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Allen, Robert
Austen, Robert
Blathwayte, William
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Cornwallis, Charles
Delaval, Ralph
Houblon, John
Kendall, James
Killigrew, Henry
Lowther, John
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-16
ADM/A/1828/220
Cause the TRULOVE, the GREYHOUND, and the MARY ANNE, bomb vessels to be fitted out for sea service in the channel. The officers of the Ordinance not having any Mortars to put aboard them, they are to be kept in readiness against the time they can be furnished with Mortars.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-16
ADM/A/1828/218
Provisions to be immediately sent to the CENTURION at the Buoy of the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-17
ADM/A/1828/234
Pay Mr Charles Farr as 3rd lieutenant of the WARSPIGHT, commission being granted 9th Dec 1694 by Admiral Russel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-17
ADM/A/1828/232
The new 5th rate building at Southampton by Mr Barker, to be named the SCARBOROUGH. Intended to be launched the 24th inst., to be fitted, manned, and victualed for service in the channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-18
ADM/A/1828/244
Lord Hamilton to be Mulcted two months pay for his failure in the performance of his instructions during the time he commanded the WOOLWICH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-18
ADM/A/1828/246
Give an account of where the Stores will be employed of when the Storeships intended for Cadiz are disposed of.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-14
ADM/A/1828/190
Appoint Thomas Corbin, Boatswain, of the EXPERIMENT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-05
ADM/A/1820/255
Are sending a survey report of the HASTINGS and require her decks and sides to be caulked, in the Downs, where she now is, to prepare her for her voyage to the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-05
ADM/A/1820/253
The wages due to William Munden, late First Lieutenant of the NORFOLK, are to be paid, the want of a Captain's Certificate notwithstanding.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-01
ADM/A/1820/258
Requiring a report on the proposals contained in the enclosed copies of letters sent by Colonel Russell, Governor of Barbados, to the Committee for Trade and Plantations, in which he requests that the island be supplied with a Sloop or Brigantine of the type built at Jamaica.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-04
ADM/A/1828/55
Appoint Turner Stevens, Master Gunner, the TRUELOVE, Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-04
ADM/A/1828/53
Appoint Thomas Linsey, Master Gunner, of the TERROR Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-04
ADM/A/1828/57
Appoint Richard Becket, Master Gunner, of the MARY ANNE Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-04
ADM/A/1828/65
Cause the LENNOX to be laid up and payed off at Portsmouth, to be fitted for sea as soon as possible. Her crew to be turned over to ships at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-06
ADM/A/1828/71
Pay George Everett, shipwright, £100 as reward for his discovering abuses and embezzlements in HM yards.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-05
ADM/A/1828/69
The Commander at Kinsale to be paid his salary at the same place as the other Officers are. Consider how the FAULKLAND, the DEPTFORD, and the CHATHAM may be more properly Gunned and Manned.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-07
ADM/A/1828/81
Consider whether William Hodges, Master, the VICTORY, comes within benefit of Pensions to Superannuated Officers.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-06
ADM/A/1828/77
Appoint Edward Parsons, Porter, Chatham Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-02
ADM/A/1828/25
Appoint John Diggens, Master Gunner, of the CARCASS, bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-02
ADM/A/1828/23
Appoint John Clarke, Master Gunner, of the COMET bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-02
ADM/A/1828/19
Appoint John Capell, Gunner of the PRINCE OF ORANGE, to be master Gunner, the GRAFTON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-02
ADM/A/1828/29
Appoint George Chilcot, Master Gunner, of the SERPENT, Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-02
ADM/A/1828/27
Appoint John Robinson, Master Carpenter, of the FURNACE, Bomb vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-03
ADM/A/1828/33
Appoint John Hutchins, Master Gunner, of the BASILISK Bomb vessel.
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