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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-10
ADM/A/1784/59
Countermanding a previous general instruction and now requiring the urgent fitting out of the Fireships CHARLES and CYGNET with their highest Complements of Men and Victuals for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-08
ADM/A/1784/43
Requiring an Account of the cost of victualling the Navy during 1691 together with a breakdown of the cost of victualling each Seaman and Warrant Officer in Sea Victuals, with a copy to the Commissioners for Victualling.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-11
ADM/A/1784/67
The DUNKIRK has run aground at the Hook of the Black-rate but is now at the Nore. Instructions are given for her to be inspected and a report made as to whether she is capable of going to sea before being brought in for refitting.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-11
ADM/A/1784/65
Ordering the Officers and Men of the PORTLAND and PHOENIX which were burnt at Malaga to be paid (excepting the Commissioned and Warrant Officers). Notice is to be given that those crew members currently in London should go aboard the BREDA to collect their wages.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-13
ADM/A/1784/69
The TIGER is to be sheathed before she is launched and the FALCON and VIRGIN are to be refitted at the NORE, the former with one and the latter with two months Victuals for convoy work to the eastern counties.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-15
ADM/A/1777/101
You informed us in your letter of the 12th inst; to our Secretary that the defects of the NORTHUMBERLAND are such as cannot be repaired at Portsmouth without hindrance to the other Ships ordered to be refitted there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-16
ADM/A/1777/105
Warrant for Edward Hunt to be Boatswain of the Hulk ST DAVID.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-16
ADM/A/1777/107
A Petition by Thomas Chadbourne, Gunner of the BONAVENTURE, EDGAR and HOPE, to receive a Pension by reason of his age. This Petition is referred to the Navy Board for their consideration and Report.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-01
ADM/A/1784/1
Captain ST.Lo, Commander of the PORTSMOUTH, is asking to be discharged from an Imprest for procuring Men, claiming that he had already laid out a considerable sum in hiring vessels and recruiting Men and that the remainder of the money was lost when the ship was taken by the French.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-07
ADM/A/1784/33
Requiring a month's pay to be awarded to all Seamen involved in the late engagement with the French by order of the Queen.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-07
ADM/A/1784/31
Captain Elwes has reported the RICHMOND much damaged by weather. She is ordered into Liverpool for refit and Stores.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-07
ADM/A/1784/29
Ordering the fitting out of the recently launched RUPERT at Portsmouth with her highest Complement of Men and Victuals for four months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-06
ADM/A/1784/25
Calling for an audit of all Vessels and Stores remaining in H.M. Yards that are no longer fit for purpose so that they may be sold.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-06
ADM/A/1784/23
Halting the fitting out of Fireships previously ordered.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-04
ADM/A/1784/19
Wanting to know whether the French Prize brought into Portsmouth by the late Admiral Carter would be suitable for service in H.M. Navy and if so how many Men and number and types of guns she would be required to man and equip her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-07
ADM/A/1777/48
We direct you to cause all the Sergeants, Corporals and Drums belonging to the two Marine Regiments, serving in any of their Majesties' Ships, to be paid the Wages due to them for their service, at the same time that the private Sentinels aboard the said Ships are paid according to the Establis…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-08
ADM/A/1777/50
We direct you to cause the MONCK upon her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, and victualled for four months, or as much as she can conveniently stow, and that all possible dispatch be used.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-12
ADM/A/1777/83
We direct you to sign a Bill on the Treasurer of the Navy for the sum of four hundred pounds unto Mr Edmund Dummer, Assistant to the Surveyor of the Navy, as a Gratuity to him in consideration of his invention of the means for the weighing of the ST DAVID, and his extraordinary care, pains and indus…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-10-12
ADM/A/1777/74
In your letter of February 23rd last you informed us that on comparing Salaries allowed to the Officers of the Woolwich Yard with those allowed to the Sheerness Officers you found that the Salaries of the Master Attendants, Master Shipwrights, Clerks of the Cheque and Clerks of the Survey were the s…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-05-01
ADM/A/1774/234
Authorising the use of money held by the Treasury for a number of heads including Victualling, the Sick and Wounded, Pensions and the Service in general.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-05-01
ADM/A/1774/236
Setting a time limit on the Pay and Pension received by the Earl of Torrington.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-05-01
ADM/A/1774/240
Lieutenant Ford, formerly of the CHARLES GALLEY, although lacking a Certificate from her Commander, is to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-05-07
ADM/A/1774/254
Informing that the DEPTFORD, which is required for immediate service to Holland, has arrived at the Nore and is in want of Provisions and is to be supplied without delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-05-04
ADM/A/1774/244
Authorising payment to Mr […] [Barthurst] Judge Advocate of the Fleet for travelling expenses in attending Court Martial
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