victualling office
1victualling-office — victˈualling offˈice or victˈualling ship noun An office supplying, or a ship conveying, provisions to the navy • • • Main Entry: ↑victual …
2Victualling Office — On Tower Hill, near King Street (Dodsley, 1761). First mention: 1665 (H. MSS. Com. 15th Rep. II. 167). Shown in Rocque s map 1746 on the east side of Tower Hill, on a portion of the site now occupied by the Royal Mint …
3Old Victualling Office — See Victualling Office …
4Victualling Commissioners — The Commissioners for the victualling of the Navy, often called Victualling Commissioners, were the body responsible under the Navy Board for victualling ships of the British Royal Navy. Contents 1 Creation 2 Course 3 Abolition …
5victualling-ship — victˈualling offˈice or victˈualling ship noun An office supplying, or a ship conveying, provisions to the navy • • • Main Entry: ↑victual …
6Royal William Victualling Yard — The Royal William Victualling Yard, in Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth, England, was the major victualling depot of the Royal Navy and an important adjunct of Devonport Dockyard. It was designed by the architect Sir John Rennie and was named for …
7Denzil Onslow (of Pyrford) — Denzil Onslow (c.1642 – 27 June 1721) was a British Whig politician. Through advantageous marriages, he obtained a country estate and became prominent in Surrey politics of the Hanoverian era, although his nephew Arthur Onslow, as Speaker, judged …
8John Tutchin — (Born 1660? 1664? September 23, 1707) was a radical Whig controversialist and gadfly English journalist (born in Lymington, Hampshire), whose The Observator and earlier political activism earned him multiple trips before the bar. He was of a… …
9Somerset House — For the 19th century town house of the Dukes of Somerset, see Somerset House, Park Lane. The Strand facade of Somerset House and the church of St Mary le Strand, shown in a view of 1836 …
10HM Bark Endeavour — His Majesty s Bark Endeavour was a bark in the service of the Royal Navy, built in 1764 and best known for carrying Captain James Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand in 1769 71. Built as a collier in Whitby, North… …
