, Pay & Allowances, and Badges of Rank 1942

1943 Ranks and Badges of the Navy, Army, RAF and Auxiliaries
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A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases; Biographical Notices, and Records of Naval Officers; Special Articles of Naval Art and Science
Useful for all sorts of things ...