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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/100
cover sheet to doc 99
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/99
Robert Benetland is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the SOESDIKE yacht. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 12 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-13
ADM/A/1794/107
Captain Kerr, Commander of the LENOX, has applied for the money he disbursed to several men brought from the DEPTFORD at Plymouth to the LENOX at Portsmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/75
Mr Blackwell, their Majesties' Consul at Livorno, that as directed by the Earl of Nottingham and the Lord Sydney, he has disbursed several sums of money for maintaining distressed seamen that came from Toulon to that place, for which he has drawn a bill of exchange on this office.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-08
ADM/A/1794/69
Michael Norris, late Carpenter of the ROYAL OAK, by reason of age and infirmity contracted in the service of the Navy, is incapable of employment and we have thought fit to discharge him.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/81
John Brockhurst is to be appointed Boatswain and Gunner of the DILIGENCE brigantine. You are to enter him accordingly together with such an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 10 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-11
ADM/A/1794/85
You are directed to have the DEFIANCE laid up at Chatham and that the officers not turned over to any other ship paid their wages.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/83
You are directed to have the rigging, stores and furniture for such of the shallops now remaining, to be carefully laid up and kept in readiness and put on board upon their being ordered on service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-01
ADM/A/1795/21
Enclosing an account of the damage ships of the Fleet received in sailing from the Nore to the Downs.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-02
ADM/A/1795/27
Ordering the remnant of the Company of the EAGLE to be turned over into the SUSSEX now at Chatham due to the length of time the repairs to the EAGLE are likely to take; and confirming that the PRINCE of WALES Prize recently taken by the YORK and brought into Portsmouth is to serve in HM Fleet as a S…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-02
ADM/A/1795/29
Captain Knapp of the NEW AFRICA Hired ship at the Nore is complaining of not having been supplied with all of the Boatswain's and Carpenter's Stores. Instructions are given for the Owners to be pressed to complete the supply of same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-02
ADM/A/1779/15
Confirm warrant from Captain Mathew Aylme, Commander the ROBERT, and appoint Arthur Bass, master gunner, the SAPHIRE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-03
ADM/A/1779/17
Appoint Thomas Elliot, boatswain, the DOVER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/249
In pursuance of His Majesty's warrant to this Board dated 16 March 1693, you are directed to have a pension of £120 a year settled on Peter Chasseloup, a French sea officer and refugee, who served as a volunteer in the Navy in the years 1691/1692.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-02
ADM/A/1779/7
Appoint Robert Hallows, Purser, the SAMUEL& HENRY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-01
ADM/A/1795/12
Granting the appeal by Admirals of the Fleet for Captial and high rated ships to be provided with extra sails.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-02
ADM/A/1779/9
Appoint James Clerke, Master Carpenter, the SALLY ROSE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-01
ADM/A/1779/3
Appoint John Leyton, Boatswain, the WOOLWICH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-12-01
ADM/A/1779/1
Appoint Robert Gilson, Master Cook, the SAMUEL & HENRY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-10-02
ADM/A/1824/27
Appoint John Brinson, Boatswain, the TIGER Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-28
ADM/A/1794/237
William Burrell is to be appointed Purser of the new 4th Rate building by Mr Snelgrove on the Thames. You are to enter him accordingly, as soon as the ship is ready to receive him, together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 28 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-24
ADM/A/1794/241
Your letter of 20 April to our Secretary, enclosed a letter from the Commissioners of the Victualling about buying or hiring at a yearly rent, a bakehouse with two tenements near the victualling office at Portsmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/247
William Banton, late Master Gunner of the LONDON MERCHANT hired ship, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the new 4th Rate building at Deptford by Mr Castle.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-19
ADM/A/1794/239
The King has given orders to the Council in Scotland to provide a number of seamen to serve in the fleet this year, and to be put on board such ships as are appointed to receive them at Leith, and to direct that each man shall receive 40 shillings as their Majesties' Bounty.…
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