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

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

15 Nov 23
Posted by: Roger Plumtree
23 minutes, 28 seconds read
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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 25 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.”[1] A serious missed opportunity with regard to the Naval Administration history of Victualling in the Royal Navy was that, on the demise of the Royal Naval Supply and Transport Service, no Victualling Department expert attempted to provide posterity with a detailed monograph of the multiple complexities involved in the provision and supply of food to a ship…

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