Victualling Department (Royal Navy)

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Victualling Department
Admiralty

The Victualling Department originally known as the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services or the Victualling Office,

Naval Victuals
for the Royal Navy from 1832 to 1964.

History

The provision of Victualling to the Royal Navy was originally done using specialist food and beverage

Department of Admiralty
in April 1964 into an enlarged ministry.

Administration

Post Holders included:[7][8][9][10]

Comptrollers of Victualling and Transport Services

  • Captain Jame Meek, June 1832 - December 1850
  • Thomas Tassell Grant, F.R.S. December 1850 - May 1858
  • Charles Richards, Paym, May 1858 - 1862

Comptroller of Victualling

  • Charles Richards, Paym, 1862 - April 1870

Superintendents of Victualling and Stores

  • Sir Samuel Sayer Lewes, Kt, April 1870 - August 1878

Directors of Victualling

  • Sir Samuel Sayer Lewes, Kt, August 1878 - February 1886
  • Sir Henry Francis Redhead Torke, February 1886 - December 1905
  • Sir
    Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray
    , December 1905 - October 1911
  • James Henry Brooks, October 1911 - 1918
  • C. R. B. Lane, February 1939 - June 1944
  • Oscar Stanley Norman Rickards, June 1944 - November 1948
  • R. H. Shipway Esq. January 1958 - June 1968
  • A. W. Holden, June 1968 - May 1970

Structure of Department

As of Spring 1962
Victualling Yards operating from 1860 onward during the existence of this department the number of yards were reduced and included.[11]

Note:Each yard's victualling supplies were managed by either an Agent Victualler, Master Attendant Victualling, Victualling Contractor or Victualling Stores Officer.

  • Victualling Stores
    • Harnley Road, Chandler's Ford.
    • Lumb Mill, Delph.
    • Roche Court, Fareham.
    • Botley, Winchester.

Timeline

Included[12]
  • Navy Board, Surveyor-General of Victuals, 1550-1679
  • Navy Board, Victualling Board (Board of Victualling Commissioners), 1683-1832
  • Board of Admiralty, Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services, 1832-1862
  • Board of Admiralty, Comptroller of Victualling, 1862-1869
  • Board of Admiralty, Victualling Department, Superintendent of Victualling, 1869-1878
  • Board of Admiralty, Victualling Department, Director of Victualling, Stores 1869-1964

References

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  2. ^ Macpherson, David (1805). Annals of Commerce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigation with Brief Notices of the Arts and Sciences Connected with Them: Containing the Commercial Transactions of the British Empire and Other Countries : with a Large Appendix ; in Four Volumes. London, England: Nichols and Son. p. 318.
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  4. ^ "Victualling Board - Oxford Reference". oxfordreference.com. Oxford University, England, 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  5. ^ Archives, The National. "Navy Board, Victualling Office, and Admiralty, Department of the Comptroller of the Victualling and Transport Services: In-Letters". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives, 1793-1849, ADM 109. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. ^ Archives, The National. "Records of Victualling Departments". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives, 1660-1975, ADM. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  7. ^ Clowes, W. Laird (William Laird); Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert) (1897). "The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present, Vol 5, 1802-1815". archive.org. p, 4 London : Sampson Low, Marston. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  8. ^ Admiralty, Great Britain (1834). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office.
  9. ^ Clowes, W. Laird (William Laird); Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert) (1897). The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present, Vol 6, 1815-1857. London : Sampson Low, Marston. p. 186.
  10. ^ Clowes, W. Laird (William Laird); Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert) (1897). The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present, Vol 7, 1865-1900. London, England: London : Sampson Low, Marston. p. 3.
  11. ^ The Navy Lists. London, England: H.M. Stationery Office. 1832–1970.
  12. ^ Archives, The National. "Records of Victualling Departments". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives, 1660-1975, ADM. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

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