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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-20 ADM/A/1835/213
The BURLINGTON, MARY galley, LYME and EXPERIMENT, being ordered to cruise on the coast of France, under the command of of Captain William Kerr who has been directed to send them by turns to Portsmouth to clean and victual.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-17 ADM/A/1831/134
The SWEEPSTAKES, MERMAID and WINCHELSEA are appointed to Convoy the Colliers to and from Newcastle.We direct you to give Orders that upon the arrival of the Ships at the Buoy of the Nore, the Provisions aboard them be immediately completed to ten weeks each, and that they be supplied from time to ti…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-16 ADM/A/1831/130
A Commission was granted by Captain Robert Wilmot, C- in- C of HM Ships in the West Indies, dated the 4th September 1695, for Mr Jeremiah Fownds to be second Lieutenant of the WINCHESTER.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-16 ADM/A/1835/183
Your letter of 13 October sending a report of the officers at Portsmouth about the CUMBERLAND whereby it is proposed that her tenderness may be cured without girdling, the chief reason being the ill stowage of the ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-16 ADM/A/1835/181
Robert Warren, Boatswain of the COMET bomb vessel, has been appointed Boatswain of the ROEBUCK in the room of the former deceased. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 16 October 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-17 ADM/A/1831/136
We direct you to cause the CENTURION and ESSEX Prize upon their arrival at Sheerness to be forthwith cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and each of them victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-13 ADM/A/1831/113
We direct you to cause the Provisions aboard each of the Bomb Vessels named in the margin, now at the Nore, to be completed to two months, and that they be furnished with Provisions from time to time as they spend thereon, so that when they sail from the Nore they may have full two months aboard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-14 ADM/A/1835/161
You are directed to have the SCARBOROUGH, upon arrival at Deptford, sheathed and fitted for a foreign voyage and her victualling completed to 4 months. You are to have her present number of men reduced to her middle complement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-15 ADM/A/1831/121
Warrant for the appointment of John Wooley to be Boatswain of the FOWEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-15 ADM/A/1831/115
Richard Lapthorne, late Master of the MILFORD, was sent to London in March last to give evidence for the King against some of the Officers of the said Ship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-15 ADM/A/1835/173
You are directed to have the NORFOLK, IPSWICH and RUSSELL, upon arrival at Woolwich, cleaned and refitted there, or in a merchant yard, for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-13 ADM/A/1835/141
You are directed to give us notice of when you would have the great ships at the Nore ordered up to Chatham for repairs. You are also to furnish Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who is going with a squadron to the Straits, with sufficient credits for £4,000.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-13 ADM/A/1835/143
You are directed to have the FLY brigantine, upon arrival at Sheerness, laid up there and fitted for next summer service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-10-12 ADM/A/1835/137
You are directed to give an account to this board every week from the several yards, the muster of the ships in ordinary there, officers and men. You are to have the provisions aboard the ESSEX prize, in the Nore, completed to 10 weeks.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-13 ADM/A/1831/102
Your letter of the 12th inst; to our Secretary sent to us a Copy of the Survey of the defects of the Fireship ETNA, and offered your opinion that it will be best to have her paid off and laid up in Ordinary at Plymouth. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-06-12 ADM/A/1831/96
We direct you to cause the Wages due to Captain George Byng for the time he served as first Captain of the BRITANNIA to be forthwith paid him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-05 ADM/A/1830/42
We herby direct you to cause the Tenders you have supplied to the RUBY PRIZE to be discharged by the Directions of this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-01 ADM/A/1830/1
Captain Warren Commander of the WINDSOR - Commander in Chief of the ships bound for the East Indies has complained about the badness of their bread as shown in the enclosed letter.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-04 ADM/A/1830/30
His Majesty's order in Council of the 30th of last month directs that the hammocks remaining with the Commissioner. Of Customs at Portsmouth be delivered to the Officer in charge of Recruiting now going to the Leeward Islands for use by the men on passage.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-05 ADM/A/1830/34
We direct you to sign the Bills for the pay due to the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell during the time he Commanded the Fleet from the date of his Commission 7th November 1693 and ending 28th of last month, the date of Sir George Rooke's Commission to be C in C of the Fleet; also you are to pay Mr.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-05 ADM/A/1830/36
Capt. Willshaw, one of the Members of your Board has in his note of the 1st. Inst. Informed us that since being abroad his affaires have deteriorated and requires a months leave to settle them. We direct you to give him a months leave.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-05 ADM/A/1830/38
We have received a complaint from William Maunder Gunners Mate of HMS ROYAL TRANSPORT against the Lieut. Of the ship. We send you a copy and desire one of your Board to examine into it when the ship returns to her moorings in the Thames, and give us an account of the matter of fact.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-04 ADM/A/1830/23
We desire and direct you to send orders to the Commander at Plymouth that as soon as the Foresight enters harbour to cause her to be refitted with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-05-04 ADM/A/1830/25
We hereby desire and direct you to cause HM Yacht ISABELLA to be cleaned and refitted. Captain Wyvell of HMS KENT has recommended his Boatswain David Hartley to be Boatswain of a Hulk. You are to enquire into his qualifications for the role and report back.