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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-05 ADM/A/1828/67
Give orders for buying four vessels at Plymouth and Falmouth proper to proceed on voyage to HM Plantations in America. Taking cause they be good Sailors and Clean when they go out. Cause the owners to Victual and Man them. Give an account of their readiness to sail.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-07 ADM/A/1828/85
Account why Vice Admiral Hopson is not payed his half Pay since he was last sent to Sea. The TERRRIER bomb vessel to be manned and victualled.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-02 ADM/A/1828/15
Enter men on the Bomb vessels ordered to be fitted for sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-02 ADM/A/1828/9
Impress £50 to Captain Benbow, he being ordered to the Fleet under Admiral Russell.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-02 ADM/A/1828/31
Appoint Richard Burrill, Boatswain, of the CARCASS Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-04 ADM/A/1828/45
Direct to give orders for Colonel Jacob Richards be furnished with a suitable boat as can be stowed on a Bomb Vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-04 ADM/A/1828/47
Appoint Edward Asgate, Master Carpenter, of the THUNDER Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-17 ADM/A/1820/288
Warrant appointing Richard Port, late Carpenter, of the PORTSMOUTH, to be Master Carpenter of the LENNOX; his predecessor having been appointed to the new Second Rate being built at Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-03-02 ADM/A/1828/5
Give opinion as to providing bedding for Marines when on board ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-16 ADM/A/1782/142
Warrant appointing David Pondry, late Master Cook of the DRAKE, to be Master Cook of the PRINCE of ORANGE Hired ship for the duration of her service in HM Navy. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/203
We direct you to cause the CROWN upon her arrival at Portsmouth, where she is ordered to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, to be victualled for three months, or as much as she can conveniently stow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/126
Warrant appointing Captain Gyles Shelley, Master Gunner of the PRINCE, to be Master Gunner of the ST GEORGE in place of the former who has been moved to the LONDON. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/124
Warrant appointing John Tilly, late Master Gunner of the CONSTANT WARWICK, to be Master Gunner of the ADVICE in place of the former who has been moved to a new Third Rate building in a Private Yard. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-17 ADM/A/1782/148
Requiring the WOLF Hired ship to be supplied with eight months Victuals for a voyage to New York and Virginia.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/122
The Commander of the MONCK has reported that the rudder is unsafe. A survey of the ship is ordered at the Nore with a recommendation as to which Yard she is to be sent for repair.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/120
Increasing the Salary of the Clerk of the Survey at Sheerness to sixty pounds per annum.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/111
The Petition of Matthew Wood who has served as a Purser more than twenty years but due to age is no longer able to discharge his duties. On the reverse is a note referring the Petition to the Navy Board for opinion and report.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/109
Warrant appointing Thomas Adams, Master Gunner of the LONDON, to be Master Gunner of the PRINCE in place of the former who has been moved to the ST GEORGE. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-14 ADM/A/1782/107
Warrant appointing William Hodges, Master Gunner of the ST GEORGE, to be Master Gunner of the LONDON in place of the former who has been moved to the PRINCE. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-19 ADM/A/1785/170
We direct you to cause the RUPERT to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, and victualled for four months or as much as she can conveniently stow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-20 ADM/A/1785/182
We are informed by the Commissioners of Transportation in their letter of today that two of the Transport Ships now at Portsmouth, namely the SPOTTED CALF of Bristol, John Knight Master, and the PELICAN of Bideford, Peter Trings Master, having by accidents, the former lost the Bowsprit, and the othe…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-20 ADM/A/1785/184
In your letter of the 16th inst; you informed us that for the better dispatch of the Works In the Deptford Yard there is occasion for building a Storehouse there of one hundred foot long and and twenty foot broad on the back side of the Rigging House, and also a House Crane on the new Wharf befo…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-15 ADM/A/1785/150
Our Orders to you of the 6th April last directed you to remove the Stop on some part of the Pay of several Commanders of their Majesties Ships on account of their failure in preforming the Instructions annexed to their Commissions.…