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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-07 ADM/A/1819/74
Warrant appointing Robert Niven to be Master Gunner of the DREADFUL Bomb Vessel. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-07 ADM/A/1819/72
Warrant appointing Thomas Coates, Boatswain of the GREYHOUND Bomb Vessel, to be Boatswain of the RUBY Prize. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-07 ADM/A/1819/70
Warrant appointing David Wilson to be Boatswain of the DREADFUL Bomb Vessel. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-07 ADM/A/1819/68
Thomas Launce is to be paid the usual allowance due to a Volunteer having served aboard the SHEERNESS under Captain James Launce.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-07 ADM/A/1819/66
Stressing the urgent need for provisions to be put aboard the MAIDSTONE at Hope, particularly as she is one of the vessels that is to accompany the King to Holland. One month's provisions are to be despatched by tomorrow morning.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-08 ADM/A/1819/78
Warrant appointing Daniel Sanders to be Purser of the ARCHANGEL Hired Ship. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-02 ADM/A/1819/11
Warrant appointing John Oliver to be Master Carpenter of the SERPENT Bomb Vessel. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-02 ADM/A/1819/15
The JERSEY, on arrival at Portsmouth, is to be cleaned and refitted; and supplied with ten weeks victuals for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-03 ADM/A/1819/21
Urgently requiring progress with ships fitting out in the Thames.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-03 ADM/A/1819/25
Requiring the JAMES to be hired as a Warship and established as a Fifth Rate of thirty guns. Details of armaments are given. She is to be fitted for service in the Channel and is to receive a crew of thirty Men together with three months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-06 ADM/A/1819/54
Jonas Hanway, Second Lieutenant of the ELIZABETH, has been found to have been involved in some irregular recruitment practices and is to be suspended.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-05-06 ADM/A/1819/52
A report is required on the state of readiness of Bomb Vessels, urging that maximum effort be made in completing them.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-05-04 ADM/A/1819/50
The PRUDENCE, on arrival at Portsmouth, is to be cleaned and refitted at the owner's expense and victualled for six months for a voyage to Newfoundland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-03 ADM/A/1819/29
The FORESIGHT at Portsmouth and the PORTLAND at Plymouth are to be cleaned at those places and victualled for ten weeks service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-04 ADM/A/1819/43
William Tindell and Thomas Crew have invented a new type of pump to replace chain pumps. Instructions are given for a prototype to be tried in the hold of the Hampton Court. An estimate of cost is requested.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-05-03 ADM/A/1819/37
Warrant appointing Thomas Painter to be Master Cook of the MAIDSTONE in place of the former who has been turned out of the ship. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, believed to be temporary Acting Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-01 ADM/A/1821/246
We direct you on the arrival of the SOLEBAY at Harwich to cause her to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service, and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-01 ADM/A/1821/250
We have sent Orders to Captain Fairborne to turn over Men from the Great Ships in the River Medway into the Machine Vessels.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/173
On arrival of the WEYMOUTH at Portsmouth we direct you to cause her to be cleaned and refitted for a voyage to the Straights, and supplied with three months Provisions for her highest complement of Men with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-25 ADM/A/1821/204
In pursuance of HM's pleasure signified to this Board by William Blathwayt, we direct you to pay Sir George Rooke the sum of eighty four pounds, eleven shillings and six pence, upon his producing vouchers to your Board that he has paid this sum by HM's Orders in Holland.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-25 ADM/A/1821/208
We direct you to cause William Flood, late Carpenter of the Bomb Vessel DREADFUL, and John Kilby, his Servant, to be entered into the Chatham Yard and employed there till such time as he can otherwise be provided for, in case there is a want of such Workmen in that Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-26 ADM/A/1821/216
We direct you to give Orders that the Victualling Ships which have the Provisions for the 3rd Rate Ships named in the margin, lately ordered to be victualled for the Straights, do continue in the Downs till further orders.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/181
We direct you to cause a twenty oared Boat to be built immediately at Portsmouth, to be carried to the Straights by Sir George Rooke, and to be furnished with Masts, Oars, Sails and other necessaries, and a silk Union flag to carry in her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/177
We direct you to cause the FORTUNE Pink at Spithead to be immediately refitted at Portsmouth and supplied with what Stores are needed to enable her to proceed to Sea.