During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from less than 20,000 to over 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them. The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its...

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Main Author:	Macdonald, Janet (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk Boydell Press 2010
Subjects:	Great Britain / Royal Navy / Provisioning / History / 18th century Great Britain / Victualling Office Great Britain / Royal Navy / Provisioning / History / 19th century Großbritannien > Navy Geschichte 1793-1815 Proviantamt
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from less than 20,000 to over 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them. The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the incompetencies
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 264 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781846158247
DOI:	10.1017/9781846158247