HMS NHS invites volunteers to transcribe 100 years of seafarer’s medical data from the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital at Greenwich. The project is led by Royal Museums Greenwich.

This page provides access to the document images for HMS NHS and to the data transcribed by project volunteers. We are hugely grateful to everyone who contributed.

Project data

View images of records used in the project via the part 1 and part 2 Zooniverse indices

Download the data transcribed by volunteers in part 1 of the project, as zip or tar.xz

Download the data transcribed by volunteers in part 2 of the project, as zip or tar.xz

Click here for notes on the data

The 'part 2' data consists of all classifications for volumes 19-34, inclusive.

Data from 'test' workflow versions are excluded.

The 'part 2' data does not overlap with the 'part 1' data except that the classifications with ids 392796932 and 392798956 also appear in 'part 1'.

Pseudonyms based upon hash of IP address (that is, pseudonyms with prefix 'anon:') are thought not to be comparable with pseudonyms from other data drops of this project.

Project record

Download screenshots of guidance given to volunteers as zip or tar.xz. This guidance describes the phase 2 workflows, but guidance for phase 1 will have been similar. One notable difference is that phase 1 workflows do not have extra entry boxes for unusually long columns.

Watch videos demonstrating the project by clicking here.

HMS NHS has a large number of workflows. We have recorded three tutorial videos to be representative of the kinds of workflows included in the project.

Details of all of the workflows in phase 2 can be seen in the screenshots of guidance, linked above.

Admission Number Video walkthrough of 'Admission Number', a number workflow.
Name Video walkthrough of 'Name', a text workflow.
Quality Video walkthrough of 'Quality', a dropdown workflow.

Information on reuse

The records of the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital are Public Records (Crown copyright), held by the National Maritime Museum as an official place of deposit under the terms of the Public Records Acts. The images of these records are used online by the National Maritime Museum with permission from Ancestry.

The images are made available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Users can view but not download the images. Users can re-use the images for non-commercial research, education or private study only.

The data are transcriptions of Public Records, which are also covered by Crown Copyright. The data is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL), which is compatible with CC BY 4.0 licence. Users can copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt the data for both commercial and non-commercial use.

Citation information

Any use of the images or data from HMS NHS should credit 'National Maritime Museum' as the source.

Data removal

To request removal of data contributed by or pertaining to you, please contact research@nationalarchives.gov.uk.