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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-22 ADM/A/1835/233
David Kilpatrick, Surgeon of the DUNWICH is bound for the Straits, but being material evidence for His Majesty against Captain Smith, late commander of the DUNWICH. You are directed to have another Surgeon sent in place of David Kilpatrick so that he may be present at the trial.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-19 ADM/A/1835/205
Your letter of 9 October to our Secretary sent a copy of the survey of the RESOLUTION and you have proposed sending the ship to Chatham, but the ship requiring a greater repair you think it best to pay her off and we have therefore ordered her officers and company to be sent to Portsmouth, some by t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-17 ADM/A/1835/197
You are directed to give orders that the SUN prize be fitted with all possible dispatch at Plymouth, notwithstanding that she has been sold by prize officers to private persons.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-20 ADM/A/1835/213
The BURLINGTON, MARY galley, LYME and EXPERIMENT, being ordered to cruise on the coast of France, under the command of of Captain William Kerr who has been directed to send them by turns to Portsmouth to clean and victual.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-18 ADM/A/1831/128
A list of the Ships in which Jacob Penn served from 1666 to 1695. Signed by George Rooke, Naval Lord.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-16 ADM/A/1835/183
Your letter of 13 October sending a report of the officers at Portsmouth about the CUMBERLAND whereby it is proposed that her tenderness may be cured without girdling, the chief reason being the ill stowage of the ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-16 ADM/A/1835/181
Robert Warren, Boatswain of the COMET bomb vessel, has been appointed Boatswain of the ROEBUCK in the room of the former deceased. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 16 October 1696.
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) 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.…
Document signed by George Rooke, 1650-1709, Admiral of the Fleet and Admiralty Commissioner under King William III (Manuscript) 1696-05-25 ADM/A/1830/336
Copy of a list of required butter and cheese required by the fleet, for 63 ships individually listed and named.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-06 ADM/A/1842/94
It appears to us by the Weekly Progress that the ADVENTURE will not be dispatched before the 29th of this month, and as she is required as soon as possible we direct you to cause more hands to work on her in order to expedite her dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-05 ADM/A/1842/53
We direct you to cause a months Provisions to be sent down to the CENTURION in the Hope. You are also to give Orders that the Provisions aboard the HENRY Prize be completed to ten weeks, either at Yarmouth or the Nore, at which place she shall first arrive.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-05 ADM/A/1842/65
The Yacht HENRIETTA at Deptford, having in her late voyage to Holland sprung her Topmast, we direct you to cause her to be forthwith fitted with another Topmast.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-03 ADM/A/1842/19
We direct you to cause the BRISTOL and SOCIETY Hospital Ships, now in the River Thames, to be furnished with so many Men from the Yards, and Ships which are fitting out in the River, as may be sufficient to carry them to the Hope.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-03 ADM/A/1842/21
We have ordered the ROCHESTER to Chatham and the COVENTRY to Deptford to be cleaned and refitted. We direct you upon their arrival there to cause their repairs to be immediately taken in hand with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-02 ADM/A/1842/14
A List of Slop Cloathes supplied by the Slopsellers of His Majesty's Navy to the respective Ships of the Fleet, as there shall be occasion, the several Particulars of Slop Cloathes hereunder mentioned , for the use of the Seamen serving in the said Ships. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/192
A Warrant was given by Admiral Russell dated 18th April 1695 for Mr Samuel Cocker to be a Volunteer on board the DRAGON. We direct you to cause the usual allowance to be made him during the time he served in that capacity on board the aforesaid Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/190
Warrant for the appointment of George Austen to be Master Gunner of the CHATHAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/208
Warrant for the appointment of Nathaniel Button to be Master Gunner of the ROYAL TRANSPORT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-14 ADM/A/1842/198
We direct you to cause the MEDWAY upon her arrival at Plymouth to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, and victualled for ten months accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-12 ADM/A/1842/165
We direct you to cause all such of the twenty Oared Boats as have been built for Fleet service, and are now either in the Thames, or at Chatham or Sheerness, to be fitted for service to be in readiness when the C-in-C at the Nore shall send for them and you are to let us know where these Boats now a…