- 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...
- the town in 1423. La Charité was not only
strongly fortified, but
fully victualled for a
prolonged siege. Joan's
forces were
known to be
poorly equipped...
-
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...
- 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...
- are many
important and
famous places where ships were built,
armed and
victualled,
especially those intended to
support military flocks. One only has to...
- The
Royal Edward Victualling Yard (REVY) is a heritage-listed
former naval victualling yard and warehouses, in the
inner city
Sydney suburb of Pyrmont...
- to Troy, in the
generation after the Argo quest, was
reprovisioned and
victualled at Euneus' orders. He
ransomed Lycaon, a
Trojan prisoner, from Patroclus...
- the company,
began his
career in a
syndicate arranging contracts for
victualling the navy, an
interest he kept up for most of his life. He knew that Samuel...
