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During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from less than 20,000 to over 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them. The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the incompetencies.

Great Britain. --- Provisioning --- History --- Great Britain --- History. --- צי הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- England --- History, Naval --- Victualling Office (Great Britain) --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- Feeding Nelson's Navy. --- French Revolutionary Wars. --- JANET MACDONALD. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Parliamentary enquiries. --- Royal Navy. --- Victualling Board. --- core tasks. --- incompetencies. --- supplies. --- troopships. --- warships.