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The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815 - Management Competence and Incompetence (Hardcover, New)
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The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815 - Management Competence and Incompetence (Hardcover, New)
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An examination of the Royal Navy's Victualling Board, the body
responsible for supplying the fleet. During the French
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its
manpower from fewer than 20,000 to more than 147,000 men, with a
concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required
to sustain them.The organisation responsible for this, the
Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems
which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of
actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army
garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the
constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent
difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of
responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports
of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail
the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and
non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and
incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the
incompetencies. JANET MACDONALD, author of the highly acclaimed
Feeding Nelson's Navy (Chatham, 2004), has recently completed a
thesis at King's College London. After a business career, and
running an equestrian organisation, she spent ten years as a
freelance writer, publishing more than thirty books.
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