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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-30
ADM/A/1810/319
We direct you to cause the SANDADOES Prize and the HIND Pink at Portsmouth, and the MONTAGUE at Sheerness, to be cleaned and refitted at those places with all possible dispatch for Service in the Channe, and furnished with three months Provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-24
ADM/A/1784/174
Requiring a small sum of money to be imprest to Mr Samuel Pett for meeting the expenses of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/323
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Whiston to be Purser of the JOSIAH
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/168
Requiring the DOVER to be surveyed at the NORE following her running aground at Gravelines together with a recommendation as to which Yard she is to be sent for repair.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/166
Very urgently requiring the MARY Yacht to cleaned and refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/329
Sir Cloudesley Shovel having informed us that the Fireships MACHINE, ST PAUL, JOSEPH and CHARLES are in so bad a condition that they are of no service, we have therefore directed him to send them to the Buoy of the Nore, and direct you to give this Board an account to which of their Majesties' …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/164
Very urgently requiring the PEARL to be refitted for service in the Channel and supplied with three months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/331
Having ordered the PRUDENCE into such Merchant Dock in the Thames as the Owners shall desire in order for her to be refitted, we direct you to cause her to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel at the Charge of the Owners. You are to order her being victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/162
Requiring that the Commissioners for Victualling be instructed to order their Agent at Plymouth to make the CRESCENT Prize available to Commissioner Greenhill to assist in raising the wreck of the HENRIETTA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/325
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Golston to be Master Gunner of the JOSIAH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/299
Warrant for the appointment of John Windell to be Master Bricklayer of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/301
Warrant for the appointment of Richard Coaker to be Master Boat Maker of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/295
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Odell to be Master Mast-Maker of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/297
Warrant for the appointment of William Reeve to be Master House Carpenter of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/293
Warrant for the appointment of Phineas Shrewsbury to be Master Cook of the ROYAL WILLIAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-25
ADM/A/1784/188
A Contract is to be placed for three vessels which Captain Phillips has surveyed and considers suitable as Bomb Vessels to accompany a current Expedition. On conclusion they are either to be discharged or purchased.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/307
Warrant for the appointment of William Allen to be Cook of the NEPTUNE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/309
We direct you tocause the Yacht MARY to be cleaned, refitted and put in a condition for the Sea at Deptford with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-24
ADM/A/1784/182
Launching an enquiry into the victualling of the THOMAS and ELIZABETH Fireship when commanded by Captain Thomas Marshall and wanting to know what provisions were secured by money and what by Credits.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/305
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Pullen to be Master Carpenter of the JOSIAH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-27
ADM/A/1784/192
Believing that the DOVER is at Chatham she is ordered to be cleaned and refitted there and supplied with three months Victuals; and requiring the GODDWIN Prize to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth on arrival and supplied with three months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-25
ADM/A/1784/190
Requiring two months Provisions to be sent to the LONDON MERCHANT Hired ship at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-20
ADM/A/1784/133
Very urgently requiring the KATHERINE Yacht now at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-27
ADM/A/1810/276
You opined in your letter of the 24th inst; to this Board that it will be necessary to allow the JOSIAH the Men and Guns following for he rvoyage to Cadiz for their Majesties' Fleet in the Mediterranean.…
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