- The
Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) were a
loosely organized guild of
privateers who
later turned to piracy. They
affected maritime trade during...
- Food is any
substance consumed by an
organism for
nutritional support. Food is
usually of plant, animal, or
fungal origin and
contains essential nutrients...
- The
Commissioners for the
Victualling of the Navy,
often called the
Victualling Commissioners or
Victualling Board, was the body
responsible under the...
-
command were
supplied according to
colonial victualing regulations. They were more
generous than the
Victualing Act. The M****achusetts
military ration had...
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three prin****l departments: Deck, with 66 crew; Engine, with 325; and
Victualling, with 494. The vast
majority of the crew were thus not
seamen but were...
- In the age of sail,
arming or
victualling a war ship, or war
vessel had the
meaning of
equipping the
ships with all the
materials to
navigate and the...
- the
discovery of the cape sea route, Jan van
Riebeeck established a
victualling station at the Cape of Good Hope, at what
would become Cape Town, on...
- 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...
- The
Victualling Department originally known as the
Department of the
Comptroller of
Victualling and
Transport Services or the
Victualling Office, also...
-
merchants formed a
state within a
state in
Bergen for generations. The "
Victual Brothers"
launched three devastating pirate raids on the port (the last...
