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Austen, Robert
Cary, Anthony
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-08
ADM/A/1794/63
The EAGLE has lately received some damage by being aground upon the Shipwash as she was coming from Holland.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-08
ADM/A/1794/61
You are directed to have the HIND ketch cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel and furnished with 4 months provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-05
ADM/A/1794/37
We think it fitting that the brigantine, lately built at Deptford, should be named the DILIGENCE, and that at Woolwich the SPY. You are to report to us your opinion on what numbers of men and numbers and nature of guns will be fitting to be allowed these vessels.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/11
His Majesty has been pleased to direct that Captain John Torpley, late Commander of the EDGAR, by reason of his great age and infirmities which render him unfit for further service, receive a pension as a superannuated officer.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/15
You are directed to forbear sheathing the SOUTHAMPTON and PORTLAND, notwithstanding our late order, and have them fitted for service in the Channel and supplied with 3 months victuals and manned to their highest complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/13
His Majesty has been pleased to direct that Captain Benjamin Walters, late Commander of the STERLING CASTLE, by reason of his great age and infirmities which render him unfit for further service, receive a pension as a superannuated officer.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-03
ADM/A/1794/27
Francis Vacey is to be appointed Gunner of the SOESDYKE yacht. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 3 April 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-18
ADM/A/1793/287
Refer the Petition of Captain Greenville Collins for speedy consideration of what is to be done Petition of Captain Collins for his Disbursements surveying and publishing the Coastal Pilot.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-01
ADM/A/1793/298
£120 pounds to be settled on Mosis Jaquau a French Sea Officer and Refugee who served as a volunteer 1691/2.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-01
ADM/A/1794/6
You are directed to have the SWEEPSTAKES at the Buoy of the Nore, furnished with 3 months victuals with all possible dispatch to sail with the light colliers going to Newcastle.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-31
ADM/A/1793/275
Swallowtail pendants to be sent aboard the ROYAL WILLIAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-31
ADM/A/1793/273
Appoint David Gray, Master Carpenter, the MILFORD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-29
ADM/A/1793/254
Application from Sir Cloudsley Shovel for expenses to attend Court Marshalls.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-29
ADM/A/1793/252
The CENTURIAN at the Nore to be furnished with 3 months provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-29
ADM/A/1793/250
Appoint Thomas Martin, master cook, the BERWICK.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-30
ADM/A/1793/265
To cause Lieutenant Lumley and his servants to be borne on the books of the PLYMOUTH for the time he commanded the ADVENTURE in the absence of Captain Dilkes.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-17
ADM/A/1775/62
Victuals for 1,500 men for two months to be sent to Kinsale for the squadron expected there from the Mediterranean.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-18
ADM/A/1775/72
The Masters of the ships carrying victuals from Plymouth to Kinsale are to place themselves under the orders of Captain Aylmer, in the event of his arriving there before them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-16
ADM/A/1775/54
Lieutenant Woods, late Lieutenant of the GEORGE, Hired Ship, has certified that her Chaplain, Mr Tuckerman, did not sail with the ship when she sailed from Plymouth for the West Indies and that Mr Patrick Moline carried out the duties of Chaplain for the remainder of the voyage.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-17
ADM/A/1775/58
£2,000 of appropriated money to be distributed; including that required to pay workmen at Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-10
ADM/A/1775/22
Acknowledges instructions received to take measures necessary to keep the ST GEORGE afloat at Portsmouth for a year or two until she can be dry-docked for a thorough repair.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-10
ADM/A/1775/28
Instruction to pay a bill-of-exchange for £100 drawn by Lambert Blackwell, British Consul at Livorno, on account of disbursement to Sir Joseph Hearn.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-12
ADM/A/1775/38
Captain Milleson, commanding the KATHERINE, Yacht, to be paid allowances for victualling English soldiers carried from Holland in 1689. Also for the suspicious persons apprehended by him during the last year while trying to enter and leave the River.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-12
ADM/A/1775/36
The PLAY , prize, and the BONAVENTURE, hired ship, to be provisioned at The Nore.
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