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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-15 ADM/A/1780/77
A letter concerning the launching of a new third Rate Ship the second Spring in May 1691 at Deptford. Signed H Harding and John Benbow, Deptford Yard Officers.
Edward Harper and Christopher Wilson: petition presented to the House of Commons by Harper and Wilson, 1809. (Manuscript) 1807-1809 SCS/8
Edward Harper and Christopher Wilson: petition presented to the House of Commons by Harper and Wilson,1809; after taking out a patent for improved methods of shipbuilding Harper and Wilson were invited to demonstrate their invention at Deptford yard.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-09-13 ADM/A/1769/65
The VICTORY and the DREADNAUGHT to be repaired at Henry Johnsons yard at Blackwall and Mr Castles yard at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-08 ADM/A/1795/203
Officers at Deptford recommend that the new Bomb Vessels building at Deptford and at Mr Fowler's Yard should be established as Fifth Rates and have a given number of guns and be crewed by sixty-five Men. Signed by Benbow, Harding and W. Dormer, Dockyard Officials.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-06 ADM/A/1830/155
We the Sawers of Deptford Yard hereby named do not find any alteration in the new Instructions for measuring our works from the former rules of measuring; except that where we formerly cut eleven deals for three shillings, now we are to cut [twelve?] for the same price: and some small alteration to …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-30 ADM/A/1784/90
Service record of Mr [Peter] Rowby showing him to have served both in ships and at Deptford Yard as Boatswain of the Yard. Signed Nathaniel Whitfield, Ticket Office Clerk.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-08 ADM/A/1863/168
Letter from an official at Deptford yard in which he explains the regulations governing the removal of chips of wood from the Yard and who may be permitted to do so. Signed by a Dockyard Official.
Wigram, Sir Robert, 1st Baronet, Shipbuilder, 1744-1830. (Manuscript) 1769-1865 WIG
The papers consist of business records and family legal documents belonging to Sir Robert Wigram. There are two business ledgers, 1810 to 1865, and family legal documents, 1765 to 1826.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-05 ADM/A/1842/55
Having ordered John Cliff, a Servant to the late Carpenter of the FALMOUTH, to be discharged from the said Ship in order to his being employed in the Deptford Yard, we direct you forthwith to give Orders for his being employed in the said Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-12-02 ADM/A/1770/226
Acknowledging that the FORESIGHT has been surveyed by Officers at Deptford Yard and is such a poor state that she cannot be refitted there without prejudicing other work.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-01 ADM/A/1782/57
Enclosure: Copy of a letter from [Josiah] Lawson in which he claims that due to the increase in activity in the Yard (not specified) he is overwhelmed and must now have an Assistant. He recommends Mr Bond of Deptford Yard as a suitable candidate.
Composite volume of two parts: 'Abstract of Naval Stores' and 'Arithmetic & Geometry'. (Manuscript) 1673-1674 LAD/32
First half of the volume: An abstract of the serviceable Naval stores taken at the last General Survey of His Majesty's several Dockyards and remaining in the custody of the storekeeper of each yard (Portsmouth on 7 March 1673, Deptford on 13 May 1674, Woolwich on 19 May 1674, Sheerness 21 July…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1699-03-21 ADM/A/1863/167
Informing that a Petition has been received from labourers at Deptford Yard stating that the privilege of carrying out chips of wood from the Yard has been stopped and asking for the matter to be investigated.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1863/172
No date recorded. Petition of the poor Labourers belonging to HM Yard at Deptford in which they state that the custom of allowing them to take small chips of wood out of the yard has recently been curtailed.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/236
Edward Parsons, Porter of the Back Gate at Deptford Yard, has been instrumental in exposing some embezzlement. He suggests that he has a son who is available to work in the Yard. His proposal is accepted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-11 ADM/A/1780/59
We direct you to order the Clerk of the Cheque of the Deptford Yard to cause a Muster to be made of the Shipwrights belonging to this Yard at such time as Mr John Trevor shall desire it.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/137
In your report to this Board of the 5th inst; upon the Petition of the Clerk of the Survey at the Woolwich Yard you informed us that his Salary is fifty pounds per annum, whereas the Salary of the same Officer at Chatham is one hundred, and at Deptford and Portsmouth sixty pounds per annum.…
Uncatalogued: Plans of Royal Navy yards and other buildings. (Manuscript) 1786 - 1946 MSS/83/185/3
Three plans of Victualling Yard Deptford.

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Volumes relating to the history of the Navy compiled in the 1880s and 1890s by Francis H Miller (Manuscript) 1200-1900 REC/28/1
Consisting of notes, letters, cuttings and illustrations. (Related Material REC/28/2).
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1688-03-19 ADM/A/1758/147
Direct you to cause the CROWN, (now at Woolwich ) to be repaired in this Yard, and her men be turned over into the HAMPSHIRE when she is ordered out, also the BRISTOL and RESOLUTION be refitted with what speed can be, the former at Portsmouth and the latter at Chatham.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-06 ADM/A/1785/41
We direct you to order Captain Stephen Akerman, Master Attendant on Floats, to do the Duty of Master Attendant at the Deptford Yard during the absence of Captain Benbow, Master Attendant of the said Yard, who is appointed to attend the Duke of Leinster in the present Expedition.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-06 ADM/A/1842/79
We understand by your letter of the 3rd inst; that you have bought the BEDFORD GALLEY for HM's service and ordered her to be received by the Deptford Yard.…