'Victualling' in D A Baugh (ed), Naval Administration, 1715-1750
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- Author(s) Baugh, Daniel A (ed)
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1977
- Pages pp401-52
- Publisher Navy Records Society
- Place Published London
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Reproduces transcriptions of documents relating to the victualling process and to the Victualling Board, mostly held in Admiralty Papers in the National Archives along with others held in the National Maritime Museum. In editing this volume, the editor writes, 'my primary aim has been to illustrate the realities of the Navy's situation, emphasizing the most challenging administrative problems of the era and the means chosen to deal with them'.