PROVISIONS - 1918

In January 1918, the following provisions were brought aboard, in the New York Navy Yard, in preparation for departure to Scapa Flow, for operations in the North Sea, during World War One:

• 1,200lbs head cheese
• 300lbs yeast
•  2,000lbs hamburger
• 1,160lbs tongue
• 1,368 bottles Welch’s grape juice
•  2,250lbs oranges
• 2,331lbs bacon
• 1,200lbs lunch meat
• 135 crates of white potatoes.

Peeling spuds, portside of Crew's Galley, from the collection Martin Emmons, TEXAS veteran 1917-1918.

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