Link to the related website that has useful info: the Age of Nelson.

This forum is devoted to the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793 - 1815).
And why not the other navies of the period?
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Post Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:52 pm    Post subject: the Victualling Board Reply with quote
Curiously, Boydell Press publishes two books on the Victualling Board :

"The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815; Management Competence & Incompetence" by Janet Macdonald, 15 Jul 2010, ISBN 9781843835530
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13247

"Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815; War, the British Navy & the Contractor State" by Roger Knight and Martin Wilcox, 16 Sep 2010, ISBN 9781843835646
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=13377

Books on the subject were non existent except for the previous book of Janet Macdonald (Feeding Nelson's Navy), and now we have two at once.
Alas they don't come cheap.

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Post Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some useful info about the commissioners of the period can be found here :
http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/comms-victual
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Post Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
These books make fascinating reading : how to manage to feed hundreds of thousand of people with just a handful of clerks with just pens and ink and no computers.

Sustaining the Empire: War, the Navy and the Contractor State is a very good article on the subject :
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/research-areas-and-projects/sustaining-the-empire/
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