 Emblem of the Victualling Board, as seen across its Yards and Depots. | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | (1683-1832) |
| Preceding agency | |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction |  Kingdom of England  Kingdom of Great Britain  United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | London |
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| Parent agency | Admiralty |
The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the Navy Board for victualling ships of the British Royal Navy. It oversaw the vast operation of providing naval personnel (140,000 men in 1810) with enough food, drink and supplies to keep them fighting fit, sometimes for months at a time, in whatever part of the globe they might be stationed.[1] It existed from 1683 until 1832 when its function was first replaced by the Department of the Comptroller of Victualling and Transport Services until 1869 then that office was also abolished and replaced by the Victualling Department.[2][3][4]
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- ^ MacDonald, Janet (1 June 2009). "Documentary Sources Relating to the Work of the British Royal Navy's Victualling Board during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815". International Journal of Maritime History. 21: 239–262. doi:10.1177/084387140902100111.
- ^ Saint, J. C. "Commissioners: Victualling 1683-1832, Institute of Historical Research". www.history.ac.uk. University of London, February 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Victualling Board - Oxford Reference, in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea Volume 2". oxfordreference. Oxford University Press, 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.