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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-19
ADM/A/1803/244
To pay Lieutenant Hawes the imprest money for preccuring men for the RESTORATION.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/201
Appoint John Collier, Carpenter the DISCOVERY, to be Master carpenter the VESUVIOUS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/203
Appoint Peter Pirdall, Maser gunner, the BASING GALLEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/205
Appoint Nicholas Torry, Boatswain, the JAMES GALLEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/195
Appoint Andrew Law, Cook, the BASING GALLEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/197
Appoint Thomas Ferrabee, Boatswain the ROYAL KATHERINE to be Boatswain, the LONDON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/199
Appoint Henry Chappell, Boatswain the RUPERT, to be Boatswain, the ROYAL KATHERINE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-17
ADM/A/1803/231
Appoint James Pybus, Boatswain, the ALDBURGH to be Boatswain the SWEEPSTAKES in the room of Thomas Wade removed to the ESSEX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/217
To allow the Officers and company of the HART Ketch lately taken by the French for their clothes.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/219
Lieutenant Thomas Legg to be entered on the CANTERBURY until the RUPERT enter men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/221
On arrival at Portsmouth the GREYHOUND to be refitted for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-01-16
ADM/A/1803/225
Captain Crow of the NORWICH, request his provisions despatched.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-16
ADM/A/1805/235
The Navy Board has bought the Prize captured by the DOVER and formerly named the BEAULIEU. The Admiralty informs the Navy Board that she is now to be called the DOVER'S PRIZE and established as a Fifth Rate with the same number of men and guns as the Fifth Rate last built.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-19
ADM/A/1802/171
Warrant for the appointment of James Boynton to be Purser of the new third Rate building at Bursleton
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-08
ADM/A/1802/334
The Victualling Commissioners have represented that they have in several years past over issued the proportions of Victualls declared for, which they think ought to be made good only of the Declarations for the next year.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-13
ADM/A/1802/115
We direct you to cause the hired Ship CORONATION to be forthwith fitted for Service in the West Indies (instead of the hired Ship BONAVENTURE), to be manned with her middle Complement of Men, and furnished with eight months Victuals proper for that Service, and that the BONAVENTURE be victualled fo…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-18
ADM/A/1802/161
We direct you to give orders to the Commissioners for Victualling that they send as soon as possible a fitting sum of money to Sir Francis Wheeler at Spithead for paying the men belonging to the Squadron under his command for their short allowance of Provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-04
ADM/A/1802/17
You have represented in your letter of November 24th that a Prize lately taken by the SOUTHAMPTON, called the JOLLY, is fitting for a small Sixth Rate and that she may carry fifty Men and ten Sakers in War at home, and forty men and ten in War abroad, and peace at home and abroad.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-15
ADM/A/1802/137
We direct you to settle a Pension on Walter Fry as a Superannuated Gunner of a 3rd Rate.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-18
ADM/A/1802/149
Warrant for the appointment of Jonathon Garrett, Master Gunner of the CROWN, to be Master Gunner of the new third Rate Ship building at Bursledon.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-02-28
ADM/A/1804/364
Warrant appointing James Palmer, Master Carpenter of the ELIZABETH, to be Master Carpenter of the St.MICHAEL in place of Richard Gunton who has been moved to the ROYAL WILLIAM. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-03-02
ADM/A/1805/14
Warrant appointing Richard Gunton, Master Carpenter of the St.MICHAEL, to be Master Carpenter of the ROYAL WILLIAM in place of William Keldridge who has been moved to the ROYAL SOVEREIGN. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-04
ADM/A/1802/25
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Cranaway, late Carpenter of the Fireship SPYDER, to be Master Carpenter of the new sixth Rate building at Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-12-04
ADM/A/1802/28A
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Haberdine, Master Gunner of the PLAY PRIZE, to be Master Gunner of the CAMBRIDGE.
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