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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-23 ADM/A/1836/208
The IPSWICH, DEFIANCE, CHARLES galley and VESUVIUS fireship, are ordered to be fitted for a voyage to the Canaries. You are directed to have the stores and provisions ordered for them immediately sent aboard and the ships put in condition for sea without a moment's loss of time.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-18 ADM/A/1836/172
Peter Tisdell, late Boatswain of the ESSEX, is to be appointed Boatswain of the REVENGE a new 2nd Rate building at Chatham. You are directed to enter him accordingly with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 18 November 1696.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-01 ADM/A/1801/3
Requiring that the various types of vessel that are to proceed to the Straits are to be provisioned with six months dry and two months wet supplies and that their stocks are to be kept topped up during their stay at Spithead.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-23 ADM/A/1836/222
Phineas Bowles is to be appointed Secretary of His Majesty's Fleet, both in war and peace, with the salary of £450 per annum for himself and clerks.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-01 ADM/A/1801/18
Warrant appointing John Williams, Boatswain of the ALBERMARLE, to be Boatswain of the SOVEREIGN in place of the former who has been moved to Chatham Yard. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-01 ADM/A/1801/16
Warrant appointing John Goodland, late Boatswain of the WINDSOR CASTLE, to be Boatswain of the ALBERMARLE in place of the former who has been moved to the SOVEREIGN. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-06 ADM/A/1801/65
The Privateer owners of the [BARON] Galley at Southampton are offering her for service in the Navy. The Board is instructed to survey her and to report on how many men and guns will be required for her to act as a warship.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-06 ADM/A/1801/61
Two seamen, Cornelius Campion and Robert Booth, are alleging embezzlement of stores and are offering to act in retrieving them. The Board is instructed to study their petition and to report their findings.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-08 ADM/A/1801/83
A report is required as to when individual First, Second, Third and Fourth Rates will be ready to leave the Yards, ready for service at sea next summer.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-07 ADM/A/1801/79
Warrant appointing William Willis to be Boatswain of the BON ADVENTURE. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-09 ADM/A/1801/91
The Board is summoned to appear before the King in a Cabinet Council meeting next Sunday afternoon in order to receive instructions regarding victualling, and to supply estimates of the sums of money required to fit out the fleet for service next year, together with schedules showing the phasing o…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-02 ADM/A/1801/24
The Third Rates ELIZABETH, BREDA, DREADNOUGHT, MONMOUTH and MONTAGUE have been ordered into various Royal and private yards on the Thames for survey and repair as soon as possible, and made ready for sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-02 ADM/A/1801/32
Due to the nature of her masts the HAMPSHIRE is very unbalanced. The Commander has opined that if they were to be shortened by two feet she would sail much better. Her masts are to be surveyed and shortened as judged necessary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-03 ADM/A/1801/40
The wages due to Edward Manning for service in the VIRGIN Prize are to be paid regardless of the lack of a certificate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-03 ADM/A/1801/42
Captain Dove of the PEARL Prize has reported that his ship has been damaged by bad weather. An extract of his letter is enclosed. The Board is to survey her and report on whether she may be repaired at Harwich where she now is.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-04 ADM/A/1801/51
The Squadron destined for the Mediterranean is to be supplied urgently with as much of the six months dry and two months wet provisions as can be obtained from Portsmouth, Plymouth and the surrounding areas.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-04 ADM/A/1801/49
The EXPEDITION now undocked at Chatham is to be readied for the sea and supplied with three months victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-06 ADM/A/1836/50
The Commissioners at Plymouth sent a messenger to London with directions for the Post Masters to provide him with two books and a guide, to be charged to the account of the General Post Office.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-27 ADM/A/1829/267
Warrant for the appointment of John Russell to be Master Carpenter of the new fifth Rate building at Cowes in the Isle of Wight.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-29 ADM/A/1829/285
We direct you to consider and give us an account, as near as you can judge, by what time a fitting quantity of Stores and Provisions may be got in readiness for such a Fleet of Ships as was lately in the Mediterranean with Sir George Rooke, and intended to be sent to him from here.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-27 ADM/A/1829/265
Mr Holmes is, by our late Commission, appointed Muster Master of the Red Squadron of HM Fleet. We direct you therefore to vacate the Commission granted by Admiral Russell to Mr Jordan in the Mediterranean.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-25 ADM/A/1829/259
We direct you to cause Captain Richard FitzPatrick to be paid as Captain of the SUSSEX and LANCASTER from the time that Men were first entered to serve on these Ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-22 ADM/A/1829/309
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Layton to be Purser of the new 4th Rate building at Blackwall.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-11 ADM/A/1836/82
You are directed to have the ST MALO hired ship at Plymouth, fitted there at the charge to her owners, for a voyage to Barbados, and to order her victualled for 8 months of proper specie for such a voyage for her middle complement of men, which will reduce her present number.