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  • Thumbnail for Victualling Commissioners
    The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the...
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    came to be known as the Victual Brotherhood engaged in war at sea and shipped provisions to keep the city supplied. The name Victual Brothers is derived from...
    12 KB (1,149 words) - 11:59, 21 October 2024
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    In the age of sail, arming or victualling a war ship, or war vessel had the meaning of equipping the ships with all the materials to navigate and the "victuals"...
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    Titanic (redirect from Titanic (ship))
    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...
    200 KB (22,346 words) - 21:14, 10 November 2024
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    assigned to the Victualling Department on the Titanic. The Victualling Department provided all the services for the occupants of the ship; food, housekeeping...
    118 KB (3,533 words) - 01:16, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal William Victualling Yard
    The Royal William Victualling Yard in Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth, England, was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy and an important adjunct...
    22 KB (2,704 words) - 03:16, 20 September 2024
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    The Victualling Department originally known as the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services or the Victualling Office, also...
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  • Thumbnail for HM Victualling Yard, Deptford
    Victualling Yard, Deptford was a Royal Navy Victualling Yard established alongside Deptford Royal Dockyard on the River Thames. There was victualling...
    24 KB (3,053 words) - 23:09, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for RFA Reliant (A84)
    RFA Reliant (A84) (category United Kingdom naval auxiliary ship stubs)
    replenishing aircraft carriers at sea with a wide range of air, naval and victualling stores. As refitted she had a helicopter landing pad built over the poop...
    4 KB (108 words) - 05:10, 29 June 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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    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
  • uboat.net. Retrieved 9 December 2020. Caruana, Joseph (2012). "Emergency Victualling of Malta During WWII". Warship International. LXIX (4): 357–364. ISSN 0043-0374...
    41 KB (3,647 words) - 12:07, 28 May 2024
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    A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Hulk may be used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, an abandoned...
    15 KB (1,859 words) - 17:27, 30 October 2024
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    be able to carry ammunition and victualing stores for the fleet. The ship would be equipped with weapons like anti-ship, anti-submarine and CIWS systems...
    11 KB (992 words) - 17:03, 14 November 2024
  • cannibalism. When Hornblower approaches the island he sees that the Spanish victualling ship has given up trying to land food, because the wind is in the wrong...
    4 KB (438 words) - 18:35, 18 December 2023
  • The list includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1760. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (2503). 8 January 1760. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List...
    73 KB (764 words) - 20:51, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Rosalie-class replenishment ship
    designed to replenish Royal Navy taskgroups with various armaments and victualling stores while under way. Unlike the bigger Fort Victoria class, they supply...
    9 KB (683 words) - 14:36, 12 November 2024
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    Edward Harvey. She was decommissioned later that year and reduced to a victualling storeship in Portsmouth and, later, Spithead. Being obsolete and of no...
    12 KB (1,118 words) - 14:20, 11 May 2024
  • Stores Support Ship (1957) Reliant Retainer-class armaments/victualling stores issuing ship (1954) Retainer Resurgent Fort class stores ship (1944) Fort...
    14 KB (748 words) - 12:16, 12 October 2024
  • The Victualling Inshore Craft, or VIC, was a type of auxiliary vessel built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The VIC was modelled on the...
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