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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-09-18
ADM/A/1823/232
Granting Henry Carter, Surgeon, a Pension.
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)
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)
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)
1696-09-05
ADM/A/1834/78
We direct you to Imprest unto Mr John Fawler, the Chief Clerk belonging to our Secretary, the sum of five hundred pounds for his defraying the Contingency Charges of this Office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-07
ADM/A/1834/82
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Parsons to be Gunner of the ROSE Guard Ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-07
ADM/A/1834/80
Warrant for the appointment of John Strutton to be Master Carpenter of the SHREWSBURY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-04
ADM/A/1834/52
We direct you to cause the Fireship HUNTER at Woolwich to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-04
ADM/A/1834/38
Your letter of the 4th inst; to our Secretary informed us that the new fifth Rate Ship FEVERSHAM, building at Shoreham by Mr Ellis, may be ready to launch the next Spring.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-02
ADM/A/1834/30
Warrant for the appointment of Arthur Allen to be Master Gunner of the VESUVIUS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-02
ADM/A/1834/28
We have considered your letter of the 28th past to our Secretary giving an account that upon your receipt of Orders for fitting to Sea the ESSEX, RUPERT, WARSPIGHT, EAGLE, BREDA, YORK and PLYMOUTH, Masters and Surgeons were appointed to them as usual.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-02
ADM/A/1834/32
The SHREWSBURY, NEWARK, CHICHESTER, and RESTORATION at Spithead, being suddenly designed for Sea, we direct you to cause them to be fitted there and put into a condition for Channel service with all dispatch, and their victualling completed to two months or ten weeks each.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-03
ADM/A/1834/44
Vice Admiral Aylmer has been ordered to cause a careful survey to be taken of the Hulls of the first and second Rates and of the old Gun Ship at Spithead, in order that we may better know which of them are in the best condition to continue there this Winter.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/16
Having ordered the MONTAGUE to sail to Woolwich we direct you, upon her arrival there, to cause her to be laid up and paid off, and that her Repairs be taken in hand and dispatched as soon as may be.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-24
ADM/A/1784/180
Requiring that William Burrell late Boatswain of the GREENWICH who lost a leg in an action with the enemy be paid a full year's pay as ordered by Court Martial.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/14
We direct you to cause the Brigantine SPY upon her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-02
ADM/A/1834/26
Having ordered the VANGUARD and ROYAL KATHERINE to proceed to Chatham to be refitted, we direct you upon their arrival there to cause their repairs to be taken in hand and the Ships put into condition for next Summer's service at Sea with all dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/168
Requiring the DOVER to be surveyed at the NORE following her running aground at Gravelines together with a recommendation as to which Yard she is to be sent for repair.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/166
Very urgently requiring the MARY Yacht to cleaned and refitted.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/164
Very urgently requiring the PEARL to be refitted for service in the Channel and supplied with three months Victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-23
ADM/A/1784/162
Requiring that the Commissioners for Victualling be instructed to order their Agent at Plymouth to make the CRESCENT Prize available to Commissioner Greenhill to assist in raising the wreck of the HENRIETTA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/20
We have already directed that the Ships and Vessels bound for foreign voyages shall be victualled for four months dry and three months wet Provisions for their highest complement of Men at whole allowance .…
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