Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author’s notes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Tables and Maps
- Maps
- 1 Introduction: Historiography and Early History of Victualling
- 2 The Core Tasks: Obtaining and Distributing Bulk Supplies of Food, Drink and Victualling Stores
- 3 Delivery at Home: Issuing Victuals to Warships and Managing the Victualling Yards
- 4 Delivery Abroad for Warships, Army Garrisons and Military Expeditions
- 5 Non-Core and Ad Hoc Tasks
- 6 Head Office Staff
- 7 Yard Staff
- 8 Theft, Fraud and Other Misdemeanours
- 9 Parliamentary Inquiries
- 10 Parliamentary Inquiries
- Appendix A Substitute Provisions
- Appendix B An Account of the Expense of Victualling 110,000 Men 226 for Lunar Months
- Appendix C Victualling Commissioners: Biographic Details
- Appendix D Staff numbers at Somerset Place
- Appendix E Head Office Staff Salaries
- Appendix F Establishment of Officers and Clerks at the Victualling Yard at Deptford, as Proposed by the Board of Revision
- Appendix G Victualling Board Purchases of Cattle from Smithfield Market
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author’s notes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Tables and Maps
- Maps
- 1 Introduction: Historiography and Early History of Victualling
- 2 The Core Tasks: Obtaining and Distributing Bulk Supplies of Food, Drink and Victualling Stores
- 3 Delivery at Home: Issuing Victuals to Warships and Managing the Victualling Yards
- 4 Delivery Abroad for Warships, Army Garrisons and Military Expeditions
- 5 Non-Core and Ad Hoc Tasks
- 6 Head Office Staff
- 7 Yard Staff
- 8 Theft, Fraud and Other Misdemeanours
- 9 Parliamentary Inquiries
- 10 Parliamentary Inquiries
- Appendix A Substitute Provisions
- Appendix B An Account of the Expense of Victualling 110,000 Men 226 for Lunar Months
- Appendix C Victualling Commissioners: Biographic Details
- Appendix D Staff numbers at Somerset Place
- Appendix E Head Office Staff Salaries
- Appendix F Establishment of Officers and Clerks at the Victualling Yard at Deptford, as Proposed by the Board of Revision
- Appendix G Victualling Board Purchases of Cattle from Smithfield Market
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815Management Competence and Incompetence, pp. 241 - 244Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010