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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-22 ADM/A/1823/269
An Order requiring the sixteen ships accompanying Sir George Rooke to the Straits amongst which were the QUEEN, ROYAL WILLIAM and NEPTUNE to be supplied with fresh food twice a week during their stay at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-21 ADM/A/1787/182
Warrant appointing John Wren, Purser of the ST ALBANS, to be Purser of the WINSOR CASTLE in place of Christopher Reyner who has been Court Martialled and dismissed. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-21 ADM/A/1787/180
Confirming a Warrant issued by Captain Henry Boteler Commander of the MARY appointing William Simons to be Master Cook of the ST PAUL Fireship. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-20 ADM/A/1823/265
Warrant appointing Mathew Allen to be Boatswain of the SWIFTSURE in place of the former who has been removed. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-21 ADM/A/1787/178
Petition of Richard Ball in which he claims that due to age and decayed teeth he has been obliged to buy his own special food, is much debilitated and can no longer attend to his duties and is applying for superannuation. On the reverse is an instruction to the Navy Board to supply an opinion.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-20 ADM/A/1823/261
Requiring the DEFIANCE and PENDENNIS to be provided with Tenders.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-20 ADM/A/1823/263
Ordering the DEFIANCE to be manned with her Highest Complement of Men for service in the Channel, and the FRIENDLY SOCIETY at the Nore is to have her Provisions urgently made up to three months as she is about to depart for Hamburg.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/236
Edward Parsons, Porter of the Back Gate at Deptford Yard, has been instrumental in exposing some embezzlement. He suggests that he has a son who is available to work in the Yard. His proposal is accepted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/238
Captain Fairfax, Commander of the NEWARK, has found his Surgeon to be incompetent. The Surgeon is to be discharged and replaced by Mr Forbes, formerly of the BONAVENTURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/234
The ORFORD, Sixth Rate, is almost ready to be launched at Shoreham with the same number of Men and number and nature of guns as the JERSEY. She is to be fitted out for service in the Channel with the highest Complement of Men and victualled for ten weeks and added to the List of the Royal Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-22 ADM/A/1787/210
Authorising the payment of the claims made by Elisabeth Johnson in her Petition regarding the death of her husband Captain Thomas Johnson Commander of the SWAN whose Books and Papers had been deposited with a Mr Storton in Jamaica and had been lost in an earth quake.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/230
The Bomb Vessels GREYHOUND, MARY ANNE, THUNDER, TRUELOVE, BASILISK and COMET have been ordered to Woolwich, and the FURNACE to Deptford all for laying up and paying off.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-22 ADM/A/1787/208
Requiring the upper works of the HENRIETTA Wreck at Plymouth to be reduced as proposed by the Officers there; and requiring the CHATHAM in the Downs to be supplied with cables and an anchor.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-22 ADM/A/1787/206
Directing the SMYRNA MERCHANT Hired ship to be urgently refitted by her owners for service in the Channel and supplied with four months Victuals; and requiring the Bounty granted by the Queen to the Crew of the FALCON to be paid forthwith.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-19 ADM/A/1823/249
Some Carpenter's Stores have been found if in the Gunner's cabin of the CAPTAIN after Officers at Woolwich had surveyed the Carpenter's Stores. The Carpenter is ordered to be suspended.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-09-18 ADM/A/1823/240
Warrant appointing Richard Sanders to be Master Gunner of the MERMAID in place of the former who has been promoted. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-09-20 ADM/A/1787/195
Copy of an Opinion by the Admiralty in which they propose that in order to overcome manning problems during the coming Spring the Capital ships should be kept in pay over the Winter, with their Men taking leave on an alternating basis - as previously suggested - and proposing that the Crew's of…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-07 ADM/A/1778/39
Confirming a Warrant issued by Sir Edward Russell dated twenty-eighth August 1691 appointing Robert Kelsy Boatswain of the GREYHOUND. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-07 ADM/A/1778/41
Confirming a Warrant issued by Sir Edward Russell dated twenty-eighth August 1691 appointing Richard Jones Boatswain of the CHESTER. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-13 ADM/A/1861/147
A list of decisions on the petitions submitted for taking off Q's and R's.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-01-13 ADM/A/1861/145
A list of decisions on the Petitions submitted for taking off Q's and R's.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-06 ADM/A/1778/27
Ordering the release of subsistence money for the two Marine Regiments while on shore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-11-06 ADM/A/1778/29
Ordering the lifting of the stop put on the wages of Lieutenant Edward Poole, one of the Lieutenants of the ALBEMARLE, when engaged in bringing coal from Newcastle in a ketch when also required to press Men by Sir Francis Wheeler.