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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-04
ADM/A/1815/43
You are directed to sign a bill on the Treasurer of the Navy for the pay due to the Rt. Hon. Lord Berkeley as Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron from 1 December 1693, the date of his commission for that employment, to 16 April 1694, the date of his commission for Admiral of the Blue.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-04
ADM/A/1815/39
Edward Withers is to be appointed Master Gunner of the GREYHOUND Bomb Vessel and you are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals or himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 4 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-11
ADM/A/1815/59
Joseph Hastings is to be appointed Master Cooke of the PHEONIX bomb vessel and 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 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-09
ADM/A/1815/92
Charles Tucker is to be appointed Purser of the MILFORD and you are directed to enter him accordingly with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 9 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-10
ADM/A/1815/104
His Majesty having determined to send 3,000 land soldiers to Cadiz to serve in the fleet commanded by the Rt. Hon.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-10
ADM/A/1815/100
Captain Browne, Commander of the OWNERS ADVENTURE bomb vessel, in his letter of 7 January an extract of which is enclosed, asks to have 5 more men. You are directed to report your opinion whether you think it fit to increase the number established.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-11
ADM/A/1815/122
David Nicholls is to be appointed Master Cook of the GREYHOUND bomb vessel and you are directed to enter him accordingly with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 11 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-11
ADM/A/1815/118
Gabriell Knight is appointed to be Master Carpenter of the HENRY prize and you are directed to enter him accordingly with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 11 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-21
ADM/A/1814/327
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Reed to be Master Gunner of the Bomb Vessel SOCIETY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-21
ADM/A/1814/323
Having ordered twenty Seamen belonging to the RUPERT's PRIZE to be discharged into the SAPHIRE at the Buoy of the Nore, which is ordered to cruise off St. Malo, we direct you to cause these Men to be paid the Wages due to them on the Ship's return to Spithead.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-27
ADM/A/1814/337
Warrant for the appointment of Peter Bartlett to be Master Cook of the SWIFTSURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/267
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Pritchard to be Master Gunner of the Ketch NIGHTINGALE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/277
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Gibson to be Boatswain of the SWEEPSTAKES.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/275
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Scott to be Boatswain of the Ketch NIGHTINGALE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/271
Warrant for the appointment of John Windor to be Master Carpenter of the HASTINGS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-19
ADM/A/1814/289
Warrant for the appointment of David Griffith to be Boatswain of the new fourth Rate building at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-24
ADM/A/1814/341
We direct you to cause the RUPERT's PRIZE to be cleaned and refitted at Woolwich for service in the Channel and victualled for three months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-26
ADM/A/1814/369
We direct you to sign a Bill on the Treasurer of the Navy for the Pay due to Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue Squadron, from the 16th April 1694, the date of his Commission for that employment, until the 1st January next.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-26
ADM/A/1814/375
We are informed that Arthur Christmas, a Carpenter belonging to a Ship called the KING WILLIAM, employed by the Greenland Company, is lately impressed out of this Ship to work in the Deptford Yard. We direct you forthwith to give orders for his being discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-06
ADM/A/1814/51
We understand from your letter of the 5th inst; that notwithstanding our late Orders for hiring or buying five Machine vessels, Sir Martin Bockman expects only four, having no more large Machines, and that the SEAHORSE and the GREYHOUND DOGGER, lately employed in the same service, are agreed to go a…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-06
ADM/A/1814/47
Warrant for the appointment of George Nicholls to be Purser of the ROYAL WILLIAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-06
ADM/A/1814/45
We direct you to cause the MERMAID on her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for three months. You are also to cause the present number of Men on the Ship to be increased to the highest number established on her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-06
ADM/A/1814/43
We direct you to cause the Bomb vessel PHEONIX at Chatham to be fitted for Channel service instead of the ENDEAVOUR which is unserviceable, according as you were directed to fill the the other Bomb vessels in our letter of November 30th.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-09
ADM/A/1819/98
Warrant appointing William Watson, Boatswain of the MERMAID, to be Boatswain of the WOOLWICH in place of the former who has been moved to the YORK. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Navy Board.
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