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Throughout the index italicized page numbers denote tables and figures and page numbers including an n refer to notes.
Achille (ship), 82 Admiralty Board, 6, 37, 1001, 141 communication problems with Ordnance, 38, 39, 404, 534, 142, 144 register of ships, 40 Adventure (packet ship), 134, 135 Ady, William (Ordnance storekeeper, Plymouth), 46 Africa (ship), 82, 90, 99, 134 Agamemnon (ship), 90, 91, 99 Aggershus (Dutch ship), 98 Agincourt (ship), 42 Alcock, Thomas (Treasurer of the Ordnance), 28 Aldridge, John (Principal Storekeeper), 25 Alexander (foreign service ship), 112 Alfred (ship), 91 Ambuscade (ship), 97 American War of Independence, 6, 10 Amherst, Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst (Commander in Chief ), 17 Amherst, William Pitt 1st Earl Amherst, 52 Amherst (Ordnance ship), 107, 110 Amity (sloop), 127 Amphitrite (foreign service ship), 111 Angell, John (Chief Clerk, Surveyor-Generals office), 23, 29, 1256 Arethusa (ship), 96 Argonaut (ship), 97 armed forces numbers serving, 4, 5 supplies to, 46 supply systems of other countries, 67 artillery, supply of see iron ordnance artillerymen, 50, 512 see also Royal Artillery Baillie, Thomas (Clerk of the Deliveries), 26 Bank of England, 28 Barfleur (ship), 96 barges, 1078, 113 Barnouin, James (Chief Clerk, Office of Clerk of the Ordnance), 29 Bayonnaise (French corvette), 97 Belleisle (ship), 82, 91 Bellerophon (ship), 80, 82, 97, 99, 130 Bellingham, Sir William, 15 Bellona (ship), 98 Berkeley, George (Surveyor-General), 212, 35 Bermuda Ordnance Office, 116 Betsey (ship), 64 bills of lading, 127 Blenheim (ship), 82 Blomefield Gun, 87, 99, 102, 103 Blomefield, Thomas (Inspector of Royal Artillery), 9, 17, 67, 88, 98, 1023, 113, 115, 138, 142, 163n3 Bowler, Arthur, 55, 56 Braakel (ship), 132 brass ordnance, 55, 62, 164n9 Brewer, John, 2 Brisac, Captain, 99100 Britain bureaucratic state, 24 population, 4 Britannia (ship), 84, 90, 901, 99, 112

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Arming the Royal Navy, 17931815 convoys, 49 Cooper, Cropley Ashley (Clerk of the Ordnance), 24, 25, 26, 845 Copenhagen, Battle of, 5, 98 Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, 2 letters to Alexander Ross, 22 as Master-General, 13, 14, 16, 18, 35, 41, 49, 52 corruption, 645 Corsica, evacuation of, 116 Crawford, Gibbs (Clerk of the Ordnance), 24 Crescent (ship), 96 Crew, Robert (Secretary to the Board), 27, 3940, 412, 489, 100, 111, 136 accounts, 125, 127 and cannon bursts, 98 evidence to Commissioners of Military Enquiry, 12, 106 and gunpowder supply, 73, 76, 77 Culloden (ship), 82, 97 Cumberland (ship), 99 Cuppage, Major-General (Royal Carriage Department), 9, 58, 67, 68 Customs Office of Great Britain, 7 Davison, Alexander (Treasurer of the Ordnance), 28 Defence (ship), 76, 82, 86, 91, 92, 99 Delft (floating magazine), 82 Devonshire (store ship), 133 Dickinson, Thomas (Superintendent of Shipping), 9, 63, 65, 67, 1056, 10710, 11112, 113 Dictator (ship), 92 Dillon, William (Midshipman), 76, 132 Duff y, Michael, 16, 110, 111 Dundas, Henry (Secretary of State for War), 17, 22, 512, 113 East India Company, 9, 71, 135, 144 Edgar (ship), 81 Ehrman, John, 11, 16 elections, 64, 159n50 Endeavour (ship), 130 Expedition (armed ordnance transport), 47

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Caesar (ship), 967, 98, 99 Calcraft, John (Clerk of the Ordnance), 245, 33, 34 Campbell, Admiral, 44, 45 Canning, George, 17 cannon see iron ordnance Cape St Vincent, Battle of, 812, 97 Captain (ship), 81, 82, 99 Carron Company (iron ordnance manufacturer), 62, 63 carronades see iron ordnance cartels, 61, 63 Castlereagh, Viscount see Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castlereagh Cavendish-Bentinck, William Henry, 3rd Duke of Portland, 48, 49 Centaur (ship), 92 charcoal, 71, 72 Charlotte (contract ship), 110 Chatham dockyard, 118, 119 gun wharf, 128 Chatham, Earl of see Pitt, John, 2nd Earl of Chatham Chesapeake (American frigate), 6, 103, 144 Clerk of the Deliveries, 8, 14, 26, 323 Clerk of the Ordnance, 8, 14, 235, 28 clerks, 3, 13, 2930, 30t1.1, 144 delivery and receipt of stores, 313 Cling (ship), 131 clothing, 32 coastal defences, 37, 52 Cobbetts Annual Register, 64 Cobbetts Parliamentary Debates, 334 Colossus (ship), 98 Commissariat Department, 57 Commissioners of Military Enquiry, 15, 21, 22, 35, 567, 58, 63, 67, 144 competitive tendering, 567, 65, 67 Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, 6970, 123 Congreve, William (Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory), 9, 17, 58, 59, 61, 67, 68, 6970, 113, 160n5 and gunpowder supply, 72, 74, 767, 78, 85, 115, 142 contractors contracting process, 568 Ordnance Office, relations with, 5568, 645, 67

Index Faversham, 8, 55, 5960, 62, 70, 734, 83, 118, 122 Firme (foreign service ship), 112 Fleet Battery I, 98 floating magazines, 823 Fortitude (ship), 99 France gunpowder strength, 78, 78t4.1 supplies to armed forces, 67 Frederick (Ordnance ship), 107 freight payments, 657, 66t3.3 Friendship (contract ship), 110 General Elliot (ship), 112 George and Bridges (ship), 113 George (contract ship), 110 Gibraltar, 41 Glorious First of June, Battle of the, 5, 22, 76, 96 Glover, Richard, 16, 18, 37 Gower, Captain, 756 Greville, Charles (Undersecretary of State, Home Office), 48 Grey-Jervis expedition 1795, 11011, 114 Groix, Battle of, 98 Guernsey, 118 gunpowder administrative structure of supply, 6970 amounts paid by Ordnance, 601, 60t3.1, 61t3.2 amounts used, 7983, 80t4.4, 81t4.5 magazines, 116 manufacturing process, 702 private production, 5961, 68 shortages, 835 state production, 55, 589, 612, 68 stores on board ship, 84t4.6 strength of foreign powder, 789, 78t4.1, 79t4.2, 79t4.3 supply of, 5, 6, 89, 6986 testing, 723, 75, 789 types of, 69, 723, 758, 856, 98

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Hayter, George (Inspector of Tools and Building Materials), 312 Helena (ship), 100 Hogg, Oliver, 115 Home Office, 37 relations with Ordnance, 4750 Howe, Richard, 1st Earl Howe, 5, 65 Howe, Sir William (Lieutenant-General), 201 hoys, 1078, 113 hulks, 116 Hume, Joseph, 60 Hunt, Joseph (Clerk of the Deliveries), 26, 33 as Treasurer of the Ordnance, 28 Huskisson, William (Under Secretary, War Office), 52, 111 Indefatigable (ship), 96 Industry (ship), 64 Inspector of Tools and Building Materials, 312 Irish uprising 1797, 48 iron ordnance, 5, 6, 3941, 434, 523, 556, 623, 87103, 155n42 administrative structure of supply, 88 Blomefield cannon, 87, 99, 102, 103 cannon and carronade bursts, 978 carronades, use of as opposed to cannon, 1002, 103 deficits, 936 proofing, 889 reserves, 937 ship ratings, 87, 8993, 92t5.1 shortages at sea, 99100 standardization of supply, 103 Irresistible (ship), 91 Isis (ship), 98 Isle of Man, 10, 117 Italy, 712

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James (ship), 112, 113 Jenkinson, Robert, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 53 Jersey, 118 Hadden, James (Surveyor-General), 21, Jervis, John, 1st Earl of St Vincent, 41, 84, 223, 34, 35, 67, 137, 154n169 86, 116 Hannah (ship), 112 Hardinge, Henry (Clerk of the Ordnance), 12 Joanna (contract ship), 110 John (contract ship), 110 Harmony (ship), 112

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Arming the Royal Navy, 17931815 McMahon, John (Principal Storekeeper), 25 Mellish (ship), 112, 113 Middleton, Charles (Comptroller of the Navy), 1, 36, 65 Milford (frigate), 43 militia, 5 Moira, Earl of see Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, 2nd Earl of Moira Molloy, Captain, 97 Monarch (ship), 81, 82, 91, 93, 98 Montagu (naval ship), 132 Montague (Ordnance ship), 106 Moorsom, Robert (Surveyor-General), 21, 22 Morris, Roger, 23, 5, 6, 65, 118, 121, 142 mortars, 87 Mulgrave, Earl of see Phipps, Henry, 1st Earl of Mulgrave Multhauf, R. P., 7 Namur (ship), 812 Nassau (ship), 96 naval mutiny 1797, 42 Navy Board, 1, 6, 30, 132 communication problems with Ordnance, 389, 401, 434 contracting process, 57 Pay Office, 127 Nelson, Horatio, 4, 5, 834, 90, 116 Nepean, Evan (Undersecretary of State for War), 512 Neville, Lieutenant Colonel, 9, 15 Nonsuch (ship), 75 Norfolk (ship), 113, 114 Oakes, Sir Hildebrand (Lieutenant-General), 20, 21 Onion, David (clerk), 123 Ordnance, Office of absence from historiography of Royal Navy, 56 accounts, 1247, 139 administrative structure in 1815, 141 amounts paid for powder, 601, 60t3.1, 61t3.2 Board of Ordnance, 8, 1114, 142 checks and balances, 32, 334, 356 civil department, 10

Keith, Admiral, 3941, 92 Keyham Point (magazine), 116, 131 King, John (foreman, Royal Brass Foundry), 1378 Knight, John (Captain), 132 La Blonde (French frigate), 789 La Gloire (ship), 96 La Pique (captured ship), 133 La Rgie des Poudres et Salptres, 7 La Revolutionnaire (ship), 96 labourers, 1356, 139 Lancaster (ship), 42 Lavoisier, Antoine (French scientist), 7 Le Cerf (French ship), 6 Lennox, Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond character, 17, 35 as Master-General, 13, 14, 16, 1718, 35, 50, 512, 59, 71, 1368 Letter Journal of George Canning, 17 Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, 8, 13, 14, 201 Ligonier, John, 1st Earl Ligonier, 13, 20, 21 Ligonier (Ordnance ship), 107, 108, 130 Lion (ship), 77 Lisle (Lille), siege of, 5 Liverpool, Lord see Jenkinson, Robert, 2nd Earl of Liverpool Lloyd, Colonel, 112 Lloyd, James Martin (Clerk of the Deliveries), 26 London (ship), 112 Maberly, John (contractor), 567 Majestic (ship), 91 Manship (Ordnance ship), 106 Marlborough, (ship), 22, 35, 101, 102 Marquis of Huntly (Ordnance ship), 82, 106 Mars (ship), 92 Martin, Rear Admiral, 46 Mary (contract ship), 110 Master-Generals, 2, 8, 10, 142 absenteeism, 13, 14 and Board of Ordnance, 1214 communication with other departments, 15 military responsibilities, 15 role of, 1419, 345, 37, 53, 1423 salaries, 14

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Index clerks, 3, 13, 2930, 30t1.1, 313, 144 communication between departments, 15, 306 contractors, relations with, 5568, 645, 67, 10910 corruption, 645 delays in shipping stores, 11213, 114, 132 departments, 89 employer/employee relations, 1356 engineers department, 10 experiments, 445 experts, use of, 312 fraudulent activities, 28, 645, 122 freight payments, 657, 66t3.3 Home Office, relations with, 4750 knowledge of supplies needed, lack of, 40, 46 military inspectorates, 9 Navy, relations with, 3846, 534 operational structure and methods, 2, 1136 outports, 11541 overseas bases, 910, 1345, 140 politics, influence of, 3 principal officers, 8, 1930, 35 promotion for employees, 1234, 136 records, 2 reforms, 3, 17, 142 relationships with other government departments, 3754, 38f2.1, 144 reserves, 34 salaries, 14, 29, 5960, 11822, 120t7.1, 1201t7.2, 138, 139 shipping, 637, 10514 spending estimates, 24, 278, 334 staff recruitment, 1378 state manufacturing process, role in, 589 storage of goods on warships, 456 supplies to depots abroad, 40, 41 Victualling Board, relations with, 467 War Office, relations with, 503 Ordnance Survey, 17 outports, 11540, 145 accounts, 1247, 139 administrative structure, 117, 139 delays in shipping stores, 132

193 employer/employee relations, 1356 foreign stations, 1345, 140 hiring of vessels, 132, 13940 housing for employees, 122 labourers, 1356, 139 lines of communication, 1289, 129f7.1, 1301, 1345 promotion for employees, 1234, 136 salaries, 11822, 120t7.1 1201t7.2, 138, 139 staff recruitment, 1378 supply of stores to naval vessels, 12835 tonnage of vessels, 129

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Pall Mall offices, 31 Pallet and Company, 64 Palmer, Captain, 77 Parker, Hyde (port admiral, Portsmouth), 131 Pasley (brig), 101 Peace of Amiens, 45, 46 Phipps, Edmund (Clerk of the Deliveries), 26 Phipps, Henry, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, 15, 16, 19, 142 Pitt, John, 2nd Earl of Chatham, 2, 12, 13, 14, 16, 1819, 35, 52, 101 Pitt, William (the Younger), 2, 3, 16, 1718, 59 Plymouth gun wharf, 128 Ordnance Office, 115, 118, 119, 122 Royal Laboratory, 70 Polyphemus (ship), 90, 99 Portland, Duke of see Cavendish-Bentinck, William Henry, 3rd Duke of Portland Portsmouth Ordnance Office, 39, 115, 118, 119, 122, 128, 130, 1356 Royal Laboratory, 70 powder mills, 8, 556, 5860, 62, 70, 734, 83, 122 Powerful (ship), 75 Priddys Hard (magazine), 116, 118, 123 Prince George (ship), 132 Princess Royal (ship), 84 Principal Storekeeper, 8, 14, 25, 32 Prosperous (contract ship), 110 Purfleet, 118

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Sargent, John (Clerk of the Ordnance), 24 Sark, 52 Queenborough (Isle of Sheppey), 645, Saumarez, James (Admiral), 41 159n50 Scilly Isles, 119 Scourge (ship), 99100 Radcliffe (saltpetre warehouse), 71 Secretary of State for War, 37, 501 Raglan, Lord see Somerset, Fitzroy, 1st Baron Secretary to the Board, 8, 10, 267, 1434 Raglan Seven Years War, 6, 38 Rattlesnake (ship), 100 Sheerness, 108, 118, 119 Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, 2nd Earl of ship ratings, 87, 8993, 92t5.1 Moira, 15, 16, 19 shipping Respected Friends (contract ship), 110 administrative structure of supply, Revenge (ship), 99 1056, 130 Richmond, Duke of see Lennox, Charles, 3rd barges, advantages over hoys, 1078, 113 Duke of Richmond captured ships, 127, 133, 144 Robust (ship), 91 delays in shipping stores, 11213, 114, Rodger, Nicholas, 13 132 Rogers, Augustus (Secretary to the Board), foreign service ships, 11013 27, 39, 445, 100 hiring of vessels, 10910, 132, 13940 Ross, Alexander (Surveyor-General), 21, Inspector of Ordnance Shipping, 9 35, 48 Ordnance owned vessels, 1069, 130 Royal Arsenal (Woolwich), 4, 6, 8, 72 Royal Navy ships, launch dates, 945t5.2 Royal Artillery, 4, 135 store ships, 133 Inspector, 8, 9, 10 Sicily, 712 Royal Brass Foundry, 8, 88, 1378 Sick and Hurt Board, 1, 6 Royal Carriage Department, 8, 9 Sinews of Power (Brewer), 2 Royal Dockyards, number of employees, 4 Singleton, Mark (Principal Storekeeper), 25 Royal Engineers, 4 Slatter, James (Chief Clerk, Storekeepers Royal Laboratories, 89, 70 Office), 29 Royal Manufactories of Gunpowder see Smith, William (Treasurer of the Ordpowder mills nance), 28, 34 Royal Military Academy, 8, 17 Snake (sloop), 39 Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower (Duff y), 110 Royal Military Artificers, 17 Somerset, Fitzroy, 1st Baron Raglan, 2 Royal Navy Spartiate (ship), 91 dominance, 5 St George (ship), 99 relations with Ordnance Office, 3846, Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castlereagh, 52 534 stores ships, launch dates, 945t5.2 delivery, 323 type of supplies needed, 5 receipt of, 312 Royal Powder Mills see powder mills reserves, 34 Royal Sovereign (ship), 78, 90, 91, 97, 132 Suffolk (ship), 91 Ruby (ship), 923 sulphur, 712 Russell (ship), 91 Superintendent of Ordnance Transports, 32 Salisbury (ship), 445 Superintendent of Shipping, 63 Sally (contract ship), 110 surgeons, 118 saltpetre, 7, 71, 1445 Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 14, 213, 8, 18, 1434 Sans-Culotte (French privateer), 100

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Index Swiftsure (ship), 130 Syrett, David, 55, 56, 105 Terpishore (ship), 43 Terror (bomb vessel), 47 Theseus (ship), 84, 130 Thetis (ship), 102 Third Report from the Select Committee on Finance, 122, 145 13th Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry, 14, 22, 26, 35 Thoroton, Thomas (Clerk of the Deliveries), 26 Thunderer (ship), 81 tides, reliance on, 45 Tilly (hoy), 130 Tower of London (Ordnance headquarters), 8, 313 Townshend (Ordnance ship), 107 Trafalgar, Battle of, 5, 82, 87, 90, 91, 103 Transport Board, 57, 63, 105 Treasurer of the Ordnance, 8, 279 Trigge, Sir Thomas (Lieutenant-General), 20, 21, 50 Triumph (ship), 75 21st Report from the Select Committee on Finance, 278, 56 Upnor Castle (magazine), 75, 76, 82, 83, 116, 118, 124, 129, 133, 159n1 Veale, Richard (storekeeper, Portsmouth), 125, 127, 136 Vengeance (ship), 80 Vesuvius (bomb vessel), 47 Victory (ship), 82, 87, 90, 99, 1312 Victualling Board, 1, 6, 9, 127, 132 relations with Ordnance, 467

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Vidgen, John (Chief Clerk, Surveyor-generals office), 65, 159n52 Ville de Paris (ship), 95 Vittoria, Battle of, 87 Viyhiia (floating magazine), 82 Walcheren expedition, 20, 523 Waltham Abbey, 8, 55, 5960, 62, 70, 73, 83, 117, 118, 122, 124 War of 1812, 5, 6 War Office, 7 relations with Ordnance, 503 Ward, Robert (Clerk of the Ordnance), 24, 25, 33 Warren, Admiral, 1345 Wassenau (floating magazine), 82 Waterloo, Battle of, 4, 5 weather, reliance on, 45 Webb, Richard (Purveyor of Ordnance Shipping), 63, 65, 105 Welbank, Richard (Chief Clerk, Delivery Office), 29 Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, 4, 5, 13 Wellesley-Pole, William (Clerk of the Ordnance), 1819, 24, 163n94 Wellington, Duke of see Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington West, Jenny, 1, 589, 60 Wilkinson, Clive, 143 Wood, Joseph (Secretary to the Board), 27 Woolwich Ordnance Office, 118, 119 Royal Laboratory, 70, 73 Woolwich (ship), 100 Woolwich Warren see Royal Arsenal (Woolwich) Zealous (ship), 99

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