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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-05 ADM/A/1782/50
The RUPERT, ADVICE, DRAGON and FALCON are to be urgently supplied with Stores for service in the West Indies, victualled for eight months and their Companies reduced to the Middle Complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-05 ADM/A/1782/48
Requiring all Third Rates required for active service this year to be urgently paid until June 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-01 ADM/A/1798/6
We think it necessary for the EAGLE, appointed to lie at the Buoy of the Nore to procure men for the fleet, should have such quantity of provisions, both wet and dry, constantly on board so that ships and vessels coming to the Buoy of the Nore and in want of provisions, may receive them more speedil…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-11 ADM/A/1797/255
Settling a Pension on Captain Captain Christopher Mason of the LONDON now discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-11 ADM/A/1785/95
Admiral Russell has in a late letter informed us that the most part of the Surgeons now in the Fleet are not much better than Barbers Boys.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-11 ADM/A/1780/285
Her Majesty has by her Order in Council dated the 4th June 1691 referred to this Board the Petition of the late Company of Shipwrights in Redrith in the County of Surrey, and other Master Shipwrights of England and Wales, together with some additional heads thereunto annexed, proposed by the Petiti…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-29 ADM/A/1780/283
Warrant for the appointment of William Marline to be Master Carpenter of the Fireship FOX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-29 ADM/A/1780/279
The Court Martial which lately enquired into the loss of the MARY ROSE and CONSTANT WARWICK, having adjudged that the Commanders and Officers of these Ships did their duty in the fight which they had with the French Men of War, which took the Ships, we direct you to cause the Commanders and Officers…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-22 ADM/A/1826/238
The men transferred from the DREADNOUGHT to the MARY to be paid before the latter sails from Spithead for the Straits.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-20 ADM/A/1826/224
Captain Byng to be paid the wages due to him for his time as Captain of the BRITANNIA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-20 ADM/A/1826/222
Confirming a warrant given by Admiral Russell, appointing Thomas Barrow, to be Master Carpenter of the VULTURE, Fireship; his predecessor having been appointed to the ASIA, Hulk.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-02 ADM/A/1796/219
The Victualling Commissioners informed your Board that they cannot give you any account of what Provisions have been put on board the Ships of the Main Fleet till they receive the indents and accounts from Portsmouth of the ships that were victualled there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-21 ADM/A/1826/236
Warrant appointing Martin Gough, to be Purser of the PRINCE OF ORANGE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-21 ADM/A/1826/234
Confirming a warrant given by Admiral Russell, appointing James Cox, to be Carpenter of the Lark; his predecessor having been appointed to the MARY GALLEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-21 ADM/A/1826/228
The ROYAL KATHERINE to be cleaned, refitted and victualled for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-28 ADM/A/1796/204
Warrant for the appoinment of John Whitnall to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessell FIREDRAKE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-27 ADM/A/1796/198
We direct you to cause the Commander, Lieutenants and all other Officers and Company of the OXFORD (except the Warrant Officers) to be turned over to the SWIFTSURE, and that the repairs of the OXFORD ( which is ordered into Portsmouth for that purpose) be forthwith taken in hand and dispatched as so…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-28 ADM/A/1796/200
Pursuant to her Majesty's pleasure, signified to this Board by Sir John Trenchard, Principal Secretary of State, we direct you to cause all possible dispatch be made in the fitting out of the Ships designed for the Fleet, and particularly the the SWIFTSURE, EAGLE and DEFIANCE, and you are to or…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-29 ADM/A/1796/208
Having received from the Admirals, the Agent for Commissioning of the Victualling Accounts of provisions in the fleet, by which it appears that the same is far short of the proportion ordered for them when they first went to sea, which was four months at whole allowance, we send you the said account…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-17 ADM/A/1826/194
Confirming a warrant given by Admiral Russell, appointing Andrew Neagle, to be Purser of the PLYMOUTH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-20 ADM/A/1826/212
The SUNDERLAND and the CHATHAM to be supplied with a tender each.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-29 ADM/A/1796/213
We send you enclosed an extract of a letter from the Admirals of the Fleet concerning the want of Necessaries for Sick Men in the Fleet, and direct you to take care that a fitting supply thereof is hastened to the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-29 ADM/A/1796/211
We direct you to cause the DEFIANCE to be carried down to and moored in safety at Blackstakes by the Riggers and Ordinary at Chatham, without staying for the arrival of the Commander of the said Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-30 ADM/A/1796/217
We direct you to give Orders for the increasing the number of Men on board the KINGFISHER to the highest complement allowed her.