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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-04 ADM/A/1791/42
We direct you to cause the PLYMOUTH, on coming into Portsmouth to be refitted for the damages she lately received, and her victuals to be completed to two months from the last day of this month.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-03 ADM/A/1791/31
Warrant for the appointment of Captain William Pooley to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate Ship building at Hull.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-10-23 ADM/A/1769/337
The Men of the DREADNAUGHT to have two months pay. The two hired Hospital Ships the CONCORD and the SOCIETY to be paid off and discharged. The Company of the hired ship CORONATION to be turned over to the RESERVE and paid the wages due to them. To propose a person to be Master Joiner at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-10-28 ADM/A/1769/335
The STATHOUSE Hulk and the ELIZABETH and SARAH Fireship to be sunk at Sheerness for Security of the graving Place.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-05 ADM/A/1790/239
A competent Shipwright is to be sent to inspect ships in Lubeck offered for sale. He is to report whether they may be suitable to serve as Men-of-War and what price is being asked for them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-10-18 ADM/A/1769/267
MORDANT to be fitted at Plymouth for Service in the Straights.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-08 ADM/A/1790/244
Ordering the wages of the Commanders, Officers and Ship's Companies of the NAVY and MONMOUTH Yachts that served on the Coast of Ireland to be paid when they arrive either at Liverpool or Chester.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-31 ADM/A/1790/237
Captain Condon has been found not guilty at a Court Martial following the taking of his ship by the French and is to receive his wages.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-02 ADM/A/1791/9
Your report to this Board dated November 23rd last concerning Officers for the Plymouth Yard proposed it necessary that the place of Storekeeper and Clerk of the Cheque there should be executed by two Persons as in other Yards, and that these officers should be allowed each one hundred pound a year…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-28 ADM/A/1790/252
Wanting to know what salaries are allowed to Admirals' Secretaries when at sea in the Channel. Appended is a note recording that that in 1653 Jonathan Portman received two hundred pounds a year as Secretary to the General of the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-10-29 ADM/A/1769/295
To fit the RUPERT for a voyage to the Straights in the room of the DEFIANCE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1690-10-29 ADM/A/1769/293
SALLY ROSE now at Deptford to be fitted for service in the Channel and furnished with 3 months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-28 ADM/A/1792/263
Warrant appointing Robert Tubb, Master Cook of the ASSURANCE, to be Master Cook of the westernmost new Third Rates building at Harwich. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-28 ADM/A/1792/265
Warrant appointing John Langrack, late Carpenter of the SWALLOW, to be Master Carpenter of the westernmost new Third Rates building at Harwich. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-25 ADM/A/1792/245
Discharging Robert and William Steele, Shipwrights in the Yard at Woolwich to which they had been pressed, on appeal from their Father Robert Steele, a shipyard owner at Stockwith in Nottinghamshire.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-23 ADM/A/1792/220
Authorising the payment of Captain Laurie of the CHARLES Fireship for his time as Lieutenant in the DUKE following his recruitment of Men for that ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-23 ADM/A/1792/218
Instructing the acceptance of Mr Snelgrove's offer to build a new Fourth Rate in the Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-28 ADM/A/1835/299
Your letter of 26 October advised that the BONADVENTURE merchant ship may be fitted to serve His Majesty as a man-of-war in about a month's time.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-28 ADM/A/1835/303
His Majesty's Order in Council of 22 October declared that provision be made for sea victuals for 40,000 men for 13 lunary months to serve in His Majesty's ships next year.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-24 ADM/A/1792/227
Concerning the launching of new ships at various places and their victualling and establishment.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-28 ADM/A/1835/307
William Corley, late Cook of the HOPE, is to be appointed Master Cook of the REVENGE, the new 2nd Rate building at Chatham. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 28 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-28 ADM/A/1835/313
We do hereby desire and direct you to cause his Majesty's ships the BONADVENTURA and SEAFORD at Plymouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted these for service in the Channel, and their victualling completed to ten weeks causing all possible despatches to be made therein.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-21 ADM/A/1792/202
Ordering the MONTAGU to be refited at Chatham for service in the Channel and supplied with four months' Victuals.