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Austen, Robert
Cary, Anthony
Cornwallis, Charles
Delaval, Ralph
Herbert, Thomas
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-01-03
ADM/A/1791/31
Warrant for the appointment of Captain William Pooley to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate Ship building at Hull.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-12-06
ADM/A/1790/242
Captain John Knapp late Commander of the HALF MOON Fireship is to be paid a reward for his part in attacking the French at la Hogue.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-12-31
ADM/A/1790/237
Captain Condon has been found not guilty at a Court Martial following the taking of his ship by the French and is to receive his wages.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-01-02
ADM/A/1791/7
Warrant for the appointment of George Brewill to b Boatswain of the Fireship LIGHTNING.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-01-02
ADM/A/1791/5
We direct you to cause another of their Majesties' Fireships at Deptford which can soonest be got ready (besides that lately ordered) to be fitted out to Sea for Channel service, and victualled for two months, and you are to return to us the names of the said two Fireships .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-12-28
ADM/A/1790/252
Wanting to know what salaries are allowed to Admirals' Secretaries when at sea in the Channel. Appended is a note recording that that in 1653 Jonathan Portman received two hundred pounds a year as Secretary to the General of the Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-02-25
ADM/A/1792/245
Discharging Robert and William Steele, Shipwrights in the Yard at Woolwich to which they had been pressed, on appeal from their Father Robert Steele, a shipyard owner at Stockwith in Nottinghamshire.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-15
ADM/A/1793/116
The KATHERINE to be cleaned and fitted so that she be ready to attend the King to Holland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-15
ADM/A/1793/120
Cause 7 or 8 able pilots for the Coast of Holland to be sent to the 3rd rate ships at the Buoy of the Nore, which are ordered to attend the King in his passage to Holland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-11
ADM/A/1793/91
To superannuate John Hayden late Master the DUKE and settle a pension on him as Master of a 2nd Rate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-11
ADM/A/1793/93
The MARY and The HAMPSHIRE, joining Admiral Aylmer in Tor Bay, to be put in condition for the sea with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-14
ADM/A/1793/101
Appoint John Smith, Boatswain, the VULCAN Fireship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-09
ADM/A/1793/71
Report whether the house and garden in poor repair at Deptford Dockyard be taken down and used for the Yard. Cause a boat to be built for the ROYAL WILLIAM as the Earl of Denby shall direct.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-09
ADM/A/1793/75
To allow Henry Wise, Gardener at the house at Deptford, wages for himself and servant from the time they were lined out of the Books until Mr St Michell came to inhabit there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-09
ADM/A/1793/73
Cause 5 men to be added to the complement of the KATHERINE transport ship. The main mast of the PEARL PRIZE having gone by the board to be refitted immediately upon her arrival at Woolwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-07
ADM/A/1793/56
Desire and direct you to pay the Officers and Crew of the late Fireship SPEY their wages up to the time she was burnt.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-04
ADM/A/1793/33
To contract with Mr Wyatt for building a new 3rd rate ship of 80 guns.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-06
ADM/A/1793/45
Appoint William Palmer, Master Carpenter, the SALAMANDER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-04
ADM/A/1793/37
The PORTLAND to be launched at Woolwich, to be fitted, manned, and victualed for the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-06
ADM/A/1793/43
Appoint John Wooler, Master Gunner to the VULCAN fireship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-02
ADM/A/1793/9
Cause the Company belonging to the TIGER PRIZE, now at Spithead and bound in convoy to Spain, to be paid their Wages.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-03
ADM/A/1793/21
Desire and direct you to turn over fifty Able Seamen from the SAINT ANDREW to the NEPTUNE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-03
ADM/A/1793/19
Appoint Robert Lee, Master Cook, the LENOX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-12-13
ADM/A/1790/76
Ordering the GOODWIN Prize to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Portsmouth and victualled for two months.
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