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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-30
ADM/A/1813/326
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-30
ADM/A/1813/322
1. Captain Wishart, Commander-in-Chief of ships in the Thames and Medway, has been ordered to turn over 30 men from the SWIFTSURE, at the Nore, into the DOVER, in the Downs. The men are to be paid their wages from the ships they are leaving.
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-29
ADM/A/1813/338
Warrant appointing Francis Emmet, to be Boatswain of the PRINCE OF ORANGE, Hired Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-30
ADM/A/1813/332
Warrant appointing John Shoales, to be Boatswain of the HENRIETTA, Yacht; his predecessor having been appointed to the 3rd Rate building at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-03
ADM/A/1814/13
The CHARLES GALLEY and the PRINCE GEORGE at the Buoy of the Nore are ordered on immediate service. We direct you to cause a supply of Provisions to be sent down to the Ships to complete their victualling, the former to two months, and the latter to three.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-04
ADM/A/1814/23
A Petition has been presented to this Board in the name of of the Pursers of their Majesties Ships at Chatham stating that at the last payment of these Ships their Coopers and Stewards Mates and the Cooks Mates were paid off with the Seamen, and desiring that they may be entered again.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-07
ADM/A/1814/68
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Cravat to be Boatswain of the KINGFISHER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-07
ADM/A/1814/64
Warrant for the appointment of William Rowe to be Master Gunner of the PEMBROKE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-07
ADM/A/1814/62
We direct you to cause Captain Gallway, late Lieutenant of the RUPERT, to be paid Wages as Commander of a fourth Rate for the time he commanded the ST. DAVID Hulk to Kinsale, taking care he does not receive Pay as Lieutenant of the RUPERT during this time.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/80
It appears by a Cetificate from Captain Thomas Smith, late Commander of the WILD Prize, that John Houlding was Warranted and acted as Boatswain of this Vessel from 31st January 1693 to the 18th June 1694.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-08
ADM/A/1814/74
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Wetherick to be Master Carpenter of the Bomb Vessel SALAMANDER.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/89
We direct you to give Orders for entering Men on Ships fitting out at Chatham for the next Year Service on the 20th of this month.
You are also to hire Tenders for better manning the Ships according to what was allowed last year to each Ship of their respective Rates.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/86
We direct you to forthwith set up and build as soon as possible eight new Bomb vessels, either in their Majesties' Yards or in the Merchants' Yards, by Contract according as you judge best for the service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/96
In pursuance of his Majesty's pleasure, signified by the Duke of Shrewsbury in his letter today, we direct you to cause five Vessels to carry Great Machines to be provided with all speed according to our former Orders, notwithstanding any directions to the contrary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/92
Letter concerning the Order in Council of 22nd February 1694 regarding an increase of Pay to the Commanders and other Officers of of their Majesties' Ships, and the General Printed Instructions annexed to each Commanders' Commission.
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)
1694-12-07
ADM/A/1814/58
We direct you to set up and build as soon as may be, either in their Majesties' Yards or in Merchants Yards, two fourth Rate Ships of 50 Guns each, of the same dimensions of those last ordered to be built in Mr Castle's Yard at Deptford, sending us an Estimate of the Charges.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-07
ADM/A/1814/56
It appears by a Certificate from Lord Berkeley, Colonel of the Second Marine Regiment, that Humphrey Stokes, Sergeant, and Henry Kitt, Sentinel, belonging to his Company now at Greenwich, were employed on shore from the 1st April 1694 to the 24th October following in raising Recruits for the Compan…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/104
We direct you to imprest to Mr Edward Burt, one of the Clerks belonging to our Secretary, the sum of three hundred pounds to enable him to defray the contingencies of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-11
ADM/A/1814/121
As requested by your letter to our Secretary yesterday we are sending a enclosed a Warrant for impresting Shipwrights and Caulkers for the Deptford yard, and inform you that the Persons employed in pressing are to take notice that this should not be done as heretofore but in the same manner as Sea…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-11
ADM/A/1814/113
The Marquess of Carmarthen has sent a List of the names of some Men belonging to the ROYAL WILLIAM who had several sums of money stopped from them at the late payment of her; also of others that will be in similar circumstances.…
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