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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-06 ADM/A/1816/48
An approved list showing the numbers of Marines and Soldiers who are to be distributed among twenty named ships destined for the Straits, including fifteen victualling ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-08 ADM/A/1816/66
A vessel is to be hired in the Thames to assist the HASTINGS in assembling a crew.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-05-14 ADM/A/1807/148
Give directions to the Master Wardens & Assistants of Trinty House at Deptford Strand to examine Mr John Sole, the DARTMOUTH, for Master.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-07 ADM/A/1816/62
Captain Allen of the SAUDADOES Prize which is cruising off Jersey and Guernsey has hired a Smack for carrying an Express from Jersey to Southampton. Instructions are given for him to be reimbursed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-07 ADM/A/1816/60
Captains Leije van Leeuwen and Steyn of the Dutch Men-of-War WOLFF and DIAMANTEN are to be supplied with two fourteen inch cables and one seventeen inch cable respectively, from HM Stores at Portsmouth. The cables are either to be returned or paid for in cash.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-02 ADM/A/1816/13
Countermanding previous instructions concerning victualling the GERMOON Prize at Plymouth and restricting her supply to one month only; and instructing that when she returns to duty after leaving Portsmouth following cleaning she is to be similarly restricted to one month supply only of victuals.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-04 ADM/A/1816/23
Informing that a complete list of the Royal Navy is to be urgently supplied to Parliament. Also so required is a report showing when ships belonging to the Mediterranean Fleet received victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-05 ADM/A/1816/36
Joachim Fogh having been appointed by Admiral Russell in 1692 as a Volunteer serving under Captain Francis Wivell on the CENTURIAN, instructions are given that he should receive the usual allowances.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-05 ADM/A/1816/32
Letter supplementing the letter sent yesterday enclosing a list of ships sent to the Straits in which a number of other ships listed in the margin are described as having gone to or returned from the Straits and enquiring when they were last victualled.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-04 ADM/A/1816/28
Warrant appointing Thomas Rounsevall to be Master Gunner of the St. PAUL Fireship. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-06 ADM/A/1816/42
Vice Admiral Hopson is to be paid for a period of service from June to October 1694 when he struck his flag .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-05 ADM/A/1816/38
Thomas Pinke having been appointed by Admiral Russell in 1692 as a Volunteer serving under Captain Richard Edwards on the GREENWICH, instructions are given that he should receive the usual allowances.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-12-14 ADM/A/1814/443
Warrant for the appointment of William Moore to be Master Cook of the CROWN.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-10 ADM/A/1815/94
Captain Barber, Commander of the PRINCE GEORGE hired ship, has advised by his letter of 7 January that he has but 12 days of provisions, and there are several Scotch officers and others aboard who are to go to Scotland and thence to Ostend.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-14 ADM/A/1815/146
Luke Husson is to be appointed Master Cook of the WREN pink. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 14 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-15 ADM/A/1815/160
William Onslow has petitioned this Board setting forth that he was wounded in the PRUDENCE in 1692 and has been in St Bartholomew Hospital ever since. By reason of his lameness he was unable to attend the payment of the PRUDENCE and has lost his call.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-15 ADM/A/1815/156
By our order of 20 November 1694, you were directed to sign bills on the Treasurer of the Navy for pay due to Vice Admiral Aylmer, Rear Admiral Mitchell and Rear Admiral Nevill until Michaelmas last.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-18 ADM/A/1815/175
You are directed to have the MAIDSTONE at Portsmouth cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-18 ADM/A/1815/173
Thomas Hopronn was appointed Commander in Chief of His Majesty's ships in the Northern Seas by commission from this Board on 13 June 1694, and empowered to wear a union flag at the fore topmast.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-18 ADM/A/1815/171
Captain Wylde, Commander of the new ship at Woolwich the LINCOLN, has requested a tender so that he may procure men for the ship. You are directed to furnish him with a vessel proper for that service and there is now a vessel in the Thames the BETTY which has been appointed to attend the LINCOLN.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-17 ADM/A/1815/169
Several seamen who have been discharged have since entered themselves to serve as riggers in the dockyards. You are directed to give an account to this Board what numbers of those riggers last entered as such can be spared from the yards for the service and to give this report by 6 February.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-16 ADM/A/1815/167
Your letter of 14 January advised us that if the 12 Dutch men-of-war now at Spithead are to be cleaned, it will be best to order them to Portsmouth and Plymouth as the officers at Chatham are fully employed with the ships coming in.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-10 ADM/A/1815/98
We have ordered 60 of the Plymouth men to be put aboard the HAMPTON COURT upon her arrival at Spithead, to assist in bringing her from Portsmouth to the Buoy of the Nore. You are directed to allow the men conduct money from Sheerness to Portsmouth, they being to return to their own ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-01-14 ADM/A/1815/134
You advised our Secretary that the 40 men sent from Nore to Harwich to assist in rigging and fitting the YARMOUTH were not qualified for this service. You are directed to have a sufficient number of riggers sent down to Harwich from such yards where they can be best spared.