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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-03
ADM/A/1815/25
You are directed to have the Commissioners of the Victualling send orders by tonight's post to Mr Castle, to have the SMIRNA MERCHANT hired ship, now at Tinmouth, to be provisioned as much as she shall be in want of to bring her to the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-02
ADM/A/1815/23
Charles Mazy is to be appointed Boatswain of the JULIAN bomb vessel and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 2 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-02
ADM/A/1815/19
John Griffin is to be appointed Master Cook of the LITCHFIELD and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 2 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-02
ADM/A/1815/17
Richard Brebb, late Master Cook of the LOYALTY, is to be appointed Master Cook of the COVENTRY. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 2 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-03
ADM/A/1815/31
There are two lieutenants in one of the companies of His Majesty's Marine Regiment who are ordered to the West Indies and we fear the squadron now going to Jamaica will proceed before they can be paid.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-03
ADM/A/1815/27
We have given orders to all commanders of ships and bomb vessels now in Longreach that if they are apprehensive of any damage by ice in the river, they are to sail at the first opportunity to Sheerness and to remain there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-04
ADM/A/1815/45
You are directed to have the SHEERNESS cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-04
ADM/A/1815/41
John Ward, late Master Cook of the CAMBRIDGE is to be appointed Master Cook of the CHICHESTER. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 4 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-07
ADM/A/1815/55
The PRINCE GEORGE at Margate having but 12 days provisions and ordered to Scotland, we have ordered the ship to sail either to the Downes or Yarmouth Roads according to wind and weather. You are directed to have her immediately furnished with 2 months provisions from Dover or Yarmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-04
ADM/A/1815/47
The following orders relating to the two Marine Regiments should be given viz. (1) The Clerks of the Cheque to allow officers and their servants who have been absent from 22 February 1693 to the times they appeared at their muster, upon certificates from their respective Colonels.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-14
ADM/A/1814/443
Warrant for the appointment of William Moore to be Master Cook of the CROWN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-31
ADM/A/1814/441
In pursuance of His Majesty's pleasure, signified to this Board by the Duke of Shrewsbury, we direct you to cause the four Machine Vessels named in the margin to be forthwith discharged from His Majesty's service, and that the SEA HORSE be laid up and paid off.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-02
ADM/A/1815/11
Your letter of 24 December 1694 advised us that the Pink building for His Majesty at Eling, will be ready to be launched the first spring in February. She is named the WREN and established with the same number of men and guns as is allowed to the MARTIN ketch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-07
ADM/A/1815/63
Benjamin Bingham is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the TRUE LOVE bomb vessel and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 7 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-07
ADM/A/1815/61
Richard Jones is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the NEW AFRICA hired ship, in place of the former removed into the ASSISTANCE and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/75
Edward Kemp, late Master Carpenter of the SALLY ROSE, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the SWEEPSTAKES in place of the former removed to the FORESIGHT. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/73
Richard Penny, Carpenter of the SWEEPSTAKES is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the FORESIGHT in place of the former removed. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/71
Richard Mayo is to be appointed Master Gunner of the KITCHEN bomb vessel and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 8 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/69
Thomas Winter, Gunner of the ST PAUL fireship, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the GREENWICH in place of the former and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 8 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-07
ADM/A/1815/67
Benjamin Smyton is to be appointed Master Gunner of the WREN pink and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 7 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/83
Your letter of 5 January advised us that the new 5th rate ship building at Ipswich is to be launched about 20 February and is to be named the MILFORD and established with the same number of men and guns allowed for the PORTSMOUTH.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-09
ADM/A/1815/79
John Stone, Seaman, late of the ELIZABETH, was executed 9 November 1694 on board the SWIFTSURE off the Nore for mutiny. You are directed to have the wages due to him for his service in the HAMPTON COURT and ELIZABETH paid to such persons as shall be legally empowered to receive them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-08
ADM/A/1815/77
There are two lieutenants in one of the companies of His Majesty's Marine Regiment who are ordered to the West Indies and we fear the squadron now going to Jamaica will proceed before they can be paid.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-10
ADM/A/1815/94
Captain Barber, Commander of the PRINCE GEORGE hired ship, has advised by his letter of 7 January that he has but 12 days of provisions, and there are several Scotch officers and others aboard who are to go to Scotland and thence to Ostend.…
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