Notes
- For Britain's naval pedigree and interests in the Indian Ocean, see Graham Gerald Great Britain in the Indian Ocean, 1810–1850: A Study in Maritime Enterprise Clarendon Press Oxford 1967 and Graham, ‘The Indian Ocean: From the Cape to Canton’ in Graham, The Politics of Naval Supremacy: Studies in British Maritime Ascendancy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965).
- Brown , James . 1980 . Admiralty House and the Royal Navy at Trincomalee, 1810–1957 , Naval Historical Branch .
- Interview with Captain Paddy Vincent London 2006 May
- See Speller Ian A Splutter of Musketry?: The British Military Response to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute, 1951 Contemporary British History 2003 17 1
- March 2006 . Jack Calston to Ashley Jackson March , 21, including copy of original summary of ports visited and distances travelled during the commission.
- September 2005 . Frank Fountain to Ashley Jackson September , 18, including original Commission list of ports visited and dates of visits.
- September 2005 . Peter Relf to Ashley Jackson September , 6
- October 2005 . Peter Relf to Ashley Jackson October , 15
- http://www.royalmarinesband.co.uk/history/eastindies.htm (http://www.royalmarinesband.co.uk/history/eastindies.htm) found on 13 July 2005
- http://www.axfordsabode.or.uk. (http://www.axfordsabode.or.uk.)
- http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/ceylon.htm (http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/ceylon.htm) found on 14 March 2006
- Hampshire , Cecil . 1975 . The Royal Navy Since 1945: Its Transition to the Nuclear Age , 140 – 140 . London : William Kimber .
- Hampshire . 1975 . The Royal Navy Since 1945: Its Transition to the Nuclear Age , 141 – 144 . London : William Kimber .
- Hampshire . 1975 . The Royal Navy Since 1945: Its Transition to the Nuclear Age , 141 – 144 . London : William Kimber .
- Hampshire . 1975 . The Royal Navy Since 1945: Its Transition to the Nuclear Age , 144 – 144 . London : William Kimber .
- This theme is developed in Jackson Ashley Imperial Defence in the Post-Imperial Era Old World Order: Themes in British Imperial Defence, 1856–1956 Kennedy Greg Frank Cass London 2006 in
- See Bristow Damon The Five Power Defence Arrangements: Southeast Asia's Unknown Regional Security Organization Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International Strategic Affairs 2005 27 1
- Chin , Warren . 2005 . “ Operations in a War Zone: The Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf in the 1980s ” . In The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century , Edited by: Speller , Ian . London : Frank Cass . For BIOT, see Robert Aldrich and John Connel, The Last Colonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- See East of Suez, West of Mumbai Navy News 2006 April 18 19