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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-15 ADM/A/1798/144
We send herewith a copy of a letter from Captain George StLo, concerning the ADVENTURE prize, employed in pressing men at Plymouth, and desire you to make enquiry and to report to this Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-24 ADM/A/1832/234
Your letter of 22 July advised us that the FOUDROYANT and prize for 1695 (which we have named the THUNDERBOLT prize), may the same number of men and number and nature of guns as the new 5th Rate lately built and now building for His Majesty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-21 ADM/A/1782/176
Wanting to know the best way of obtaining a small number of vessels to serve as Advice Boats. The vessels must be good sailers and suitable for that service. The GERMOON Prize at Plymouth has already been fitted as an Advice Boat, while others are to be procured by building, purchasing or hiring.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-21 ADM/A/1782/174
Warrant appointing John Clarke to be Boatswain of the SUDADOES in place of the former who has died. Countersigned by James Southerne, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-14 ADM/A/1798/130
As soon as the DOVER arrives at Portsmouth, you are directed to have her Commander and company turned over to the WEYMOUTH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-14 ADM/A/1798/132
Your letter of 11 August gave us particulars of the Instructions which Captain Roach did not comply with during the time he commanded the CHARLES galley. Having determined to forgive his neglect, you are directed to pay the wages due to him for his service in the CHARLES.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-23 ADM/A/1782/196
Requiring Men pressed for service in the DUNKIRK to be held aboard the Hospital ship at the Nore.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-23 ADM/A/1782/186
Ordering a number of Men from the FALCON who were Volunteers under Captain Ward her late Commander to be turned over into the DUNKIRK.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-23 ADM/A/1782/192
Ordering the VULCAN and WOOLF to be cleaned at Sheerness and victualled for three months for service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-23 ADM/A/1782/190
Requiring a number of ships at present in the Thames to be cleaned and for their whole Complement of men entered in them. The list includes the OWNER'S LOVE, HUNTER, BLAZE, HALF MOON, THOMAS and ELIZABETH, SPEEDWELL, VESUVIUS, and CADIZ MERCHANT.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-18 ADM/A/1782/156
Clearance is given for Gunner John [Goure] to leave the BRISTOL which is currently in dock for repair in order to join Admiral Russell in the BRITANNIA at the Admiral's request.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-30 ADM/A/1785/280
In your letter of the 29th inst; you have offered it as your opinion that the number of Men and number and nature of Ordnance hereafter mentioned are fitting to be established on the hired Ships SMYRNA FACTOR, WARRINGTON and UNITY as follows.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-13 ADM/A/1785/284
We direct you to cause the Yacht KITCHEN, in the present service for which she is ordered, to be allowed thirty Men and eight Guns according your opinion in your letter of the 12th inst; and also that the PRINCESS ANN, which is hired to serve as a Man of War of the 4th Rate, be allowed two hundred M…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-01 ADM/A/1785/282
We direct you to cause the Yacht KITCHEN to be forthwith fitted for a Bomb vessel for Channel service, in such manner as Captain Phillips shall advise, and furnished with three momths victuals or as much as she can conveniently stow, with all possible dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-21 ADM/A/1785/288
We are informed by your letter of of yesterday to our Secretary that having received advice from the Portsmouth Commissioner that most of the Shallops sent there from this River received damage in their passage, and that he had received directions from the Duke of Leinster to repair them, and also t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-14 ADM/A/1785/286
We direct you to cause the sum of fifty pounds to be immediately imprest and paid to Captain John Benbow, Master Attendant of the Deptford Yard, to enable him to defray the Contingencies in fitting and carrying the Bomb Vessel to Portsmouth
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-29 ADM/A/1785/266
We do approve of what you propose in your letter of the 25th inst; for the Wages to be allowed for the Masters of their Majesties Ships of the 6th Rate, namely three pounds six shillings a month, and we direct you to cause the said Wages to be established for those Officers accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/122
William Scott is to be appointed Purser of the ENGLAND frigate. 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 12 August 1693.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-08-12 ADM/A/1798/118
Captain Jackson, Commander of the SMYRNA MERCHANT hired ship, advises us that the ship will be ready to go to Longreach by 15 August, but is in want of men. You are directed to have her furnished with men from the Ordinary at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-21 ADM/A/1832/209
Your letter of 17 July advised us that the JOSIAH storeship's defects are so many that if taken into the dock at Plymouth she will hinder the cleaning of cruisers and other ships, and therefore you think it adviseable that she should be ordered into the Thames to be refitted, but only to have s…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-20 ADM/A/1832/201
You are directed to have the MARIANA prize at Portsmouth, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel, and victualled for 10 weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-22 ADM/A/1832/219
Upon consideration of your letter of 21 July, you are directed to have the 10 men added to the KATHERINE yacht's complement when she went to the Straits discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-07-22 ADM/A/1832/217
A petition has been presented to this Board setting forth that Edward Deacon has been Surgeon of several ships this past 7 years, and for 4 years of that time in the PRUDENCE, where he continued until discharged the service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-07-22 ADM/A/1785/212
We direct you to cause the DUNKIRK upon her arrival at Portsmouth to be forthwith surveyed and an account sent us if she can be fitted for service in the West Indies, and in what time she can be got ready.