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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-12
ADM/A/1814/160
Our Order to you of the 14th November directed you to pay Wages to four Marines belonging to Captain Spraggs Company in the 2nd Marine Regiment for the time they were employed in raising Recruits after discharge from the ESSEX.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-13
ADM/A/1814/174
We direct you to cause the SOLEBAY on her arrival at Harwich to be cleaned and refitted there for Service in the Channel, and victualled for three months with all dsispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-13
ADM/A/1814/170
Having ordered the ASSISTANCE to Woolwich or Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted, we direct you on her arrival at either of those places to cause her to be cleaned and refitted accordingly for Service in the Channel, and victualled for three months .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/229
We direct you to cause the hired Ship SAMUEL & HENRY at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, at the charge of her Owners, and ordered to be victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/239
Notwithstanding our Orders of the 15th inst; for selling the SALLY ROSE, we direct you not to do so until a Privy Seal is passed for it.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/237
We direct you to consider and report to this Board your opinion what Salaries you think proper to be allowed to the several Muster Masters lately made at the out Ports.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/235
We direct you to cause the Advice Boat GOODWIN Prize at Plymouth to be cleaned there and put into a condition for the Sea.
You are also to give the necessary Orders for her to be cleaned once every month at that Port for the future according as she shall come there for that purpose.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/233
We direct you to cause the DARTMOUTH (now at Plymouth) to be cleaned and refitted there for Service in the Channel, and victualled for three months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/249
Warrant for the appointment of Joseph Hall to be Boatswain of the ANGLESEA
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/247
Warrant for the appointment of Andrew Milby to be Boatswain of the Bomb vessel OWNERS ADVENTURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/245
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Reed to be Master Gunner of Bomb vessel SOCIETY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-17
ADM/A/1814/243
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Cromey to be Master Gunner of the LINCOLN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-18
ADM/A/1814/253
Warrant for the appointment of John Cleverly to be Master Carpenter of the Bomb Vessel GREYHOUND Ketch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-20
ADM/A/1814/307
We are informed that the RUBY at Spithead is defective. We direct you to give orders for stopping her leaks at Spithead if this can be done there, and report to this Board as soon as may be whether she is fit to proceed to the West Indies where she is ordered.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/267
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Pritchard to be Master Gunner of the Ketch NIGHTINGALE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/277
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Gibson to be Boatswain of the SWEEPSTAKES.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/275
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Scott to be Boatswain of the Ketch NIGHTINGALE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/271
Warrant for the appointment of John Windor to be Master Carpenter of the HASTINGS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/289
Warrant for the appointment of David Griffith to be Boatswain of the new fourth Rate building at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-28
ADM/A/1813/289
The WINCHELSEA and BLAZE, Fireship, are at Spithead and are to be victualled for 4 months, from Portsmouth, ready for a voyage to the Canaries.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-28
ADM/A/1813/287
Warrant appointing Benjamin Nobbs, late Purser, of the SAPPHIRE, to be Purser of the ELIZABETH; his predecessor having been dismissed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-28
ADM/A/1813/285
Confirmation of a warrant given by the Marquis of Carmarthen, Rear Admiral of the Blue, dated 6th October 1694, appointing John Browne to be Master Carpenter of the CAPTAIN
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-27
ADM/A/1813/281
Warrant appointing Thomas Maine, Gunner, of the ALDBROUGH, Ketch, to be Master Gunner of the HAWKE, Fireship; his predecessor having died.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-28
ADM/A/1813/299
An order is to be placed with the Deptford Yard for the building of a twenty-oared boat for the use of the Right Honourable Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue. She is to be of the same dimensions as that recently built for Admiral Aylmer.
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