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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-19
ADM/A/1789/150
You are directed to have the SPY fireship cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-19
ADM/A/1789/152
You are directed to prepare a list of the Masters now serving in their Majesties' ships and of the ships in which they serve, and with dates of their warrants.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-24
ADM/A/1788/234
The Service requires the speedy dispatch of HM Fire ships CYGNET and [HAWKE] and the Bomb Vessel PHOENIX refitting at Sheerness for service in the West Indies. They are to be fitted out for sea and provisioned without any loss of time.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-21
ADM/A/1788/216
We direct you to order the Master Attendant at Sheerness to cause the mortars, guns, shells and other provisions to be loaded on board HM Bomb Ship the PHOENIX now refitting there, not withstanding she may not have proper Officers to take charge.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-21
ADM/A/1788/214
We direct you to clean and refit HMS SALLY ROSE at Sheerness and victualled for 2 months Channel service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-22
ADM/A/1788/226
William Burrell late Boatswain of HMS GREENWICH who lost his leg above the knee in an action with the French, is to be paid the wages and victualled as an Able Seaman on board HMS ROYAL CHARLES until some other arrangements can be made for his subsistence.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-21
ADM/A/1788/220
We see fit to appoint Thomas Charr late Boatswain of HM Fireship PHAETON to be Boatswain of HMS MONCK in room of Daniel Garrett removed to HMS ST MICHAEL. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-21
ADM/A/1788/222
We direct you, in refitting HM Fleet for next years Service to cause as many of the 1st and 2nd rate ships as require Docking and can be received into the Docks to be first refitted.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-20
ADM/A/1788/194
Whereas we are informed by Captain William Wright Commander of HMS ROYAL WILLIAM that 20 men (named in the Margin) belonging to that ship by our order of 31st August that he took with him in HMS CROWN to Alderney and Sark were made Run by the Clark of the Cheque at Chatham on the ROYAL WILLIAM'…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-20
ADM/A/1788/192
We see fit to appoint Samuel Price late Boatswain of HM Fireship BLAZE to be Boatswain of HMS CHESTER in room of the former who is deceased. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-20
ADM/A/1788/196
We direct you to have the RUPERT and ADVENTURE at Plymouth and the MARY at Woolwich to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, the latter without sheathing, and the RUPERT and ADVENTURE be victualled for 2 months and the MARY for 3.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-20
ADM/A/1788/204
We have examined the letter you sent us yesterday concerning the lists of the men you have received of the belonging to the ships of the West Indies Squadron for their service in their former ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-20
ADM/A/1788/200
We direct you make allowance for Captain Benbow Master Attendant at Deptford yard for his salary as Master Attendant for the time he spent as Master of HMS (ROYAL) SOVEREIGN in1690 and Captain of BRITANNIA in 1691, over and above the wages as Master and Captain of the said ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-17
ADM/A/1788/176
We direct you to have HMS DOVER at Portsmouth to be forthwith cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualed for 2 months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-19
ADM/A/1788/184
We require you to consider and report to us if you consider it fitting for the Service if the Great Ships as they are to be refitted at Black Stakes in the River Medway and if so what number and sort of guns should be on board them there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-19
ADM/A/1788/188
By Royal Proclamation Ships of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Rates shall be continued in Service and Pay for the whole of this Winter, and have leave to be absent according in the times expressed therein. We have sent orders to the Commanders of 1st.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-19
ADM/A/1788/186
We direct to cause HMS SWIFTSURE at Spithead to be provided with 3 months Victuals for a voyage to Bilbao.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-14
ADM/A/1788/168
We see fit to appoint Stephen Free to be Master Cook of HM Vessel the PORTSMOUTH Sloop in room of the former removed. For which this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-13
ADM/A/1788/143
Her Majesty in a Order in Council on the 6th inst. declared it necessary for the timely provision of sea Victuals be made for 30,000 men for 13 lunar months, commencing 1st. January 1693.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-12
ADM/A/1788/135
We direct you to cause HM Ketch SCARBOROUGH on her arrival at Deptford to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for 3 months. And we do further direct you to send forthwith one months victuals to HM Ship CROWN at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-02
ADM/A/1789/20
You are directed to prepare an estimate for this Board, of the charge of building and fitting out 4 bomb vessels, each to be of the dimensions of the late bomb vessel FIRE DRAKE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-02
ADM/A/1789/14
You are to give direction to the Master, Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strand, to examine Lieutenant John Constable as to his capacity of being Master of any of their Majesties' ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-10-31
ADM/A/1788/314
Overleaf is a list of Ships, Vessels and Stores to be sold at a public Sale by 'Inch of Candle' to Their Majesties best advantage, and this shall be your Warrant.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-01
ADM/A/1789/6
You are to give direction to the Master Warden and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strand, to examine Captain Robert Wynn and Captain Thomas Killingworth, as to their capacity of being Masters of their Majesties ships.
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