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During lockdown Louise also worked part-time with the Library Academic Support team. During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, anxiety over potential shortages of basic provisions incited a brief spate of panic buying. It was at the same time that preliminary soundings were also taken for passing ships up the Medway. 2; Issue 48910, Gale News Vault. Each day a sailor would receive: • approximately 450 grams of biscuit. Pigs fared better and bred during the voyage. I went to a Red Cross [canteen] in an old house. Leisurely the Dutch fleets sailed homewards, where De Ruyter triumphantly landed at Helvoetsluis. Rationing sought to ensure a more equal distribution of clothing and improve the availability of garments in the shops. 23 Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, Statesmen and Sea Power (Oxford, 1946), 50. Men were typically allowed to choose their own messes, so they usually formed the basis for the sailor's social life. Subject of rationing in the old English navy Crossword Clue Answers.
But the Dutch, fearing further attacks by fireships and lacking the latter themselves, drew back to the mouth of the Thames. Life at sea for ordinary sailors was difficult. I don't think they have kept her from seeing the seriousness of the war—after all, practically very window in Buckingham Palace is out!
The Charles V was then consumed, its captain Douglas heroically perishing with his doomed ship, after having first driven off two fireships. De Witt's preparations were successfully deceptive. The adjective unflappable, meaning unflustered or imperturbable, appeared in the 1950s. The bread was grey, coarse, had a crumby texture almost like sawdust, contained a lot of salt so it would "keep" longer, and was dry. The national flour extracted 85 percent more of the hulled wheat grain. Dig for Victory now! " Clothes rationing was announced on 1 June 1941. Still unconscious of the disaster at Sheerness, "though the offals of sheep borne up the river by the flood showed all too well what p229 the Dutch had been doing, " Pepys returned mournfully to the capital. The gun batteries totalled 3330 pieces, and the crews consisted of 17, 500 officers and men. QUESTION: "Any ideas for the United States? Many had to go to the hospital. The inception of the second Anglo-Dutch war was colonial in nature.
You Can Be a Farmer Now. " Some of the beef was usually replaced with suet and flour for pudding, while biscuit could be replaced by rice. They were beautifully cared for. Hard tack came to mean food that was unappetising and almost too bad to eat. Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957. The fire hearth sits on a stone hearth set on tin and sand to protect the deck. Cook, Journals I, 28th October 1769). Food, called 'victuals', was rationed daily. Incredibly, some 100, 444 total New Zealanders saw active service during the First World War—equivalent to around 9 or 10 percent of the entire country's population. By May 27 the united fleets (although never reinforced by the anticipated Danish warships) comprised 64 ships of the line and frigates, seven armed dispatch boats, 15 fireships, and 13 galliots. Main image: HMB Endeavour Mess Deck. "The wolf is not yet at our door, but every time a food ship is sunk upon the high seas, he comes nearer".
Production went up with the news of North Africa. Bought one or two silver souvenirs, over 100 years old, to bring home. Therefore to reduce the tonnage for the transport of wheat the Government had decided to increase to 85 percent the ration of flour from wheat milled in this country. " Strachey's unyielding stance was that this was a circumspect, entirely essential move "Wouldn't you agree that no government would dream of doing anything as unpopular as rationing bread … unless we come to the conclusion it was absolutely necessary as a safeguard to see that every family in this country was sure of its share…". Apparently derived from an old music hall song called Archibald, Certainly Not!, Archie was a British military slang word for German anti-aircraft fire. See also, the Dutch (in translation from a contemporaneous fly-sheet printed in Amsterdam) in Calendar (Domestic), 1667, CCV, #5: "Short & reliable account, etc. 18 After a brisk bombardment of about two hours, 800 marines were landed under Dolman, and the important bastion occupied. The invention of the tin can by Peter Durand in 1810 revolutionised military rations. De Ruyter brilliantly saved his surviving fleet and drew off, after Tromp's tactical blunder had endangered even retreat. I sat in a control room there, and saw where enemy planes were flying over, and other planes were starting out to meet them. The kitchen is used to cook for 35 children under five, the youngest three months.
These were slung between the guns, with benches on either side. Housewives will be disappointed to learn that the judges for the national loaf competition, taking place at the Caxton Hall on November 18, will not actually taste the bread. The National Loaf was discontinued in 1956. Today's post, highlighting the wide range of newspaper archive databases the Library has and how these can be used to research a particular topic or event, is written by Louise Peterkin, Helpdesk Assistant, University of Edinburgh Libraries.