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Austen, Robert
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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/322
Give an account of the condition of the LIVELY prize taken by Captain Mees of the SANDWICH. The TRUE-LOVE, the GREYHOUND, the MARY ANNE Bomb vessels to be put into ordinary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-24
ADM/A/1828/320
Appoint John Delamere, Master Carpenter, of the new 5th Rate Building by Mr Ellis at Shoreham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/328
To cause the wages in the EXPEDITION of Lieutenant Abraham Rush, deceased, to be payed, notwithstanding the want of his journal.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-20
ADM/A/1861/198
Captain Whittaker, Commander of the Chatham at Plymouth, has informed us that he has about six weeks of West India Provisions on board, which not being of the same species with which other Ships in the harbour are victualled, the Men desire their return to the Victualling Office, or distributed to t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/338
Appoint Phillip Davis, Boatswain, of the ADVICE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-19
ADM/A/1861/192
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Hurst to be Master Cook of the DEPTFORD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-26
ADM/A/1828/344
Direct the SORBAY to be cleaned and refitted at Sheerness.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-25
ADM/A/1828/342
Make Mr. Codner an allowance as a Volunteer during the time he served aboard the TRIDENT PRIZE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-22
ADM/A/1828/292
Appoint John Knell, Boatswain, of the FAULKLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-22
ADM/A/1828/290
Appoint William Morris, Master Gunner, of the new 5th rate building by Mr Burgess at Shoreham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-23
ADM/A/1828/298
The QUINBOROUGH to be cleaned at Liverpool
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-03-23
ADM/A/1828/296
Appoint Edward Baker, Boatswain, of the MARIANA prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/49
Thomas Nicholls, late Carpenter of the SEAFLOWER hired ship, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the INTELLIGENCE brigantine. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-05
ADM/A/1839/47
We have confirmed the warrant given by Sir George Rooke, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to Joseph Bilboy, to be Master Gunner of the SOCIETY bomb vessel, in place of the former removed to the LYME.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-06
ADM/A/1839/61
The Commissioners of the Victualling in their letter of today, have asked for money to procure shipping to carry victuals for 2000 men for 4 months to the West Indies, and to purchase oil instead of butter and cheese.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-06
ADM/A/1839/57
We have received a letter from the Ordnance about the 11 coils of cordage, belonging to that office, seized some time since by officers of the Navy on board the SCARBOROUGH merchant ship. We enclose an extract of their letter.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-08
ADM/A/1862/69
Captain Thomas Bryan, formerly Commander of the FALCON which was taken by the enemy in the West Indies in May 1694, was lately tried at a court martial for the loss of the ship and acquitted. A copy of the trial is enclosed.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-01-14
ADM/A/1861/278
Warrant for the appointment of George Adney to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate building at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-01
ADM/A/1862/1
By our order of 12 October 1697, in pursuance of an order from the Lords Justices, we directed you to stop the pay of officers of the two Marine Regiments lately commanded by the Marquis of Carmarthen and Sir Cloudesley Shovell until they had given satisfaction to the Office of Ordnance for arms the…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-02
ADM/A/1839/11
You are directed to have Captain John Hartnoll, Commander of the LEWIS prize, to be furnished with a tender to enable him to procure men for the ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-04
ADM/A/1862/17
Admiral Aylmer has advised us that there will be a great want of topmasts for the 4th Rate ships and under of the squadron under his command in the Straits. You are directed to send a number of topmasts and other stores that you think necessary in merchant ships bound for Cadiz.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-04
ADM/A/1862/29
James Small, late Gunner's Mate of the ADVENTURE, has sent a petition stating that in 1694 he was ordered by this Board to attend to give evidence in town against some Irish prisoners.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-02-03
ADM/A/1839/27
You are directed to have the KINGSTON furnished with a tender for the better manning of the ship and to give orders for entering men on board her.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1699-02-04
ADM/A/1862/27
Your letter to our Secretary, sent a copy of a letter from the Master Shipwright at Plymouth proposing the stripping of the sheathing of the CHATHAM as it is very bad. You are directed to have this done and for to see that the ship has a thorough repair.
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