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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-02 ADM/A/1784/7
Warrant appointing Thomas Bulbeck, late Master Carpenter of the HOPEWELL Fireship, to be Master Carpenter of the new Fourth Rate building at Chatham. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-02 ADM/A/1784/5
Order covering the award of medals and chains to various seafarers for valour in saving their ships from being taken by the French. The ships named are the TRYALL of London, the FRIENDS ADVENTURE from Topsham and the ROSE of Chester.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-01 ADM/A/1784/3
Wanting to know how many French Prizes not disposed off are still at Plymouth and how many of them could be converted to Fireships. An Estimate of the cost is also required.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-06 ADM/A/1784/27
Authorising a payment to be made to the Owners of the ENQUIRY Hired Sloop taken by the French and bought back.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-09 ADM/A/1777/62
In your letter of the 6th inst; you informed us that the business of the Navy at Plymouth has increased so much that it is necessary that the Company of the Hulk there should be increased to the number of thirty. We direct you to cause this increase accordingly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-09 ADM/A/1777/64
We direct you to make such allowance to the Men that belonged to the CONSTANT WARWICK and the TALBOTT Ketch, lately taken by the French, for the loss of their Clothes, as allowed by the Practise of the Navy in like cases.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-29 ADM/A/1860/293
Requiring five hundred pounds to be paid to Mr John Fawler Chief Clerk to Josiah Burchett for defraying the expenses of the Admiralty Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-29 ADM/A/1860/289
Continuing to prevaricate regarding the appointment of one particular individual Navy Board Commissioner as successor to Edmund Dummer and insisting that blanket coverage for the role be provided by all of the Seamen Commissioners on the Navy Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-28 ADM/A/1860/287
The Ordnance Store at Chatham has run out of space to store ship's gun's carriages. Permission is given for surplus carriages to be stored vessels in Ordinary as is the practice at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-12 ADM/A/1777/78
We direct you to send to this Board an account of the length of the Low Yards, the weight of the Anchors and size of the Cables of the several Ships named in the margin.
Twelve Ships named, commencing with the DEPTFORD.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-12 ADM/A/1777/81
Mr Dummer, Assistant to the Surveyor of the Navy, has informed us that Thomas Love, Boatswain of the RUBY Hulk, and Humphrey Scott, Shipwright, a Quarter Man in Portsmouth Yard, did take extraordinary pains both night and day in the late work of weighing the ST DAVID, for which they deserve a reward…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-13 ADM/A/1777/85
Warrant for the appointment of John Penn to be Boatswain of ST ALBANS Prize.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-10-12 ADM/A/1777/76
Captain Meese, late Commander of the EXETER, has applied to this Board to be cleared of the sum of forty five pounds which was imprested to him for the charges of manning his Ship, alleging that by the loss of his Papers at her blowing up he is unable to give any account of the laying out of the sai…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-02 ADM/A/1860/13
Giving approval for the erection of four boat houses on the West side of the Rope house at Plymouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-03 ADM/A/1860/23
Confirming a Warrant issued by Captain Valentine Bowles Commander of the SHEERNESS in the West Indies appointing Marmaduke Jenkins to be Master Cook of the SHEERNESS in place of John Hutchins deceased.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1698-12-03 ADM/A/1860/19
Captain Ormerod has invented a new means of weighing anchor. Instructions are given for the HAMPSHIRE to trial the device.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-02 ADM/A/1863/23
Giving the result of a Court Martial held aboard the DREADNOUGHT at Plymouth in which Second Lieutenant Covill Maine was fined two months wages for lewd conduct.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-04-20 ADM/A/1774/222
Granting a Pension to Phillip White, late Gunner of the LONDON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-03 ADM/A/1863/36
Ordering two months Provisions for the lowest Complement of Men of the BEDFORD Galley now in Longreach to be dispatched without delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-03-03 ADM/A/1863/38
Pumps invented by Robert Ledgingham are to be trialled in the SOUTHAMPTON. Orders are to be given for holes to be cut in her hull as well as apertures in her decks to facilitate the trials.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-05-04 ADM/A/1774/246
Issuing instructions for funds to be kept ready for paying the Men of the Fleet short allowance money, provided their Admiral agrees; and requiring the Commissioners for Victualling to be given credit to cover their attending the Fleet on its arrival on the coast for purchasing supplies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-04-29 ADM/A/1774/192
Warrant appointing Joseph Pittock to be Master Carpenter of the GRIFFIN Fireship in place of the former who has drowned. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-04-09 ADM/A/1774/198
Warrant appointing Anthony Allin to be Master Carver for HM yard at Plymouth. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.