Victualling Commissioners
The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the Navy Board for victualling ships of the British Royal Navy. It oversaw the vast operation of providing naval personnel (140,000 men in 1810) with enough food, drink and supplies to keep them fighting fit, sometimes for months at a time, in whatever part of the globe they might be stationed.It existed from 1683 until 1832 when its function was first replaced by the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services until 1869 then that office was also abolished and replaced by the Victualling Department.
1902 Coronation HonoursActive (1764 ship)Admiralty in the 17th centuryAdmiralty in the 18th centuryAlexander (1801 ship)Anthony Deane (mayor)Charles CunninghamCharles LockCommissioner of the Victualling OfficeCommissioners for the victualling of the NavyController of Victualling AccountsDenzil Onslow of PyrfordEast India CompanyEdward Richard StewartFirst Lord of the AdmiraltyFrancis Haskins Eyles-StilesGeorge CrowleGeorge Frederick CherryGeorge HuxleyGeorge Saunders (Royal Navy officer)GosportHMS BuffaloHMS Jackal (1801)HM Victualling Yard, DeptfordHenry CortHenry Lee (Canterbury MP)Henry Parsons (English politician)Horatio TownshendJamaica Dockyard
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Victualling Commissioners
The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the Navy Board for victualling ships of the British Royal Navy. It oversaw the vast operation of providing naval personnel (140,000 men in 1810) with enough food, drink and supplies to keep them fighting fit, sometimes for months at a time, in whatever part of the globe they might be stationed.It existed from 1683 until 1832 when its function was first replaced by the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services until 1869 then that office was also abolished and replaced by the Victualling Department.
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