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...
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The Commissioners for the Victualling of the Navy, often called the Victualling Commissioners or Victualling Board, was the body responsible under the...
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Victualling Yard, Deptford was a Royal Navy Victualling Yard established alongside Deptford Royal Dockyard on the River Thames. There was victualling...
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John Rennie the Younger (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
supervised by George. Rennie along with Philip Richards designed Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, (1823–33). Covering 14 acres (57,000 m2), this grand...
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Department of the Director of Victualling was the British Admiralty department responsible for civil administration of Victualling Yards and the storing and supply...
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Navy's two principal, purpose-built, provincial victualling establishments (the other being Royal William Yard in Plymouth, Devon). It was designed by George...
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and Sutton Pool. This closed with the establishment of the Royal William Victualling Yard in the 1830s, since when the area has been used as an extension...
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Walter Yeo (category Royal Navy personnel of World War I)
shipwreck. His mother was later an alemaker at the Royal William Victualling Yard. Yeo entered into the Royal Navy aged 15. As he was under 18, he was rated...
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The Victualling Yard was a victualling facility in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar built for supplying Royal Navy ships while anchored at Rosia...
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the road access to the yard. Following the winding-up of the corporation, responsibility for the Royal William Victualling Yard devolved to the South West...
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