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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-17 ADM/A/1823/224
Confirming that Mr Wyles, Muster Master of the Blue, isto to proceed to Portsmouth to assist the Clerk of the Cheque in mustering H.M. ships there. When the NAVY Yacht returns from Holland she will be ordered to Portsmouth to attend him.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-23 ADM/A/1834/262
Warrant for the appointment of Daniel Starkey to be Master Cook of the Advice Boat EAGLE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-23 ADM/A/1834/260
Admiral Cloudesley Shovell, C-in-C of the Mediterranean Fleet, and John Nevill Esq; Rear Admiral of the Red, are going on Foreign service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-23 ADM/A/1834/264
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Warren to be Muster Master and Storekeeper at Deal.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/236
Warrant for the appointment of John Turner to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessel MORTAR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-14 ADM/A/1823/194
Gabriel Nerett, Surgeon, has been sent home from the Straits in disgrace. He is to be discharged the service and Surgeon's Hall is to be informed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-16 ADM/A/1823/200
Warrant appointing John Turner, Boatswain of the CHICHESTER, to be Boatswain of the MARY, in place of the former who has been moved to the CHICHESTER. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/234
Warrant for the appointment of John Dixon to be Boatswain of the Fereship HUNTER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/232
We direct you to cause the NONSUCH to be furnished with part of the Ordinary and Riggers at Deptford and Woolwich to enable her to proceed to the Buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-16 ADM/A/1823/208
Directing the Navy Board to negotiate with Mr Robert and John Castle of Deptford to build two new 4th Rates so soon as their present commitments allow. The ships are to have the same dimiensions as those about to be launched.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-16 ADM/A/1823/202
Warrant appointing Thomas Davis, Boatswain of the MARY, to be Boatswain of the CHICHESTER, in place of the former who has been moved to the MARY. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-16 ADM/A/1823/212
Ordering the DEFIANCE to be fitted out for sea and supplied with three months' Victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/238
Warrant for the appointment of Richard Nicholson to be Purser of the ESSEX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/244
Vice Admiral Mitchell informs us that the Ships which came with him from the Soundings desire to know what quantity of Beef and Pork they shall allow their men in lieu of Butter and Cheese.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-21 ADM/A/1834/242
Captain George Simmonds, Commander of the NORWICH, being ordered on a foreign Voyage, we direct you to cause such Wages as are due to him for service on board any of HM Ships to Michaelmas 1695 to be paid him notwithstanding he has not passed his Accounts.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-12 ADM/A/1823/178
The CAPTAIN is to be laid up and paid off at Woolwich and her Commissioned Officers and Men are to be turned over into the DEFIANCE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-15 ADM/A/1787/113
Announcing that Captain Hawkins of the MILFORD is to be made an allowance for victualling Danish Troops when in Cork.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-15 ADM/A/1787/111
Ordering the ST VINCENT Fireship to be refitted for a voyage to the Mediterranean on arrival at Portsmouth and supplied with eight months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-12 ADM/A/1823/174
A Brigantine building at Chatham is ready to be launched and is to be named the SWIFT. The news is confimed and an Instruction is given for her to be registered in the List of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-15 ADM/A/1787/109
The French Privateer taken by the CENTURION and now at Plymouth is not judged suitable to serve as a Man-of-War but possibly as a Fireship. Instructions are given for her to be so fitted as soon as other work at Plymouth permits. She is to be manned and armed accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-12 ADM/A/1823/176
Captain John Benbow had been ordered to take Command of a Squadron of named ships and to cruise of the coast of France for a certain period. This has now expired and he is to be rewarded for good service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-19 ADM/A/1834/212
We direct you to cause Doctor Cockburne, Physician of the Blue Squadron, to be paid the Wages due to him from the 15th January 1696, the date of his Commission for that employment, to this day, before he proceeds to the Straits where he is ordered along with Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-14 ADM/A/1787/103
Requiring the LONDON MERCHANT Hired ship to be urgently fitted out as a Hospital ship to serve with the Squadron going to the West Indies instead of the CONCORD staffed with a suitable number of Surgeons and supplied with medical necessities.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-13 ADM/A/1823/188
Captain St.Lo has opined that the JOSEPH Hired ship should receive six more guns and thirty more Men. An Order is given accordingly.