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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-08
ADM/A/1810/81
We direct you to cause the Advice Boat POST BOY to be cleaned at Dover and put into a condition for the sea.
We having ordered her Commander to to repair there once a month for the future in order to her being cleaned, you are also to cause the same to be done accordingly.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-20
ADM/A/1783/116
Elias Luny is to be appointed Master Gunner of the ST.MARTIN prize. You are to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 20 April 1692.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-08
ADM/A/1810/77
By his Majesty's Warrant this Board is directed to allow Sir George Rooke, now an Admiralty Commissioner, half Pay as Admiral of the Blue, according to the Rate of their Majesties' late Establishment, and that the said allowance shall be placed upon the the Ordinary Establishment of the Na…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-22
ADM/A/1783/120
We have considered your report in your letter of 20 April about Captain Bokenham.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-20
ADM/A/1783/106
Richard Chapman is to be appointed Boatswain of the new AFRICA, during her continuing in their Majesty's service. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 20 April 1692.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-20
ADM/A/1783/104
You are directed to have officers of the LEOPARD, lately returned from Cadiz, to be paid their wages and have the ship laid up to be converted to a hulk according to our former orders.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-25
ADM/A/1783/136
You are directed to look for hire of a fitting merchant ship to be employed at the Buoy of the Nore for lodging men procured for the fleet.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-25
ADM/A/1783/132
By her warrant, signet and sign manual [signature] dated 31 March 1692, Her Majesty has been pleased to grant Henry Killigrew a pension of £3 per day, to commence from the time when he was last paid as Admiral of the Blue and to be paid quarterly out of the ordinary establishment of the Navy.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-26
ADM/A/1783/140
We enclose a petition to the Earl of Danby, of several seamen of the WINDSOR CASTLE who were turned over to the VANGUARD. You are directed to consider this and report your opinion to this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-25
ADM/A/1783/128
In pursuance of Her Majesty's warrant under her signet and sign manual [signature] dated 22 April, you are directed to have all seamen having voluntarily entered themselves to serve this year, to be entered in pay from the time they listed themselves.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-19
ADM/A/1783/94
Christopher French is to be appointed Master Cook of the MARY galley in place of the former deceased. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 19 April 1692
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-19
ADM/A/1783/92
We have confirmed the warrant given to Richard Scarvill to be Boatswain of the LEOPARD, by Captain Mathew Aylmer of the RUPERT, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with an allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-18
ADM/A/1783/86
John Scortch is to be appointed Boatswain of the ETNA fireship, in place of the former who has deserted. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 18 April 1692.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1784/85
Petition of William Fox in which he claims that after serving in HM Navy for many years, chiefly as a Warrant Officer, he is now incapable of continuing in his present role due to his great age and is applying for superannuation.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-24
ADM/A/1810/247
Having ordered the Fleet in the Downs to be put in a condition for the Sea, we direct you to order Mr Stock that in case any of the Machines, Tow Ships, Bomb Vessels or Shallops need any repairs, he should give his upmost assistance in dispatching the same, and to furnish them with such Stores they …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-20
ADM/A/1810/196
Lord Berkeley, Admiral of the Blue, has informed us by his letter of the 18th inst; that there is no further occasion for the PETER Waterboat (now with him) this year. We direct you forthwith to let us know where you would advise her being ordered to be discharged or otherwise disposed of.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-09
ADM/A/1784/47
The SWALLOW has sunk at Kinsale. The Board asks whether there is any hope of raising her and for a report on progress.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-08
ADM/A/1784/41
The LEOPARD is ordered to Chatham to serve as a Hulk as she is too deep of draught to serve at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-21
ADM/A/1810/204
A Petition has been delivered to this Board praying the Wages of Henry Penning, late Lieutenant of the CHATHAM, which have not been paid for want of a Certificate from his Captain of the Performance of his Duty on board the said Ship..…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-09
ADM/A/1784/49
Requiring Captain [Bartholomew] Clements Commander of the AFRICA Hired ship, together with the ship's Company assembled for the LOYAL MERCHANT, to be entered on the books of the LOYAL MERCHANT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-22
ADM/A/1810/212
Warrant for the appointment of John Wilson to be Master Cook of the SALLY ROSE .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-17
ADM/A/1810/178
Your letter of the 15th to our Secretary opined that the new Yacht building in the Chatham Yard should be allowed the same complement of Men as is established for the FUBBS Yacht, namely forty Men in War at home and thirty in War abroad, and Peace at at home and abroad.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-17
ADM/A/1810/180
Upon consideration of your Report to this Board dated the 14th August concerning the Petition of David Bartlett, Master of the HUMBER, stating that he had a Warrant for the said Ship dated the 17th January 1693, and was employed as a Tender from the 14th February following, and praying Wages from t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-13
ADM/A/1784/75
Captain Browne Commander of the FALCON having reported that the sailing abilities of his ship have been severely compromised. An Order is given for her to be fitted with a new main mast, booms and spars.
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