Report of the Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Expediency of Diminishing the Present Quantity of Spirits Served out Daily to the Seamen of the Royal Navy
London: William Clower and Sons, 1850. Hardcover. Bound up in modern cloth backed boards - light tide mark in minutes section. xii, 132pp. In 1824 the drink allowance was shrunk from a pint to a quarter pint of rum (!) and tea adopted, but the adoption of Imperial Measure in 1826..... More