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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-20 ADM/A/1788/204
We have examined the letter you sent us yesterday concerning the lists of the men you have received of the belonging to the ships of the West Indies Squadron for their service in their former ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-20 ADM/A/1788/200
We direct you make allowance for Captain Benbow Master Attendant at Deptford yard for his salary as Master Attendant for the time he spent as Master of HMS (ROYAL) SOVEREIGN in1690 and Captain of BRITANNIA in 1691, over and above the wages as Master and Captain of the said ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-17 ADM/A/1788/176
We direct you to have HMS DOVER at Portsmouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualed for 2 months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-19 ADM/A/1788/184
We require you to consider and report to us if you consider it fitting for the Service if the Great Ships as they are to be refitted at Black Stakes in the River Medway and if so what number and sort of guns should be on board them there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-19 ADM/A/1788/188
By Royal Proclamation Ships of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Rates shall be continued in Service and Pay for the whole of this Winter, and have leave to be absent according in the times expressed therein. We have sent orders to the Commanders of 1st.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-19 ADM/A/1788/186
We direct to cause HMS SWIFTSURE at Spithead to be provided with 3 months Victuals for a voyage to Bilbao.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-14 ADM/A/1788/168
We see fit to appoint Stephen Free to be Master Cook of HM Vessel the PORTSMOUTH Sloop in room of the former removed. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-13 ADM/A/1788/143
Her Majesty in a Order in Council on the 6th inst. declared it necessary for the timely provision of sea Victuals be made for 30,000 men for 13 lunar months, commencing 1st. January 1693.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-13 ADM/A/1788/147
We direct you to have HMS ASSURANCE to be forthwith cleaned and refitted at Deptford and victualed for 3 Months service in the Channel with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-12 ADM/A/1788/135
We direct you to cause HM Ketch SCARBOROUGH on her arrival at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for 3 months. And we do further direct you to send forthwith one months victuals to HM Ship CROWN at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-11-02 ADM/A/1789/20
You are directed to prepare an estimate for this Board, of the charge of building and fitting out 4 bomb vessels, each to be of the dimensions of the late bomb vessel FIRE DRAKE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-11-02 ADM/A/1789/14
You are to give direction to the Master, Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strand, to examine Lieutenant John Constable as to his capacity of being Master of any of their Majesties' ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-31 ADM/A/1788/314
Overleaf is a list of Ships, Vessels and Stores to be sold at a public Sale by 'Inch of Candle' to Their Majesties best advantage, and this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/272
We see fit to appoint John Roxby Master Carpenter of HM Fireship ST PAUL to be Master Carpenter of HM Storeship CANTERBURY in place of the former deceased. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/270
Whereas in your letter yesterday into the several surveys and enquires into the condition of the wrecks of HMS HARWICH and HENRIETTA wrecked near Plymouth, that neither is found fitting to be built on or repaired, nor can be disposed of to any advantage to HM Navy, other than being broken up and reu…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/276
We direct you to cause HM Yacht KATHERINE to be cleaned and refitted at Deptford with all possible dispatch for Channel service
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/282
We see fit to appoint Thomas Ives to be Boatswain of HM Bomb Vessel PHOENIX. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-28 ADM/A/1788/280
Ann Hart the Wife of Thomas Hart who was employed as Cooper to Service of the Victualling at Gibraltar and Cadiz has petition this Board for payment of £20 per year Salary for her Husbands service there over and above the like sum paid to him by the like sum paid to him by the Victualling Agents at …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-29 ADM/A/1788/286
We enclose a copy of a letter to this Board of an offer from Henry Johnson to sell a new ship of about 530 tons for HM Service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-26 ADM/A/1788/250
We direct you cause the Tenders to the 2nd Rate Ships to be discharged at the ships coming into Blackstakes.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-26 ADM/A/1788/254
We direct you to report to us what Stores that were lent out of HM several Yards to ships of the States General of the United Provinces that have been returned or otherwise paid for, and what remains due.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-27 ADM/A/1788/258
We see fit to appoint Thomas Baker Purser of HMS CHESTER to be Purser of HMS GREENWICH in place of the former deceased. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-10-26 ADM/A/1788/256
We direct you to pay HM Bounty to be paid to the Relations of the men of HMS JERSEY who have apparently been killed when she was taken by the French, notwithstanding that the death Certificates have not been signed by the Surgeon, as is alleged in the West Indies.