Volume 4 comprised:
The Second Annual Conference, 1998. ‘At the Ringing of the Bell’: Dockyards, Management and Workforces
The Third Annual Conference, 1999. Georgian Dockyards 1714–1837
The Fourth Annual Conference, 2000. British and French Dockyards, 1650–1800
A residual paper from the Fifth Annual Conference, 2001. Naval Dockyards: Changes in Materials and Technology
The Fourth Annual Conference, 2000. British and French Dockyards, 1650–1800
A
Accountant-General of the Navy
duties 11, 25
established (1832) 10, 25
Actaeon (28), HMS (1775) 73
Adams, John (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65
Admiralty
Director of Admiralty Works see Director of Admiralty Works
James Graham’s reforms (1832) 10
Amethyst (36), HMS (1799): wrecked 71
Andrew, Joseph (Greenwich Pensioner, 1811) 40
Anne Royal 77
Arsenal Zeemagasijn, Amsterdam 29
Aspinall, Robert 114
Atherden, Edward (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65, 66
Atherden, Martha (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65, 66
Auckland, George Eden, 1st Earl of, First Lord of the Admiralty (1846) 15
B
Bailey, James (Greenwich Pensioner, 1813) 42
Barham, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron, First Lord of the Admiralty: and proposed dockyard at Northfleet 81
Barlow, Sir Robert, commissioner at Chatham Dockyard (1808–23) 39–41 passim
proposes remedies for silting 85
barracks, converted to housing and commercial use 28
Barrow, John, Second Secretary to the Admiralty (1804–1806 and 1807–1845): and proposed dockyard at Northfleet 82
Beatson, Captain R. I. RE: at Portsmouth Dockyard (1843) 98
beer, for the navy
price of 54
quality of 40, 54, 57
Bellona (74), HMS (1760): grounded in Portsmouth Harbour 73
Bentham, Jeremy: his influence on Samuel 25
Bentham, Maria, Lady (née Fordyce) 96
Bentham, Samuel
classification of workers by intelligence and skill 25
establishes timber masters (1801) 24
improves dry docks (1798) 91
introduces caissons for docks 96
proposes a ‘unified culture’ 24
provision of education 25
steam-driven bucket dredgers 83
‘total factor accounting’ 25
Bernays, E. A. 104, 105, 106, 107
Betsey (Victualling Board hired sloop, 1761) 65
Bienfaisant (ex-Le Bienfaisant) (64), HMS (1754) 72
Black Book (1832) 14
Black Stakes, Medway 77
blue lias lime mortar 101, 106
Bombardon floating breakwaters 96
Boulton and Watt: beam engines 104
Bramble, Benjamin: contractor at Portsmouth Dockyard 98
Brandreth, Lt. Col. Henry RE, Director of Admiralty Works (1837) 98
Brent, Joseph (Victualling Board sloop Mary, 1761) 65
Brenton, Captain Jahleel 87
Brest 86, 87–8, 87
Penfeld 88
Briggs, John Thomas
Accountant-General of the Navy (1832–54) 13
Assistant Secretary of the Victualling Board (1806–30) 81
Britannia (100), HMS (1762): grounded in Portsmouth Harbour 73
Bromley, Mr 14
Brompton Express 39
Brothers electric cableway 113
Browell, Captain William (Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1809–21) 40, 42
Buchet, Christian, ‘The development of Victualling Board bases in London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham and Dover (1701–1763)’ 53–68
Burnett, Dr William, Physician of the Navy 11
C
Caesar (Victualling Board sloop, 1761) 63
caissons
floating v. self-acting 96, 97
rolling 111
at Sheerness 96–7, 98
ship 102, 110
sliding 99, 102, 108, 108, 110, 111
Catwater sloop (Victualling Board hired sloop, 1761) 65
Centurion (50), HMS (1650): wrecked 71
Charente River 88–9
charts, navigation 75
Chatham, victualling base 54, 55, 66
personnel (1761) 66
Chatham Dockyard
Anchor Wharf Storehouses 29
caissons 97
Clocktower Building 29
Commissioner replaced by a superintendent (1832) 13
Commissioners, named
Sir Ro bert Barlow 39
Thomas Kempthorne 78, 80
dry docks
caissons for (1833) 97
proposed (c. 1611) 78
stone (c. 1820) 104
see also numbered docks
fitting out basin 109
Master Attendants 82
Master Attendants, named: Samuel Hemmans 39, 80
Master Attendants’ letter book (1811–14) 39–43
Master Shipwrights: William Stone (1833) 16
No. 5 Dock 105, 109
No. 6 Dock 105, 109
No. 7 Dock 105, 109
No. 8 Dock 105, 109
No. 9 Dock 109
plan of (1811) 75
pumping station 94, 104
repairing basin 109
river wall, proposed by Rennie (1811) 75
ropery 27
St Mary’s Creek, extension into (1860s) 104–5
shipwrights strike over piece-work pay (1775) 22
silting at (19th century) 85
stage coaches banned (1812) 41–2
steam dredgers 85
tank vessels (1811) 40
Chatham Reach (Medway) 83
Cherbourg
breakwater (begun 1783) 86, 86, 87
dockyard 86, 86, 107
Chrimes, Michael 114
Clark, Celia, ‘Adaptive re-use and the Georgian storehouses of Plymouth – naval storage to museum’ 27–37
Clark, Dean 34
Clarke, Colonel Sir Andrew, Director of Admiralty Works 108
at Portsmouth Dockyard 101, 102
Cleopatra (32), HMS (1779) 73
Clifton Grammar School 35
Collingwood, John (Victualling Board messer, 1756 and 1761) 68n47
Colson, Charles 100, 109
Comet (2), HMS (1822) 83
Commissioners of Naval Revision 25
Commissioners on Fees, Perquisites and other unofficial emoluments 24
concrete, in dockyard construction 106, 106
Conqueror (68), HMS (1758): wrecked 71
Controller of Victualling: established (1832) 10
convict labour, in dockyard construction 105, 108–9
Cookham Wood Reach (Medway) 78, 80, 83
Cooper, W. S. 42
D
Daniels, William (apprentice to the Master Sailmaker at Chatham, 1811) 40
Dawson, Peter, ‘The Chatham Master Attendant’s letter book 1811–14’ 39–43
Dean Sands, Portsmouth Harbour 73, 73, 74
Defoe, Daniel 69
Dennison, Captain Sir William RE: at Portsmouth Dockyard (from 1843) 98
Deptford
mills for flour, oats, and roasting peas (1756) 57
victualling warehouse 53
Deptford Dockyard
basin 70
shipwrights accept piece-work pay (1775) 22
shoaling of the Thames (18th century) 79
steam-driven bucket dredger 83
Devonport see Plymouth
Director of Admiralty Works
Captain Henry Brandreth RE (1837) 98
Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke (1864) 100, 101, 102, 104
Colonel G. T. Greene 104
Colonel C. Pasley 104
diving bells: at Sheerness 96
docks see caissons; dry docks; graving docks; wet docks
dockyards, French 70
Dover, victualling base 53, 61, 65
bakehouse 65
cuttinghouse 57, 65
mill erected (1757) 57
Dover (46), HMS (1654) 72
Downs (sandbank) 76
Drake’s Island, Portsmouth 71, 71
dry docks
defined 95
granite 93–4
timber 91
Dummer, Edward: introduces stone docks 91
Duncan, G. 42
Dundas, Robert, 4th Viscount Melville
Storekeeper-General of the Navy (1832–69) 11
Dundas, Robert Saunders, see Melville, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount
E
East Gillingham Reach, Medway see Gillingham Reach
East Sand, Portsmouth Harbour 73
Easton and Anderson 97
Edgcumbe, Richard, 1st Baron Edgecumbe 57
Emery-Wallis, F. A. J. 32, 33
Endeavour (14), HMS (?) 73
English Heritage 27–8, 28, 30, 35, 36, 46, 47
Evelyn, Sir John 56
F
Fairbairn, William 98, 99
Fanshawe, Robert, Commissioner at Plymouth Dockyard (1801) 24
Ferry House embankment, Medway 84, 85
Festival of the Sea, Portsmouth (1998) 49, 50, 50
Fidler’s Reach, Thames 81
Fort Brockhurst, Gosport 98
Frewin, Admiral Sir Terence 32
G
Gabrielli, Mr (Chatham Dockyard contactor) 108–9
Galley Hill Farm, Kent 81
Gambier, Admiral James, 1st Baron Gambier, Commissioner of Portsmouth Dockyard 74
Gastrill, Roger, Master Attendant at Portsmouth Dockyard 74
Ghent: military sports hall 27
Gibraltar victualling base: personnel employed (1761) 63, 66
Giddens, A. 45
Giles, Mr: surveys Sheerness Dockyard 92
Gillett and Johnson 35
Gillingham 109
Gillingham Reach (Medway) 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83
Girdler (sandbank) 76
Goliath travellers 102, 103, 104
Goodwin Sands 76
Gosport
navigation beacon erected (1774) 75
Victualling Board brewhouses and cooperage (1753–57) 57
Graham, Sir James, 2nd Baronet, First Lord of the Admiralty (1830–34) 9–10, 18, 19, 21
Graves, Admiral Thomas, 1st Baron Graves 72
graving docks
defined 95
at Sheerness 94–5
Grays Reach, Thames 81
Great Henry 77
Greene, Colonel G. T., Director of Admiralty Works: at Chatham Dockyard 104
Gutters, Thomas (Victualling Board messer, 1756) 68n47
H
Halifax, Nova Scotia: mooring blocks at (1813) 42
Hamilton Bank, Portsmouth Harbour 73, 73
Hamoaze (Plymouth) 79
Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust 28
Hardy, Thomas, senior naval lord 12
Harris, Henry (pilot, 1760) 71
Harwich, victualling port 53
Harwich (64), HMS (1674): wrecked 72
Hawke, Admiral Sir Edward 89
Hawshire, Richard 64
Hemmans, Samuel (master attendant at Chatham Dockyard) 39, 42
Henrietta (ex-Langport) (50), HMS (1654): wrecked 71
Henry Jones Ltd 36
‘heritage’, defined 45
HGP Greentree Allchurch Evans 36
Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield 28
Hone grabs 111
Horlock, John (Victualling Board sloop Catwater, 1761) 65
Horse Sands, Portsmouth Harbour 73, 73
Huddart, Captain Joseph: and Sheerness Dockyard 92
hulks, at the royal dockyards 70
Hume, Joseph, MP 12
Hutchinson, Henry (Victualling Board agent, 1761) 66
Hydraulic Engineering Co., Chester 111
I
Impregnable (98), HMS (1786): wrecked 74
Invincible (ex-Le Terrible) (74), HMS (1744): wrecked 74
Isle of Wight 73, 75
J
Jackson, Sir John 112
Jamaica, victualling base 53
James, Captain H. RE: at Portsmouth Dockyard (1843) 98
Jenkins, Michael 74
Jervis, Sir John, 1st Earl of St Vincent
and breakwater in Plymouth Sound (1806) 72
First Lord of the Admiralty (1801–4) 24
and proposed dockyard at Northfleet 81
surveys Torbay (1799) 72
Jessop, Josias: and Sheerness Dockyard 92
Jessop, William 80, 89n40
John Sturges and Co., Bowling Ironworks 94, 104
Joliffe and Banks: at Sheerness Dockyard 95
Julian, John (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65
Jupiter (Russian, 1812) 40–41
K
Kempthorne, Thomas, commissioner at Chatham Dockyard 78, 80
Kent (74), HMS (1762) 73
Keppel, Admiral Augustus, 1st Viscount Keppel 72
Kethole Reach 77
Kinsale, victualling base 53
Knight, Roger 73
Knock John (sandbank) 76
L
Laing, Oliver, master shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard 84
Lambarde, William 77
Langport see Henrietta
Latham, Ernest (site engineer at Portsmouth Dockyard) 104
Law, Admiral Sir Horace 30
Lay, John 34
Le Boufolc rock, Brest 88
Le Gullet channel, Brest 88
Leather, John Towlerton 102
Lenox (74), HMS (1758) 73
Les Fillettes reef, Brest 88
Lestock, Admiral Richard 72
Lewis, John (Victualling Board agent, 1761) 66
Lidgerwood cableways 113
Lively (38), HMS (1813) 83
Lobb, Captain William (Commissioner at Sheerness, 1811) 41
London Bridge, as cause of Thames silting 80, 84
London victualling base 54, 56, 61
quarterly progress of victualling expenses (1756–63) 62
list of employees (1761) 63
sited at Tower Hill 55
wharf contested by the Ordnance Board 56
Long Reach (Medway) 82
Long Sand (sandbank) 76
L’Orient 87, 87, 88, 88
M
McCarthy, Lily 30
McCormac, Richard 35
Macdonnell, J. 100
MacDougall, Philip
‘Harbour navigation and moorings of naval dockyards in the Atlantic region’ 69–90
‘Reforming the Dockyards. The Whig experience of 1832’ 9–20
Mackenzie, Lt Murdoch 75
McMurray, Campbell 35
Magnificent (74), HMS (1766): wrecked 88
Maitland, F. W., Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard (1833) 16
Marlborough (74), HMS (1767) 77
Marshall, George (Victualling Board sloop, 1761) 65
Mary (Victualling Board hired sloop, 1761) 65
Mary Rose 47, 48
Mary sloop (Victualling Board hired sloop, 1761) 65
Medway, River
depth of (16th and 17th centuries) 77–8
navigation hazards 76–7
silting of (19th century) 80
transport moorings (1800) 82
Medway Ports 98
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount, Prime Minister (1835–41) 18
Melville, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount: and proposed dockyard at Northfleet 81
Meyer, Christian Hendrick (site engineer at Portsmouth Dockyard) 103, 104
Middle Ground, Portsmouth Harbour 73, 73, 74, 75
Middle Sands (sandbank) 76
Middleton, Charles, 1st Baron Barham, Comptroller of the Navy 23
Mills, Suzanne (chimney sweep) 64
Minerve (38) (ex-La Minerve), HMS (1794) 87
Ministry of Defence: and military heritage 28
Minto, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of, First Lord of the Admiralty (1835–41) 17
Mitchell, James: civil engineer at Sheerness Dockyard (c. 1833) 96–7
Monarch (74), HMS (1765) 73
Monson, Admiral Sir William 77
Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty 22
Morriss, Roger, ‘Benthamism in the royal dockyards and British public culture, 1750–1850’ 21–6
Mount Batten Point, Plymouth 71, 71
Mulgrave, Lord see Phipps, Henry
Murrays chain pumps 104
Museo Maritimo, Barcelona 28
N
navigation charts 75
Navy Board
abolished (1832) 9
imprest accounts not cleared (1807) 23
Navy Bills 23
Surveyors’ duties 10
Navy Civil Departments Act (1832) 9, 12
Navy Days, Portsmouth (1996) 49
Nichelson, William, master attendant at Portsmouth Dockyard 74
Nobbs, I. 42
Nore Sand 76
lightship 76
Northfleet 76
proposed royal dockyard (1807) 81–2
O
Ommaney, John (Victualling Board agent, 1761) 64, 65
Ordnance Board: wharf in London 56
Owen, Robert 89n4
P
paddle steamers, for the navy 82–3
Palliser, George 42
Pasley, Colonel C., Director of Admiralty Works 104
Peake, John, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard (1833) 16
Pembroke (60), HMS (1733): capsizes (1745) 77
Pembroke Dockyard: great storehouse 29
Peninsula Barracks, Winchester 28
Perambulation of Kent, A (Lambarde) 77
Perceval, Spencer 81
Peterel (or Petrel) (ex-Duchess of Manchester) (4), HMS (?) 75
Phipps, Henry, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, First Lord of the Admiralty (1807–10) 81
Physician of the Navy: established (1832) 10
Pilkington, Major Sir Henry 109
Plymouth, victualling base 54, 55, 61
bakehouses and brewhouse 54–5, 55, 57, 65
cooperage 65
fresh water supply (1760) 57
Stonehouse peninsula 55
storekeepers at 64
wharf built 57
Plymouth Dockyard
basin 70
Commissioner replaced by a superintendent (1832) 13
Commissioners, named: Robert Fanshawe (1801) 24
dry docks, stone (1690–1700) 91
east ropery 27–8
expansion (1890s) 109–10
fire (27 September 1840) 19
harbour 71–2, 71
map 71
Morice Yard 27, 31
No. 4 Dock 113
No. 5 Dock 113
shipwrights strike over piece-work pay (1775) 22
silting (18th and 19th centuries) 79, 80
South Yard 28
transport moorings (1747) 82
Plymouth Sound 71–2, 71, 72
Port Mahon, Minorca 53
Port Royal, Jamaica: ironwork at the naval hospital 94
Portland cement 100, 101, 106, 107
Portsmouth
brewhouse 55
seamarks 75
Portsmouth, victualling base 54, 55, 61, 64–5
bakehouse 65
cooperage 65
furnaces built 56
mill built (1744) 56
storekeepers at 64
Portsmouth Dockyard 29
Admiralty Library 31
basin 70
Block Mills 46
Blockhouse 74
Camber Dock 98–9
clocktower 30, 31, 32, 34, 46
commissioner: see resident commissioner
Dockyard Apprentice Museum 46, 47–8, 49
Dockyard Museum 32
Douglas-Morris Gallery 31
dry docks, stone (1690–1700) 91: see also numbered docks
Goliath travellers 102, 103
Great Basin: caissons at (1801) 96
Heritage Area see Portsmouth Naval Base Heritage Area
Keyham Harbour 99
King Alfred Library 31, 33, 35
Lily McCarthy Gallery 33, 36
Master Attendants 73–4, 89n14
Master Attendants, named
Roger Gastrill 74
William Nichelson 74
Master Shipwrights: John Peake (1833) 16
Middle Store see No. 10 storehouse
Murrays chain pumps 104
No. 3 Dock 91, 98, 99
No. 6 Boathouse 35
No. 7 Dock 98, 99
No. 8 Dock 99
No. 9 Storehouse 28, 30, 31, 31, 32, 34
No. 10 Dock 99
No. 10 Storehouse 28, 30, 30, 31–2, 34–5, 36
No. 11 Dock 99
No. 11 Storehouse 28, 30, 32, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
No. 12 Building 35
No. 12 Dock 100, 109
No. 13 Dock 100, 102, 109
No. 14 Dock 100, 109
No. 15 Dock 100, 109
Portsea Lion Gate 47
Portsmouth Naval Base Heritage Area 35, 46
Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust 34, 35, 36, 48
Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society 34
Portsmouth Royal Naval Museum see Royal Naval Museum
Present Use Store see No. 11 storehouse
Princess Anne Suite 35
prison becomes a school of music 27
Resident commissioner replaced by a superintendent (1832) 13
Resident commissioners, named: James Gambier 75
reuse stores 30
ropery (rope house) 28, 30, 46
Royal Naval Museum 31, 32, 33, 36, 47, 48
scoring machine 46
Semaphore Tower 47
Ship shop 49
shipwrights strike over piece-work pay (1775) 22
silting (18th and 19 centuries) 79, 80, 84
Sissons pile drivers 104
Smithery 48
South Basin Dock see No. 3 Dock
South Store see No. 9 storehouse
Steam Basin (begun 1843) 98–9, 99
steam-driven bucket dredger 83, 84, 102, 103
steam locomotives 103
Superintendents, named: F. W. Maitland (1833) 16
tidal basin 100
transport moorings (1804) 82
Victory Museum 32
Portsmouth Harbour 72–5, 73
Portsmouth Square Tower 27
Powerful, HMS (1895) 109
pozzolano lime cement 101, 106
Princess Augusta (Victualling Board sloop, 1761) 63
Q
Queen (98), HMS (1769) 40
R
Ramillies (74), HMS (1763) 72
Redhouse, London
bakehouse 56, 63
cooperage 56
mill 56, 63, 64
victualling warehouse 53, 56
victualling wharf 56
Rennie, Sir John (1794–1874)
Chatham Dockyard
proposed river wall (1811) 75
stone dock (c. 1820) 102
report on silting at royal dockyards (1807) 79–81, 84
Sheerness Dockyard
cement of Septaria 93
reconstruction (after 1815) 92
steam-driven tongue-and-groove machine 92
survey of (1808) 82
Resolution (74), HMS (1770) 73, 77
Riley, Ray, ‘Whose heritage? The case of Portsmouth dockyard’ 45–51
Robin Wade and Partners 36
Rochefort 87, 87, 88–9
Rochester Bridge, as cause of silting in the Medway 80, 84, 85
Rolt, Peter: contractor at Portsmouth Dockyard 98
Roman cement 101, 106
Rotherhithe, London
bakehouse 56, 63
mills leased by the Victualling Board 55–6, 63
Rowe, Samuel (Victualling Board employee, 1716) 68n48
Royal Albert Dock 107
Royal Clarence Yard 27
royal dockyards
Admiralty instructions of July 1833 13, 14
apprentices 18
clerks of the cheque 13
commissioners (abolished 1832) 12–13
community spirit in 22
dockyard schools 19, 25
first, second, and third class clerks (from 1816) 25
first, second, and third class workers (from 1833 to 1840) 15–16, 17, 25
foremen 14
hulks 70
inspectors (created June 1833) 14, 15
instructors 18
leading men 14, 15
map 70
master attendants 13
master shipwrights 13, 14
measurers (abolished 1833) 15
moorings, for ships in Ordinary 70
Ordinary (reserve) 70
pay and remuneration
‘chips’ (perquisite) commuted (1801) 22
day work 22
fees and perquisites for clerks 22
‘job work’ abolished (1833) 14, 15
pensions 16–17, 18
perquisites abolished (1796–1801) 24
piece work 22
replaced by day wages (1833) 14, 15–16
shipwrights’ 22
‘task work’ abolished (1833) 14, 15
police force 19
scavelmen 83
shipwrights 15
shoaling workers 25
steam-driven bucket dredgers 83
storekeepers 13, 24
superannuation see pay and remuneration, pensions
superintendents (established (1832)) 12
surgeons (1830s) 11
timber master (established 1801) 24
timber supply 69
transport moorings 82–3
wages see pay and remuneration
warping buoys see transport moorings
Royal George (100), HMS (1756): grounded in Portsmouth Harbour 73
Royal Naval School of Physical Training, Portsmouth 27
Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth 29
Ruby (64), HMS (1776) 40
Russel, Michael (Victualling Board agent, 1761) 66
S
St Catherine, London: brewhouse at 55
St Mary’s Reach (Medway) 83
St Nicholas’ Island, Portsmouth 71, 71
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, First Lord of the Admiralty: report on the navigation of the Medway (1773) 77
Sandwich (90), HMS (1759) 73
Sarah (Victualling Board hired sloop, 1761) 65
Sargent, Edward, ‘The development of dock construction at the royal dockyards in the nineteenth century’ 91–114
SAVE 28
Scamp, William, Deputy Director of the Admiralty Works
at Plymouth Dockyard 99
at Portsmouth Dockyard 100
School of Naval Architecture, Portsmouth 18
seamarks, English Channel 75
Seppings, Robert 42
Sheerness Dockyard 93
basins 93
building slip 94, 95
caissons 96–7, 97, 98
civil engineer: James Mitchell 96
coffer dams (begun 1813) 95–6
dry docks 93–4
emergency survey (1808) 82
graving dock 94, 97
Great Basin (opened 1823) 93, 95, 96
Hollow Quay Walls 92–3, 92
mast pond and mast stores 95
Master Attendant: Joseph Whidbey 89n39
model of 97–8
mooring bollards, cast iron 94
reconstruction (after 1815) 92–8
resident engineer: John Thomas 95
sea approaches to 76
shipwrights accept piece-work pay (1775) 22
steam-driven tongue-and-groove machine 92
Shepard, Thomas (Victualling Board messer, 1756 and 1761) 68n47
Shivering Sand (sandbank) 76
Shovell, Admiral Cloudesley 55
Sissons pile drivers 104
Skeleton Instructions (1832) 10, 11, 15
Smith, Edward Pease (site engineer at Portsmouth Dockyard) 103, 104
Smith, Philip (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65
Smith & Co. 102
Sovereign Reach, Medway see Gillingham Reach
Spit Sand, Portsmouth Harbour 73, 73
Spithead 72–3, 73
steam-driven bucket dredgers, naval 83
Stephens, Samuel (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65
Stone, William, Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard (1833) 16
Stonehouse Hospital, Plymouth 28
Storekeeper-General of the Navy: established (1832) 10
Stoughton Barracks, Guildford 28
Stringer, Phineas (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65, 66
Sturges and Co. see John Sturges and Co.
Sunk Sands (sandbank): lightship 76
Surridge, Rear Admiral Thomas 41
Surveyor-General of the Admiralty: established (1832) 10
Symonds, Rear Admiral Sir William 88
Symonds, William, Surveyor-General of the Admiralty (1832–37) 10, 15, 18
T
Tallis, Nigel 28
Taylors mixers 113
Temeraire, HMS (Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport) 27
Templar, Parlby and Templar 30
Terrible, HMS (1895) 109
Thames, River
dredging 76
silting of (19th century) 80
Thames Conservators 76
Thames Ironworks 111
Thomas, John: Resident Engineer at Sheerness 95
Tolputt, James (Victualling Board messer at Dover, 1761) 65, 66
Toplis (or Topliss), William (Victualling Board messer, 1756 and 1761) 68n47
Torbay: surveyed (1799) 72
transport moorings, at the royal dockyards 82–3
Trinity House 76, 83
Tucker, Benjamin 23
Turku: ropery 27
U
Upnor Castle 78
Urry, J. 49
V
Venice Arsenale, re-use of 27
Victory (100), HMS (1765): as heritage object 46–7
Victualling Board 53–68
abolished (1832) 9
accounts for Deptford and Portsmouth yards not passed (1807) 23
building programme (1703–39) 54–5
building programme (1739–48) 56
buys and processes live animals for meat 57, 68n49
Caesar (sloop, 1761) 63
estimated numbers of personnel (1757–63) 59
financial problems (1703–39) 55
fraud, allegations of 23
fees and perquisites for clerks 22
messers and salters, defined 62–3
personnel numbers and costs (1761) 63, 67
Princess Augusta (sloop, 1761) 63
pursers’ accounts paid after delays 22
victuals expedited from London to Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham and Dover (1757) 59
Victualling Bills 23
See also the individual bases at Chatham, Dover, Gibraltar, London, Portsmouth, and Plymouth
W
Walton, Captain Jacob 89n4
Warner Sands, Portsmouth Harbour 73
warping buoys see transport moorings
Warrior (40), HMS (1860) 47, 99
Watt, James: and Sheerness Dockyard 92
West Gillingham Reach, Medway see Gillingham Reach
Westwood Baillie, iron fabricators 108
wet docks 91
Whale Island 103
Whidbey, Joseph
Master Attendant at Sheerness Dockyard 89n39
Master Attendant at Woolwich Dockyard 89n39
surveys Torbay (1799) 72
works with Rennie on silting report 80, 81
White, I. 42
Wood, Henry 10
Woolwich, victualling warehouse 53
Woolwich Dockyard
Master Attendant: Joseph Whidbey 89n39
Master Shipwright: Oliver Laing 84
shipwrights accept piece-work pay (1775) 22
shoaling of the Thames (18th and 19th centuries) 79, 84, 85
steam-driven bucket dredger (1808) 83, 84
Worcester (64), HMS (1769) 73
Worthington, John (Victualling Board contractor, 1761) 65, 66
Wren, Terry 34
Wrench, Thomas (Victualling Board sloop, 1761) 65
Naval Dockyards Society 