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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-10
ADM/A/1812/128
The DISCOVERY Brigantine at Deptford is to be laid up and paid off.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-10
ADM/A/1812/126
Warrant appointing Edward [Stafford], Purser of the PRINCE GEORGE, to be Purser of the COLCHESTER. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-12
ADM/A/1812/148
The LOYALTY at the Nore is under sailing orders but Captain Bokenham the Commander in Chief there has reported that the ship has no anchors, cables or sails fit for use.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-12
ADM/A/1812/152
Warrant appointing Thomas Chudley to be Master Shipwright at the port of Kinsale. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-16
ADM/A/1812/201
There is doubt whether the repairs to the KENT can be carried out promptly. But if they can be completed by the 20th November the work is to be put in hand at once. Should this target date date be seen as impractical, no work is to be commenced pending the issue of further Orders.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-19
ADM/A/1812/234
Approval is given for Master attendant and Second Assistant who recently joined HM Shipyard at Portsmouth to receive the same salary and housing allowance as their counterparts at Chatham.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-16
ADM/A/1812/196
Warrant appointing John Hutchins to be Boatswain of the CHARLOTTE Yacht in place of the former deceased. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-10-16
ADM/A/1812/190
The Commissioners for Victualling have informed the Navy Board that Mr Steventon has just returned from the Fleet but has not yet given them an account of this year's Expedition.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-12
ADM/A/1811/124
Warrant for the appointment of David Hartley to be Boatswain of the ANGLESEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/136
Warrant for the appointment of Paul Edwards to be Master Carpenter of the Pink HIND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/132
Warrant for the appointment of Anthony Roper to be Master Carpenter of the SOLEBAY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/146
Warrant for the appointment of John Beason to be Master Gunner of the DRAKE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/144
Warrant for the appointment of Ralph Milburn to be Master Gunner of the SOLEBAY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/140
Warrant for the appointment of John Symonds to be Master Carpenter of the SWAN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/156
We have ordered the SHEERNESS and JERSEY to protect the Herring Fishery at Yarmouth, and direct you to cause the Provisions aboard these ships to be completed to two months each at Yarmouth with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-14
ADM/A/1811/152
Warrant for the appointment of William Barnes to be Master Cook of the SEA HORSE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/85
Warrant for the appointment of David Griffith to be Boatswain of the GARLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/83
Warrant for the appointment of William Wall to be Master Carpenter of the VANGUARD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-10
ADM/A/1811/79
Upon consideration of your letter of the 8th inst; we direct you to cause the SYAM and BRISTOL to be fitted and accommodated for Hospital Ships and Storeships, if this can be done for both services.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-12
ADM/A/1811/105
Upon consideration of your letter today we direct you, notwithstanding any former Orders, to cause either the SYAM or BRISTOL, whichever you consider proper for this service, to be fitted as well for a Hospital as a Storeship, and that her Surgeon and crew be continued and furnished with Medicines,…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-12
ADM/A/1811/109
We are sending enclosed a Copy of a Petition in the name of the greatest part of the Shipwrights of England which has been sent to us, and we desire you to examine this and make a Report to this Board as soon as possible your opinion of what is fitting to be done for the benefit of their Majesties s…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-17
ADM/A/1811/166
Your letter of the14th inst; proposed the allowing of five more Men to the hired Ship BRISTOL, which is ordered to be fitted as a Storeship to go to the Mediterranean.
We direct this be allowed and that she be established with the Complement of forty five.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-19
ADM/A/1811/186
We direct you to cause the Wages due to Lieutenant Peters for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DOVER to be paid to such Person as shall be lawfully empowered to receive them, if there are no other objection than the want of his Captain's Certificate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-09-18
ADM/A/1811/180
We direct you forthwith to imprest to Mr Edward Whittaker, Solicitor for the affairs of the Army and Navy, the sum of three hundred pounds for his defraying the Charges of such business as he shall be employed on by Order of this Board.
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