Battleship Provisioning in the age of the Dreadnought: Some answers and clarification

By Roger Plumtree

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The author expands on Lt Cdr Lester May’s research concerning the victualling of a Dreadnought-class warship at the beginning of the 20th century. The proliferation of commodities supplied representing without doubt a vast logistical undertaking.
A 20 minute read.

“However the pay of the mariners, both for sea and harbour, may be wanting for some time” wrote one of the early victuallers, “yet they must have continual supplies of victualling, otherwise they will apt to fall into very great disorders.”1Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy by J R Tanner, 1920, page 57 Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, photograph by Michael Chapman. [mfn]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_William_Victualling_Yard#/media/File:Royal_William_Victualling_Yard,_Plymouth.jpg[/mfn]A serious missed opportunity with regard to the Naval Administration history of Victualling in th…

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