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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-04 ADM/A/1864/43
Ordering compensation to be paid to the owners of the GABRIEL Machine Vessel off Dunkirk when the Captain was ordered by Lord Berkeley to slip his cable and move in towards the pier and both anchor and cable were lost.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-04 ADM/A/1864/45
Sir Cloudesley Shovell and Commissioner Willshaw are going to Portsmouth to survey the Docks accompanied by the Master Shipwright from Chatham and his Assistants. Mr Strong and Mr Beauchamp who are skilled in stonework and masonry will also assist.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-29 ADM/A/1860/293
Requiring five hundred pounds to be paid to Mr John Fawler Chief Clerk to Josiah Burchett for defraying the expenses of the Admiralty Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-04 ADM/A/1864/47
Enclosing a copy of a list of Stores required for the Squadron in the Straits. The Board is instructed to supplement it with any Stores not previously sent.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-29 ADM/A/1860/289
Continuing to prevaricate regarding the appointment of one particular individual Navy Board Commissioner as successor to Edmund Dummer and insisting that blanket coverage for the role be provided by all of the Seamen Commissioners on the Navy Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-06 ADM/A/1864/65
Authorising payment of Richard Terry's wages as Gunner in the ST ALBANS Prize despite the fact that he did not possess a Warrant due to his appointment having been made in Virginia where the ship sailed before the said Warrant could be delivered to him.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-10 ADM/A/1864/67
Acknowledging the Navy Board's recommendations regarding the removal of "Q's" and "R's" from the names of a number of Men and agreeing to their removal or reduction.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-04-15 ADM/A/1864/71
Agreeing to the lengthening of the EDGAR by the keel and authorising other improvements.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-02 ADM/A/1860/13
Giving approval for the erection of four boat houses on the West side of the Rope house at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-03 ADM/A/1860/23
Confirming a Warrant issued by Captain Valentine Bowles Commander of the SHEERNESS in the West Indies appointing Marmaduke Jenkins to be Master Cook of the SHEERNESS in place of John Hutchins deceased.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-03 ADM/A/1860/19
Captain Ormerod has invented a new means of weighing anchor. Instructions are given for the HAMPSHIRE to trial the device.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-02 ADM/A/1863/23
Giving the result of a Court Martial held aboard the DREADNOUGHT at Plymouth in which Second Lieutenant Covill Maine was fined two months wages for lewd conduct.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-03 ADM/A/1863/36
Ordering two months Provisions for the lowest Complement of Men of the BEDFORD Galley now in Longreach to be dispatched without delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-03 ADM/A/1863/38
Pumps invented by Robert Ledgingham are to be trialled in the SOUTHAMPTON. Orders are to be given for holes to be cut in her hull as well as apertures in her decks to facilitate the trials.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/329
Thomas Summers, Gunner of the MONMOUTH, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the new 2nd Rate building at Deptford. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 24 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-07 ADM/A/1839/327
The YARMOUTH, CANTERBURY, COVENTRY, DRAGON, FALMOUTH, GLOUCESTER, ROCHESTER, ROMNEY and ADVENTURE, have arrived in the Downes with the Turkey merchant ships and others from the Straits.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-20 ADM/A/1839/341
The Commissioner at Plymouth, in his letter of 16 February, has given an account of the condition of the new rope house and tarring house and also of the wet and dry docks.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/353
Joseph Saires, late Gunner of the Etna fireship, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the new 4th Rate building by Mr Wells at Rotherhithe. 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) 1697-02-25 ADM/A/1839/285
Commissioner St. Lo has advised us in his letter of 21 February, of great want of provisions at Plymouth and we send an extract of his letter. You are directed to give orders to the Commissioners of the Victualling to take care that provisions are provided at that port.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-25 ADM/A/1862/287
Our Secretary wrote to you on 22 February about the letter from Captain Braxton and Captain Hargreaves, asking to be reimbursed money they have paid to soldiers of their company that went to Newfoundland, under the command of Colonel Gibson, for their short allowance.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-25 ADM/A/1839/289
The DEPTFORD and the SMIRNA MERCHANT hired ship, at Yarmouth and being ordered convoy from there to Holland with several merchant ships in want of provisions, you are directed to have the ships furnished with provisions at Yarmouth with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-25 ADM/A/1839/295
Francis Baker is to be appointed Boatswain of the ST PAUL fireship, in place of the former removed for neglect of duty. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 25 February 1696/7.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-25 ADM/A/1839/293
Ruben Bennett, late Master Gunner of the CARLISLE, is to be appointed Master Gunner of the MONMOUTH. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 25 February 1696/7.