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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1777/199
We direct you to cause an allowance to be made to Doctor Richard Browne, lately employed as Physician of the Red Squadron of their Majesties' Fleet by commission from this Board, at the rate of twenty shillings per day from the date of his Commission to the time the Ship he last served on-board…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/111
Warrant appointing Benjamin Merritt, late Boatswain of the PORTLAND, to be Boatswain of the EXETER. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-18 ADM/A/1784/109
Requiring surveys to be made with costs of refitting and victualling the two Fireships called the ST VINCENT and the RUZEE recently taken from the French and now at Portsmouth together with recommendations for the number of Men and Armaments required to equip them.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/195
We direct you to prepare and present to us an account of the charge of the Victualling of the Navy for the year 1690, together with a calculation at what rate per diem the victuals of each Man for that year amounts to.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-30 ADM/A/1777/197
We direct you to cause an allowance to be made to Doctor Jeremiah Butts, lately employed as Physician of the Blue Squadron of their Majesties' Fleet by commission from this Board, at the rate of twenty shillings per day, from the date of his Commission to the time the Ship he last served on-boa…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-06 ADM/A/1823/75
Enclosing an extract of a letter from Sir George Rooke complaining of the lack of Provisions at Portsmouth and instructing that the Commissioners for Victualling are to be contacted forthwith in order to rectify the situation.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-07 ADM/A/1823/87
Very urgently requiring the VIRGIN Prize to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Chatham and supplied with three months Victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-07 ADM/A/1823/85
Ordering the JERSEY to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Portsmouth and supplied with ten weeks Victauls for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-28 ADM/A/1784/257
Instructing the Commissioners for Victualling to pay the Commissioners for Transportation for the cost of feeding the Men detailed to man the Shallops on their passage to Portsmouth; and instructing the fitting out of the three Bomb Vessels recently hired.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-25 ADM/A/1784/255
Giving the names of the Transport ships deemed suitable for towing the Shallops to Portsmouth for forwarding to the Master Attendant at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-23 ADM/A/1784/243
Announcing that instructions have been given for equipping Shallops with two small guns each and issuing an Order for Officers at Deptford to supply Captain Philips with the necessary ordnance.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-28 ADM/A/1784/259
Giving urgent instructions to man the three Bomb Vessels named in the margin with fifteen Men each and to supply the ships with three months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-29 ADM/A/1784/216
Ordering Men and an Officer to be sent from Plymouth to Falmouth to bring the TARTAN round to Plymouth
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-12 ADM/A/1778/77
Ordering the SAPHIRE to be cleaned and refitted on arrival at Portsmouth for service in the Channel with three months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-29 ADM/A/1784/210
Authorising the payment of Wages to Lieutenant John Mitchell late of the WARSPIGHT for his time in that ship with a condition attached.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-17 ADM/A/1784/211
Josiah Green Master and Owner of the [LAUREL] Ketch of London has applied for an Allowance for the time the ketch served as Tender to the WARSPIGHT for a period beyond its official discharge date.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-10 ADM/A/1778/65
Reducing the Complement of the CONCEPTION to her Middle Complement and requiring her surplus crew to be turned over into the SWALLOW.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-10 ADM/A/1778/67
Urgently requiring the cleaning, refitting and victualling of the PLAY Prize on arrival at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-22 ADM/A/1784/232
Enclosing a copy of a letter from the Duke of Leinster and asking for an opinion as to how long it would take to fit the forty Shallops with protective Blinds and whether this would best be done at Portsmouth or at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-30 ADM/A/1784/228
A question had arisen over Captain William Harman's observance of his Instructions when serving as Commander of the HAWK Fireship but the Admiralty has decided that he should be paid for his time in that ship provided care is taken concerning the number of Supernummaries born by him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-30 ADM/A/1784/222
Francis Young owner of the SALAM Pink is petitioning for compensation due to the vessel having been sunk in the Thames by HM ship the CAPTAIN. An Order by the Privy Council is enclosed and a request is made for a report.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/70
In your letter of the 4th inst; you informed us that the French Privateer lately taken by the PEARL and now at Deptford is fitting to be employed as a Man of War, and you detailed your opinion as to the number of Men and number and nature of Ordnance fitting to be established on her in War at home a…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-01-06 ADM/A/1791/66
Captain Munden, Commander of the LENOX, has informed us that he employed several Pilots of Deal for piloting from the Downs to Queenborough Swale several foreign Merchant Ships which came under the Hamburg Convoy, and were by this Board ordered there. …