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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-04-03
ADM/A/1841/42
Ordering the MONMOUTH to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Chatham for service with the Main Fleet in the Channel. The OWNER's LOVE is to be refitted at Portsmouth and victualled for four months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-10
ADM/A/1831/73
We direct you to caise the CHESTER at Chatham to be fitted out to Sea for service in the Channel, manned with her highest complement of Men and victualled for three months.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/67
We direct you to give Orders that when Lord Bekeley, Admiral of the Fleet, sends into Port any of the Ships under his command to clean, this should be dispatched with all possible diligence.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-09
ADM/A/1831/69
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Jansen to be Boatswain of the GERMOON Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/65
We have directed Rear Admiral Benbow to send a Brigantine to Harwich. Upon her arrival there we direct you to cause her to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and her victualling completed to ten weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/125
You are directed to have the BIDEFORD, upon her arrival at Deptford, sheathed and fitted there for a foreign voyage and victualled for 4 months for her middle complement of men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/123
You are directed to have the ANGLESEA, upon her arrival at Plymouth, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks. You are to have the LINCOLN sheathed at Plymouth, fitted for a foreign voyage, manned to her middle complement of men and victualled for 4 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-10
ADM/A/1831/80
A Commission was granted by Sir William Phipps, Governor of New England, dated The 3rd of July 1693, for Lieutenant Richard Helson to be Lieutenant of the CONCEPTION Prize.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-10
ADM/A/1831/75
Upon consideration of your letter concerning the OXFORD we direct you to cause the Ship to be fitted with all dispatch at Portsmouth, where she now is, for a voyage to Newfoundland, and to supply her with six months provisions for her highest complement of men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-10
ADM/A/1831/77
We are sending enclosed an Order of their Excellencies the the Lords Justices, together with the Proposals of William Partridge for the building of Ships in New Hampshire for his Majesty's Navy, and providing Naval Stores.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/131
George Howell is to be appointed Master Cook of the STERLING CASTLE, in place of the former moved into the EAGLE. 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 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/135
The ST VINCENT in the Downes is ordered to sail to the Buoy of the Nore and you are directed, upon her arrival there, to have her surveyed and to give your opinion as to where she may be refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/133
Elias Bassey is to be appointed Master Cook of the HUNTER fireship. 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 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-12
ADM/A/1835/127
We are informed that the squadron of ships bound for the Straits is in want of butter and cheese. You are directed to give us an account of how the matter stands and how it is proposed to furnish the squadron with these species of provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/51
We send you enclosed a Copy of the letter from Captain Allen, Commander of the BONAVENTURE, concerning his Purser being furnished with Credit for thirty six tons of Beer and five thousand weights of Bread, and we direct you to give the necessary Orders that the Ship be supplied with as much of the P…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-06
ADM/A/1831/45
In pursuance of his Majesty's pleasure signified to this Board we direct you to cause such alterations to be made to the ROYAL TRANSPORT as desired by the Marquess of Carmarthen for improving her sailing.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/53
The Advice Boat MERCURY having received some damage by the TERRIBLE Guardship running aboard her, we direct you to cause her to be repaired and put into a condition for Sea with all possible dispatch…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/57
We direct you to cause the SWEEPSTAKEs, now off Tinmouth Bar, to be supplied with fourteen days Provisions for her complement of Men, or Credit for the same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-08
ADM/A/1831/59
We direct you to cause the ANGLSEA now at Plymouth to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel and victualled for ten weeks with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1689-10-09
ADM/A/1835/101
Having ordered the brigantines DILIGENCE and INTELLIGENCE to Portsmouth and the SHARK to Sheerness, you are directed to have them, upon their arrival there, laid up and paid off, and also the POST BOY now at Portsmouth and the DISPATCH at Sheerness to be laid up and paid off there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-10
ADM/A/1835/115
Your letter of 7 October gave a list of great ships which you think may be refitted at Chatham, Woolwich yard and merchant docks in the river, and Portsmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-04
ADM/A/1831/31
The Victualling Commissioners have stated that so many of their members are out of town that they are unable to send someone to Torbay to manage the victualling of the Fleet. We direct that you order them to send one of their Board there, and order their absent members to return to town.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-06-05
ADM/A/1831/33
Rear Admiral Benbow has informed us that the MONCK has sprung her Foremast and Topmast, and the CHATHAM, WOOLWICH and DEPTFORD, a Topmast each. We direct you to cause the said Ships to be forthwith furnished with other Masts at Yarmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-10-08
ADM/A/1835/77
You are directed to have the provisions aboard the LITCHFIELD and DEPTFORD at the Buoy of the Nore to be completed to 10 weeks each, and upon the arrival of the PORTSMOUTH to have her provisions completed to that proportion with all possible dispatch, as these ships are to go to the East Country to …
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