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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-13
ADM/A/1822/121
Butler Noades, late Purser of the SMIRNA MERCHANT hired ship, is to be appointed Purser of the HARWICH. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance for wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 13 August 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/117
James Wilton is to be appointed Purser of the BURLINGTON. 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 12 August 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/115
Richard Simonds is to be appointed Purser of the SEVERN. 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 12 August 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/114
cover sheet to doc 113
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/91
The firehearth on the PENZANCE is dangerous to her and the ship is ordered by the Lord Berkeley into Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted having sprung her foremast. You are directed to give orders for placing the firehearth so that it may be in least danger of firing her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/89
The Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's fleet, has advised us that the ships under his command are in great want of buoys. You are directed to send down 10 buoys to them in the Downes as soon as possible.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-12
ADM/A/1822/99
The ROYAL WILLIAM and NEPTUNE are ordered on a voyage to the Mediterranean and you are directed to have them fitted out as flag ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-02
ADM/A/1822/25
You are directed to have the NORWICH, upon arrival at Kinsale, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-02
ADM/A/1822/23
Your letter of 29 July gave us an estimate for repairing one of the dwelling houses of the Victualling Office and making some alterations for the accommodation of 2 Clerks and the Cashier's Clerks in the house, amounting to £97.5.0. You are directed to have this put in hand.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-05
ADM/A/1822/35
You are directed to have the wages due to Captain Thomas Gardner for the time he commanded the ROYAL OAK paid, provided he has complied with his instructions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-02
ADM/A/1822/19
The ESSEX prize having sprung the head of the foremast, you are directed to have her repaired at Sheerness and put in a condition for sea. She is daily expected at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-09
ADM/A/1822/69
Captain Joseph Soanes, late Commander of the JAMES galley, has petitioned this Board that you refuse to pay him the wages due to his servants in that ship, until such time that he has cleared an imprest of £20.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-07
ADM/A/1822/65
Henry Ireland, late Gunner of the DARTMOUTH, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the new 4th Rate of 50 guns building at Portsmouth. You are directed to enter him accordingly 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)
1695-08-09
ADM/A/1822/79
Sir George Rooke has advised us that there is at Spithead but two vessels fit to go to the Mediterranean as tenders to the ships bound there. You are directed to provide as soon as possible, four ketches more, two for the 1st and 2nd Rates and two for the 3rd Rates.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-09
ADM/A/1822/77
You advised us in your letter of 7 August to our Secretary, that the new 6th Rate building at Shoreham by Mr Collins and Mr Chatfield, will be ready to launch about a month hence. She is to be named DUNWICH and established with the same number of men and rating of guns allowed for the JERSEY.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-09
ADM/A/1822/75
Sir George Rooke has advised us that the GLOUCESTER at Spithead is very tender and she is not fit to proceed upon service. You are directed to have her surveyed and to give your opinion to this Board as to what you judge is most fitting to be done.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-09
ADM/A/1822/81
The KATHERINE yacht is ordered to the Mediterranean to attend on Sir George Rooke, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's fleet there. You are directed to have her present complement of men increased to 40, during her service there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-05
ADM/A/1822/47
You are directed to have the VIRGIN prize upon arrival at Sheerness, to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-05
ADM/A/1822/45
We have confirmed a warrant given by the Rt. Hon. Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue, to John Scott on 25 June 1695, appointing him Master Cook of the HIND pink. You are directed to enter him accordingly 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)
1695-08-07
ADM/A/1822/61
Thomas Undey is to be appointed Master Gunner of the MARIANNA prize in the place of the former removed to the BURLINGTON. 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 7 August 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-07-08
ADM/A/1821/72
Having ordered the SEAHORSE to Rye to be cleaned, we direct you to give Orders for this to be done on her arrival there, and that she be supplied with Stores to fit her for Channel service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-07-17
ADM/A/1821/134
By your several Reports to this Board you have given us an account of the failures of the Captains of various HM Ships in the performance of their Instructions, and their Wages are to be mulcted as detailed. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-07-17
ADM/A/1821/128
Warrant for the appointment of John Holloway to be Boatswain of the Yacht MERLIN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-07-15
ADM/A/1821/112
Lord Berkeley, who has arrived at St. Helens with the Fleet under his command, has informed us that the Bomb Vessels need fourteen anchors and fourteen cables. We direct that such of them that cannot be supplied from the Stores at Portsmouth be sent there with all dispatch.
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