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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-29 ADM/A/1817/337
To know what ships from 60-90 Guns may be built in England in a reasonable time. How many may be made in the Thames and Medway.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-28 ADM/A/1817/321
Launch the new Bomb vessels as soon as possible. The one at Chatham to be named the SERPENT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-28 ADM/A/1817/313
Mr Harding, Master Shipwright at Deptford informs the Board that he is allowed wood for fuel if it is not useful in the yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-29 ADM/A/1817/327
Provide stores and hire ships to transport same to Admiral Russell's Fleet in the Mediterranean.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-29 ADM/A/1817/361
Desire and direct an account of the Perquisites formally enjoyed by the Officers of the Yards.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-02 ADM/A/1838/19
Enclosing a copy of the Orders given to various Vice Admirals for procuring Men for the coming Summer's operations and requiring money to be made available to Clerks of the Check and Muster Masters for the above purpose. The names of those who are to receive money are listed on the reverse.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-07 ADM/A/1838/51
Giving instructions to buy two French Prizes at Portsmouth viz the LEWIS [ST. LEWIS] and the RAINBOW at knockdown prices or not at all.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-06 ADM/A/1838/49
The BURLINGTON has arrived at Spithead and has been ordered by the Admiralty into Portsmouth Harbour. Orders are given for her to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel together with ten weeks Provisions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-07 ADM/A/1838/55
Concerning delayed victualling accounts for the Straits and other foreign parts and ordering them to be forwarded to the relevant Navy Board official responsible for dealing with them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-07 ADM/A/1838/57
Instructing that two thirds only of the wages due to Captain John Wooden of the BLAZE Fireship bound for the West Indies be paid to him. Captain Clements of the MAIDSTONE has met with an accident and has gone ashore at Rye.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-08 ADM/A/1838/65
Enclosing proposals made by the Colonels of the two Marine regiments as to their better regulation and requesting an opinion from the Navy Board before the Admiralty attends at Kensington on Sunday.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-02 ADM/A/1838/27
Instructing the sum of four hundred pounds to be paid to Mr Edward Whittaker, to Solicitor to the Admiralty, for his services.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-04 ADM/A/1838/33
Urgent proposals for the victualling of ships detailed for voyages to the West Indies are called for. The names of the vessels are given in the margin.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-04 ADM/A/1838/31
Having been informed that the CROWN is not in a condition to undertake a voyage to the West Indies and that the BONAVENTURE at Plymouth is already sheathed Instructions are given for her to be fitted and victualled at Plymouth and to proceed to Newfoundland via Portugal.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-04 ADM/A/1838/39
The Navy Board has reported on Second, Third and Fourth Rate ships both sheathed and unsheathed which are in good condition as regards the condition of their hulls and which are fit to proceed to the West Indies including the NORWICH which the Board claims has been sheathed; but a letter from her Co…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-05 ADM/A/1838/43
Warrant appointing Edward Horton to be Master Carpenter of the SHEERNESS in place of the former who has been moved to the new Fourth Rate on the Isle of Wight.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-14 ADM/A/1838/95
The NORWICH, currently in the Downs, is to proceed either to Portsmouth or Chatham depending on the wind. Once there she is to be sheathed and fitted for a voyage to the West Indies. She is to receive eight months victuals for a middle complement of Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-26 ADM/A/1817/297
Pay Mr Burchett one hundred pounds for his late passage from Cadiz to England.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-01-12 ADM/A/1838/90
Enclosing a list of ships detailed to proceed to the West Indies showing the ports and places where they are to be found and requiring orders to be given to the Commissioners for Victualling to make haste in making up their full amounts of victuals until the time they sail.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-28 ADM/A/1817/309
The HAPPY RETURNS and the ROBERT and ELIZABETH smacks, to be discharged the Service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-03-28 ADM/A/1817/307
The QUEEN, the ROYAL WILLIAM, the NEPTUNE, and the VANGUARD, to be sheathed at Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-13 ADM/A/1838/101
Instructing that Lord Berkeley is to receive twenty shillings a day table money from the time he was last paid and in the future as Ordered as an Admiral of the Blue and Commander in Chief of the Fleet over and above the last Establishment.