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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/117
Vice Admiral Mitchell has informed us by his letter of August 30th last that the Brigantine SWIFT was thought to be lost in a storm on the 17th August.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-10 ADM/A/1837/131
We direct you to cause the BONAVENTURE, SEVERN and CROWN at Plymouth to be fitted and cleaned and victualled for two months, without obstructing the fitting and victualling of the Foreign Convoys at that Port.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-10 ADM/A/1837/129
We direct you on arrival of the ESSEX PRIZE at Sheerness to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-08 ADM/A/1837/103
Warrant for the appointment of John Turner to be Boatswain of the Fireship LIGHTNING.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/113
A warrant was given by Admiral Russell, dated May 9th 1995, for Mr Bradly Vyoll to be a Volunteer on board the Fireship CRESCENT.
We direct you to cause the usual allowance to be made to him during the time he served in that capacity.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-09 ADM/A/1837/107
We direct you to cause the SHEERNESS, on her arrival at Chatham, to be sheathed and fitted there for a voyage to the West Indies, and victualled for eight months of proper Species for that voyage for her middle complement of Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-08 ADM/A/1837/105
Warrant for the appointment of George Brewell to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessel MORTAR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-14 ADM/A/1837/162
Warrant for the appointment of James Brown to be Master Carpenter of the ANGLESEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-14 ADM/A/1837/158
In consideration of your letter of the 2nd inst; to our Secretary the GREYHOUND has been ordered to Deptford.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-15 ADM/A/1837/168
We direct you forthwith to give Orders for entering Men on all HM Ships designed for the Main Fleet for the next Summer Service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-11 ADM/A/1837/137
A Petition of Edmund Lowance, Carpenter of the DEVONSHIRE, to be considered for superannuation.
The Petition is referred for consideration and Report.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-07 ADM/A/1837/75
The MONCK having received damage in her late cruise, and being ordered to the Buoy of the Nore, we direct you to cause a Survey to be taken of her upon her arrival there, and give us an account of her defects, together with your opinion where it will be best to have her repaired, and how long it wil…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-07 ADM/A/1837/83
We direct you to cause HM Ships designed for the Main Fleet for the next Summers' Service to be furnished with Tenders in the same manner as to number and quality as they were last year, in order to their entering Men, and to give Orders for doing this.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-07 ADM/A/1837/87
Warrant for the appointment of Clement Hannam to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessel STAR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-22 ADM/A/1837/235
There were some time since delivered to your Board from the Officers of the two Marine Regiments, Lists of their respective Company's, and we direct you to cause the Lists to be Cast, and the Captains to be paid the Wages due to their Men for the year 1695.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-18 ADM/A/1837/214
The Plymouth Commissioner has informed us that there is a great lack of Provisions at Plymouth for Ships that are there to be victualled.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-21 ADM/A/1837/230
We directed you to consider and report to this Board what Prices are proper to allow to Pursers in the Fleet to the Seamen for Provisions of each Specie which they shall save from time to time out of their daily allowance, so they may be kept in the Fleet and not sold as formerly to Merchant ships o…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-23 ADM/A/1837/263
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Price to be Master Carpenter of the Fireship BLAZE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-24 ADM/A/1837/271
Upon the arrival of the ROEBUCK at Harwich we direct you to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-18 ADM/A/1837/206
Warrant for the appointment of Charles Bargus to be Master Carpenter of the Advice Boat MERCURY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-16 ADM/A/1837/186
We direct you to cause the Advice boat MERCURY upon her arrival at Plymouth to be cleaned there and put in a condition for the Sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-21 ADM/A/1819/190
Warrant appointing George Monrow to be Master Cook of the PENZANCE. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-20 ADM/A/1819/188
Warrant appointing Nicholas Paul to be Boatswain of the ESSEX Prize, in place of the former who has been moved to the FORESIGHT. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-21 ADM/A/1819/200
Acting on instructions the Navy Board has made out a Bill for Peter Gandy a French refugee who has served as a Midshipman Extraordinary aboard the DEFIANCE together with his servant for his pay from the time he was discharged to the time he joined the NEPTUNE.…