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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-24 ADM/A/1820/191

1. The smack that was taken up to procure men for the HASTINGS is in the River at the Hermitage and, as she is no longer required, she is to be discharged.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-25 ADM/A/1820/195

Anthony Atkinson, Robert Milburne and John Ritchley, Shipwrights, are to be discharged from Chatham. John Sanderson, Josiah Saburne and William Briscoe are to be replace them.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-26 ADM/A/1820/205

Enclosing an extract from Lord Berkeley's letter in which he complains that the Wellboats attached to his squadron have not been properly repaired and are in an unseaworthy condition.
Whoever is responsible for this is to be punished.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-26 ADM/A/1820/203

William Farthing, residing at the Boar and Ragged Staff Inn, East Smithfield, is to be prosecuted for receiving the wages earned by Edward Templeman in the EXETER despite the latter having given no power authorising Farthing to do so. Templeman had authorised Samuel Bush to receive his wages.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-26 ADM/A/1820/201

Warrant appointing Michael Bates, to be Master Cook of the ROSE, Fireship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-26 ADM/A/1820/199

Warrant appointing William Barrett, late Master Carpenter, of the DUNKIRK, to be Master Carpenter of the NEWARK; his predecessor being deceased.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-20 ADM/A/1772/85

We are informed by the Cashier to the Treasurer of the Navy that appointed this week for the Navy is the sum of five thousand one hundred and thirty eight pounds seventeen shillings and nine pence, part of the appropriated Money by Act of Parliament for the service of the Navy.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-26 ADM/A/1820/215

Commanders of the Great Machine Vessels have hitherto been required to follow orders they receive from William Meesters. In future, Masters of the Small Machine Vessels are to do likewise.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-26 ADM/A/1842/310

We direct you to cause Captain Lyell, Commander of the WOOLWICH, to be furnished with a Tender for procuring Men to serve in the said Ship.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-26 ADM/A/1842/304

We have appointed Captain Basil Beaumont to command the Squadron which is to lie off Dunkirk. We direct you to cause him to be furnished with the Signal Colours usual in like cases, and a Top Light, taking receipts for the same from the proper Officers of the ESSEX, which Ship he will board.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-26 ADM/A/1842/306

Having received a letter from the Plymouth Commissioner in which he gives and account of the great want of Canvas at that Port for Ships fitting out there, we send you an extract of the letter, and direct you to cause a sufficient quantity to be furnished there.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-26 ADM/A/1842/302

We direct you to cause the YORK upon her arrival at Woolwich to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-26 ADM/A/1842/298

Warrant for the appointment of Robert Lightfoot to be Master Gunner of the CANTERBURY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-13 ADM/A/1772/61

You have represented by your letter of the 3rd inst; to our Secretary that the Smiths Shop in the Portsmouth Yard cannot contain so many Fires as the Service requires, and that the Works many times call for Iron works from thence faster than it can possibly be supplied, and therefore you think it c…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/232

Warrant for the appointment of James Willson to be Boatswain of the BASILISK.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-17 ADM/A/1842/228

Warrant for the appointment of Samuel Fox to be Master Carpenter of the CANTERBURY.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-17 ADM/A/1842/230

Warrant for the appointment of William Wood to be Boatswain of the ASSOCIATION.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-11 ADM/A/1772/51

We direct you to cause the FANFAN to be refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel, and furnished with three months victuals or as much as she can conveniently stow.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-11 ADM/A/1772/55

We direct you to cause the GREYHOUND (now at Gravesend) to be furnished with two months victuals for her complement of Men, and that all possible dispatch be made in sending the same on board her.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/242

Sometime since we directed you to cause one of the sixth Rates in the River to be payed with a new Composition invented by Mr Charles Ardesais, and he has informed us that following your directions he went to Deptford in order to do this with the HENRY Prize, but she had been payed before with ordi…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/236

John Sewers Boatswain, John Dodson Gunner, and James Burton Carpenter of the JOSEPH Fireship in the Downs, have irregularly signed a Paper and transmitted it to this Board, representing that the Ship is not in a condition for the Sea, for which we have ordered their being dismissed from their Employ…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-18 ADM/A/1842/238

Having ordered the MEDWAY to sail to Portsmouth or Plymouth to be refitted, we do hereby direct you upon her arrival at either of those places to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-16 ADM/A/1772/71

We are informed by your letter of the 11th inst; that the new Fireship building in this River by Mr Jonas Shish is designed to be launched on Saturday next.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-02-17 ADM/A/1772/77

We direct you to make allowance of Pay to Captain Pomeroy (who died of wounds received in the engagement with the French last Summer) as Captain of the RUPERT for the time he served in her, by virtue of an order of the Earl of Torrington, then Admiral of the Fleet, notwithstanding he did not have …