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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-13 ADM/A/1831/113
We direct you to cause the Provisions aboard each of the Bomb Vessels named in the margin, now at the Nore, to be completed to two months, and that they be furnished with Provisions from time to time as they spend thereon, so that when they sail from the Nore they may have full two months aboard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-19 ADM/A/1790/123
Calling for an Estimate of the cost of building two new Brigantines to accompany the Fleet next year of the same dimensions as others unless you wish to suggest improvements.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-08 ADM/A/1792/78
Warrant appointing Phillip Webber to be Boatswain of the DISCOVERY Brigantine in place of the former who has been moved to the STROMBOLO Fireship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-07 ADM/A/1792/76
Captain Killegrew Commander of the SAPHIRE has written from Gothenburg to report that his ship and the Milford are ice bound and has been forced to draw Bills in order to victual them locally. An Order is given for the Bills to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-14 ADM/A/1835/161
You are directed to have the SCARBOROUGH, upon arrival at Deptford, sheathed and fitted for a foreign voyage and her victualling completed to 4 months. You are to have her present number of men reduced to her middle complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-08 ADM/A/1792/92
Instructing the payment of Rear Admiral Mitchell as First Captain of the BRITANNIA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-19 ADM/A/1790/115
Ordering Carpenters to be taken off ships building and employed on "Old Works".
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-19 ADM/A/1790/113
Ordering the FORESIGHT and ARCHANGEL Hired ship to be provided urgently with Stores for a voyage to Virginia, Victualled for eight months and manned with their Middle Complement of Men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-12-19 ADM/A/1790/111
Authorising the an allowance of House Money for George Rooke, a Principal Officer, at the rate usually granted to Officers of equivalent rank.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-15 ADM/A/1831/121
Warrant for the appointment of John Wooley to be Boatswain of the FOWEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-15 ADM/A/1831/115
Richard Lapthorne, late Master of the MILFORD, was sent to London in March last to give evidence for the King against some of the Officers of the said Ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-08 ADM/A/1792/86
Requiring Bills to be signed for paying Sir Ralph Delaval and Sir Cloudesley Shovell their wages for service during 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-15 ADM/A/1835/173
You are directed to have the NORFOLK, IPSWICH and RUSSELL, upon arrival at Woolwich, cleaned and refitted there, or in a merchant yard, for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-13 ADM/A/1835/141
You are directed to give us notice of when you would have the great ships at the Nore ordered up to Chatham for repairs. You are also to furnish Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who is going with a squadron to the Straits, with sufficient credits for £4,000.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-12 ADM/A/1835/137
You are directed to give an account to this board every week from the several yards, the muster of the ships in ordinary there, officers and men. You are to have the provisions aboard the ESSEX prize, in the Nore, completed to 10 weeks.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-13 ADM/A/1831/102
Your letter of the 12th inst; to our Secretary sent to us a Copy of the Survey of the defects of the Fireship ETNA, and offered your opinion that it will be best to have her paid off and laid up in Ordinary at Plymouth. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-12 ADM/A/1831/96
We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain George Byng for the time he served as first Captain of the BRITANNIA to be forthwith paid him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-25 ADM/A/1794/175
William Cole is to be appointed to be Master Cook of the SOESDYKE yacht. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 25 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-24 ADM/A/1794/169
Your letter to our Secretary dated 19 April, sent a an estimate of the charge of making a small piece of wharf on the south side of the launch at Sheerness where the new ship is building, for defending the launch from surf.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-26 ADM/A/1794/186
The Commissioners of the Victualling have advised us that part of wharf at the Victualling Office at Chatham is about to fall down and must be new built and have sent an estimate for repairing the same and other work.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-21 ADM/A/1794/151
Your letter of 18 April gave an estimate of the charge of repairing the boom and chain at Upnor in the River Medway, which is at present decayed and unserviceable, amounting to the sum of £504.12.4.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-24 ADM/A/1794/165
The GERMOON prize, employed for gaining intelligence of the enemy, you are directed to have her furnished at Plymouth with a boat of 8 oars, and fitted with two square sails, like a French fishing boat, and with other things necessary, so that she may be sent in amongst the rocks where the French f…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-18 ADM/A/1794/133
You are directed to order the owners of the WARRINGTON hired ship, to have her cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel. You are also to have her furnished with 2 months provisions for her complement of men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-04-18 ADM/A/1794/129
Joseph Robinson, late Master Gunner of the SMIRNA MERCHANT hired ship, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the RESERVE in place of the former. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 18 April 1693.