Instructions and Regulations for the Guidance of the Officers of the Several Victualling Establishments at Home, Proposed by the Commissioners for Revising the Civil Affairs of His Majesty’s Navy, in their Twelfth Report, dated 22nd December 1807, and ordered to be carried into execution, by His Majesty’s Order In Council of the 14th September 1808.
Instructions for the Agents of the Victualling Establishments Abroad, Proposed by the Commissioners for Revising the Civil Affairs of His Majesty’s Navy, in their Twelfth Report, dated 22nd December 1807, and ordered to be carried into execution, by His Majesty’s Order In Council of the 14th September 1808.
The Eighth [and Ninth] Report ofthe Commissioners appointed by an Act of Parliament to enquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites and emoluments which are or have been lately received in the several public offices therein mentioned, to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same: and to report such observations as shall occur to them, for the better conducting and managing the business transacted in the Victualling Office (London 1788).
Naval Regulations issued by command of the President of the United States of America January 25th 1802 (reprinted Annapolis, Maryland 1970).
Public Record Office
ADM 1 – Secretariat in-letters
ADM 2 – Secretariat out-letters
ADM 7 – Miscellaneous Admiralty papers, including Admiralty Board Room journals.
ADM 8 – List books showing disposition of ships
ADM 36 – Muster books
ADM 51 – Captains’ logs
ADM 52 – Masters’ logs
ADM 106 – Navy Board letters and orders
ADM 109 – Victualling Board in-letters
ADM 110 – Victualling Board out-letters
ADM 111 – Victualling Board minutes
ADM 112 – Victualling Board accounts and Tenders for Contracts
ADM 113 – Pay lists for victualling yards
ADM 114 – Victualling depts miscellanea
National Maritime Museum
Admiralty documents:
ADM C series – Victualling Board, in-letters and orders from Admiralty
ADM D series – Board of Admiralty, in-letters from Victualling Board
ADM DP series – Board of Admiralty, in-letters from Victualling Board
ADM F series – Board of Admiralty, in-letters from Sick and Hurt Board
ADM G series – Victualling Board, abstract of in-letters and orders from Admiralty
ADM/L/ series – Lieutenants’ logs
Miscellaneous documents:
GRT/10-23 Grant papers
GRE/15 Book of orders received by Captain Grey
KEI/23/32-3 Lord Keith’s papers, sick returns for ships and hospitals in the Mediterranean 1800 to 1801
JOD/45 Manuscript copy of the order book for HMS Amazon, kept by John Skynner and Fairfax Moresby, midshipmen
MAL/101 Letter book of Captain Pulteney Malcolm
PAR/174 Letter and order book of Captain William Parker for HMS Amazon
RUSI/110 Additional Orders and Regulations for the Government of His
Majesty’s Ship Superb, KG. Keats Esq., Captain, manuscript book
kept by John L. Copperd, midshipman
WAR/12,18 Sir John Borlase Warren’s papers
British Library
Add Mss 34935–6 Instructions from Admiralty and Secretary of State, 1803 to 1805
Add Mss 34964 Nelson’s letter book, 20 May 1803 to 6 October 1804
Add Mss 34970 Nelson’s orders to commanders of vessels, May 1803 to March 1804
Add Mss 36611–12 Commissions, Warrants and appointments granted by Lord
Nelson, July 1803 to January 1805
Add MSS 34978–86 Logs of ships under Nelson as commander-in-chief Mediterranean
Wellcome Trust Library
Western MSS 3667–3681 Miscellaneous documents and letters relating to ships under
Nelson’s command 1780 to 1805
Nelson Museum, Monmouth
E900 series Letter Books of Nelsons correspondence
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Except where they are personally written and unedited memoirs of life at sea, or volumes of the Navy Records Society, I must caution readers against accepting at face value comments on victualling found in secondary sources. Many are naively misguided, others are, to be polite, unreliable, and many come at various places in the chain of repetition which starts with the unreliable and changes subtly to the seriously misguided as the chain advances. For this reason, I have made a practice of following these chains backwards until I come to the original document and wherever possible have used these original documents in preference to all others.
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