The bakery formed part of the Victualling Yard of the Malta Dockyard, which supplied naval personnel of the Mediterranean Fleet with food and drink.
42.
Papers, 1809, vol . vi . ), and was the sole author of the system for the reform of the victualling departments.
43.
He received permission to stay at the Cape Colony in October 1806, and began work as a clerk in the Royal Naval Victualling Office.
44.
He started a new victualling trade with Spain, promoted linen manufacture, and encouraged the development of the resources of the country in many directions.
45.
In his last command, that of the East Indies Station, he carried out many salutary reforms, especially in matters of discipline and victualling.
46.
Though nominally under the direction of the Navy Board ( which had its headquarters nearby on Tower Hill ), the Victualling Board was effectively independent.
47.
The estate was inherited by his son, Simon Mayne, who also represented Aylesbury in Parliament and was a commissioner of victualling under William and Mary.
48.
It was an unusual appointment, as Brooks had no previous service in the Victualling Department, but he proved himself successfully throughout the First World War.
49.
As a result of this, a salaried Board of Commissioners was established in 1683, and this body retained oversight of victualling for the next 150 years.
50.
This instrument was adopted by the War Office, for use in the Veterinary, Remount and Butchering Departments, and by the Admiralty for its Victualling yards.
