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  • Thumbnail for Victual Brothers
    The Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) were a loosely organized guild of privateers who later turned to piracy. They affected maritime trade during...
    12 KB (1,149 words) - 11:59, 21 October 2024
  • "from the victualling book of Lancelot Cooper... 70 men appeared discharged... to the Intelligent Gun Brig in July 1812 although their victualling is claimed...
    10 KB (1,519 words) - 10:11, 3 July 2024
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    The Royal Edward Victualling Yard (REVY) is a heritage-listed former naval victualling yard and warehouses, in the inner city Sydney suburb of Pyrmont...
    36 KB (5,085 words) - 15:22, 28 September 2024
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    Church. There were 431 men and women assigned to the Victualling Department on the Titanic. The Victualling Department provided all the services for the occupants...
    118 KB (3,533 words) - 20:19, 21 November 2024
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    various uses across the site. The challenge of victualling the fleet during the Napoleonic Wars led the Victualling Board to try to consolidate its various manufacturing...
    22 KB (2,855 words) - 22:56, 21 August 2024
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    Food (redirect from Victual)
    Academia. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. The Complete Book on Spices & Condiments (with Cultivation, Processing & Uses) 2nd Revised...
    57 KB (5,689 words) - 02:58, 24 October 2024
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    headquarters of naval administration, and the associated Victualling Yard became the Victualling Board's main depot. Tsar Peter the Great visited the yard...
    59 KB (6,776 words) - 18:12, 1 February 2024
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    population of 7770. Significant buildings include the Royal William Victualling Yard, the Royal Marine Barracks, Stonehouse and the Royal Naval Hospital...
    12 KB (1,336 words) - 16:36, 20 November 2024
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    three principal departments: Deck, with 66 crew; Engine, with 325; and Victualling, with 494. The vast majority of the crew were thus not seamen but were...
    199 KB (22,295 words) - 21:45, 21 November 2024
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    London Wall and the more recent from the Royal Navy's late medieval victualling yards in Greenwich. It appears in the London poulterers' price lists...
    18 KB (1,940 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2024
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    2006, Rosia Bay was the site of the 19th century Victualling Yard complex, which included the Victualling Yard, Rosia Water Tanks, and Rosia Mole. That year...
    18 KB (1,636 words) - 15:38, 1 June 2024
  • posterity. London continued to be recorded in the parish's rate book until 1751. His victualling business, likely an alehouse, was called "The Blackamoor's...
    4 KB (442 words) - 19:37, 4 November 2024
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    1919, and her new son, Richard, was also lost. Joughin was part of the victualling crew of the RMS Titanic during its maiden and final trip in April 1912...
    9 KB (1,122 words) - 01:42, 13 August 2024
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    conditions aboard Royal Navy vessels and demanded a pay rise, better victualling, increased shore leave, and compensation for sickness and injury. On...
    24 KB (3,012 words) - 23:11, 8 October 2024
  • The Amrit class of victualling barge is a pair of yardcraft built by The Peoples Engineering & Motor Works Ltd, Salkia, Howrah for the Indian Navy. Nikaraksha-class...
    2 KB (70 words) - 22:02, 22 March 2024
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    the company, began his career in a syndicate arranging contracts for victualling the navy, an interest he kept up for most of his life. He knew that Samuel...
    118 KB (12,350 words) - 18:06, 20 November 2024
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    machinery, corn and chocolate mills for Deptford victualling yard, and the machinery at the Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth. They also constructed some...
    7 KB (846 words) - 07:58, 29 May 2024
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    galley is where Jenny and her kittens normally lived, cared for by the victualling staff who fed them kitchen scraps. Stewardess Violet Jessop later wrote...
    37 KB (4,080 words) - 09:41, 5 November 2024
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    Edward Teach's severed head hangs from Maynard's bowsprit, as pictured in Charles Elles's The Pirates Own Book (1837)...
    81 KB (9,993 words) - 00:20, 20 November 2024
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    the discovery of the cape sea route, Jan van Riebeeck established a victualling station at the Cape of Good Hope, at what would become Cape Town, on...
    239 KB (21,988 words) - 15:38, 21 November 2024
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