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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-18
ADM/A/1773/302
Nicholas Kemp, late Master Gunner of the FANFAN sloop, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the VESUVIUS fireship. You are directed to enter home accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 18 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-23
ADM/A/1773/329
Andrew Rogers is to be appointed Naster Gunner of the ketch building by Mr Haydon at Limehouse. You are directed to enter him accordingly, as soon as she is ready to receive him, 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)
1691-03-18
ADM/A/1773/315
Thomas Horseman, Boatswain of the NATHANIEL fireship, is to be appointed Boatswain of the VESUVIUS fireship. 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 18 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-18
ADM/A/1773/316
Thomas Hall, Carpenter of the NATHANIEL fireship, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the ketch building by Mr Haydon. You are directed to enter him accordingly as soon as she is ready to receive him, 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)
1691-03-11
ADM/A/1773/265
John Keyes is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the fireship building by Mr John Taylor. 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 11 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-13
ADM/A/1773/283
John Redde is to be appointed Master Gunner of the STROMBOLO fireship. 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 13 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-13
ADM/A/1773/285
We have confirmed the warrant dated 30 March 1689 given by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Torrington, Admiral of their Majesties Fleet, to Lewis Rogers to be Cook of the DIAMOND.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-13
ADM/A/1773/287
John Marsh is to be appointed Boatswain of the FLAME fireship. 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 13 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-16
ADM/A/1773/289
John Butterworth is to be appointed Boatswain of the BLAZE fireship. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant assist proper. His warrant is to be dated 16 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-16
ADM/A/1773/291
Westfield Danks is to be appointed Cook of the STROMBOLO fireship. 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 dated16 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-13
ADM/A/1773/277
Richard Field is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the fireship building by Mr Taylor at Cuckold's Point. 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 13 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-03-13
ADM/A/1773/281
William Boulin is to be appointed Boatswain of the STROMBOLO fireship. 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 13 March 1691.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-31
ADM/A/1828/402
Cause the VIRGIN prize to be repaired at Sheerness forthwith. To be fitted and victualled for a voyage to the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-03
ADM/A/1828/408
Appoint Benjamin Davis, Boatswain, the SERPENT Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-31
ADM/A/1828/406
The FAULKLAND to be furnished with a Tender.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-05
ADM/A/1777/20
Upon consideration of your report of September 30th last concerning an allowance to be made to Lieutenant Perry for his service relating to the clearing of water from the Dock at Portsmouth, we direct you to make an allowance to him of forty pounds for his expense and loss of time on that service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-05
ADM/A/1777/22
Several of the Ships named in the margin are designed to be repaired and refitted at Portsmouth.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-03
ADM/A/1777/11
We direct you to cause the BRITTANNIA to be girdled with a girdling of eight inches thick as is proposed in your letter to this Board on the 2nd inst; we further direct you not to hire a Ketch to attend the West Indies Squadron until you receive further Orders.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-03
ADM/A/1777/15
We direct you cause a proportion of three months victuals for three thousand seven hundred and fifty men to be in readiness at Plymouth as soon as possible, to be put on board some of their Majesties' ships there, or sent abroad to them, according as this Board shall direct.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-07
ADM/A/1777/42
We direct you to cause the hired Ship LONDON MERCHANT to be furnished with two months victuals, and that the same be sent down to her without loss of time to the Buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-07
ADM/A/1777/36
We direct you to cause fitting Furniture to be provided for the Barge lately built at Deptford for the service of this Board, and for the six oar Barge which formerly belonged to the Secretary of the Admiralty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-28
ADM/A/1783/156
Captain Brown, Commander of the FALCON, advises us that the ship has sprung her main mast one third up. You are directed to have her fitted with another main mast upon her arrival at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-27
ADM/A/1783/154
William Simmonds is to be appointed Master Gunner of the WOLF, in place of the former dismissed, during her continuing in their Majesties' service. You are to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-29
ADM/A/1783/162
In pursuance of Her Majesty's pleasure, by letter from the Earl of Nottingham dated 26 April, Principal Secretary of State, you are directed to have the three Dutch men-of-war at the Flats off the Foreland, to be furnished out of the stores at Chatham, or elsewhere, with anchors and cables agai…
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