Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. The title page for the first List is missing, but internal evidence supports that it is for  January 1878. There were also Monthly Naval Lists issued for the months when a Quarterly Navy List was not published.  Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Michigan https://books.google.com/books?id=okmigeDY8EECThe Navy List January 1878 digital page 8 https://archive.org/details/navy-list-1878-janapr/page/n7/mode/2up The Navy List April 1878 digital page 572 https://archive.org/details/navy-list-1878-janapr/page/n571/mode/2upThe Navy List January 1879 digital page 1168 https://archive.org/details/navy-list-1878-janapr/page/n1167/mode/2upThe Navy List April 1879 digital page 1756 https://archive.org/details/navy-list-1878-janapr/page/n1755/mode/2up