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Q is for Quartermaster My eyes are dim, I cannot see....from doing too many blog posts for this challenge! Do you remember the Quartermaster's Song?  We used to sing it whenever we went on long car trips usually to the Coast.  It was a lot of fun. I was interested to read that one of the Quartermaster's duties was to steer the ship.  Who knew? I thought the job was all about food.  But then I do tend to think that everything is about food. Or navigating my way to food. Here are some boys under instruction at Greenwich about how to find food.  One of them might have even become a Quartermaster. How are you going with your Blogging from A-Z challenge?  Are you still on course?

P is for Prize Money (and Pensions) When I think of acknowledgement or reward for military service I tend to think of medals.  I had not heard of Prize Money until I came across it in my great-grandfather's record as mentioned in this post. Pappalardo informs us that: It was considerably cheaper for the navy to make use of captured ships rather than build new ones. (p. 127) See!  Recycling has been around for ages! Crews that captured enemy ships were rewarded with prize money.  Y ou can check ADM 238 for Prize Money Lists . You can access British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919 on Find My Past here but you need to have a World Subscription at £13 per month or 60 credits at £6.95 which lasts 3 months (the record would cost 10 credits). You should also note that they only include the following as per here: The National Archives series included in this collection are as follows: ADM 6 / 223-320...

G is for Greenwich Royal Naval College Greenwich taken by Anne in 2008 on Flickr.  Creative Commons Licence here. It's difficult not to be impressed by Greenwich.  It positively oozes history. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves here.  Mary I and Elizabeth I were born here.  It's the home of the Royal Observatory (up on the hill behind these buildings in the photo above) where the concept of Greenwich Mean Time originated.  British mariners set their chronomoters to Greenwich Mean Time to calculate longitude.   From a family history point of view the institutions that might be of interest are the following: Royal Greenwich Hospital  - founded in 1694 by Queen Mary II for disabled and retired seamen, it closed its doors in October 1869. (Brian Lavery, Able Seamen , pp 61-63).  The Family Historian's Enquire Within advises that: details of apprenticeships of pensioners' children and registers o...