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Alexander, John Richard
Austen, Robert
Austin, Horatio Thomas
Bell, Richard Frederick
Birdwood, Field Marshal William Riddell
Bonner-Smith, David
Burridge, Richard
Captain Richard Woodget
Cary, Anthony
Christie, William Henry Mahoney
Collinson, Richard
Cornwallis, Charles
Cotten, Richard
Cunningham, Andrew Browne
Dawkins, Richard
Dewar, Kenneth Gilbert Balmain
Ellis, Richard
Foot, George Alfred
Grindall, Richard
Haddock, Richard
Hall Gower, Richard
Hamilton, Richard Vesey
Herbert, Thomas
Hildyard, Richard
Hinks, Arthur Robert
Howe, Richard
Howe, Richard, Admiral Of The Fleet, 1st Earl Howe, 1726-1799
Keats, Richard Goodwin
Keppel, Colin Richard
Lee, Thomas
Lickis, Thomas Richardson
Lord-Macquitty Collection
Lowther, John
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Merrony, Richard
Nicholson, Richard Lindsay
Oliphant, Laurence Richard
Oliver, Richard Aldworth
Oliver-Bellasis, Richard
Onslow, Richard
Parr, Richard
Petty Officer Richard Cotten
Pitcairn-Jones, Charles Gray
Pitcairn-Jones, Lewis John
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly
Poulden, Richard
Priestman, Henry
Purefoy, Richard Purefoy FitzGerald
Relf, Richard
Rich, Robert
Richard
Richards, Frederick William
Richardson, James
Richmond, Herbert William
Ross, James Clark
Russell, Edward
Southerne, James
Strachan, Richard John
Thomas & Richard Walker, Manufacturers & Merchants Of Manchester
Thursfield, James Richard
Tiddeman, Richard, Captain, Ca.1702-1762
Vaughan, John
Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Collinson
Wace, Oliver Richard
Webb, Richard
Williams, Richard Norris
Woodget, Richard
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Family correspondence, 1896-1945. (Manuscript)
1896-1933
THU/4
Letters between members of the Thursfield family and from friends, in the period between 1896 and 1945. See item level records.
Drawings made by Laurence Richard Oliphant as a cadet on HMS BRITANNIA, 1891-1893. (Manuscript)
1890-1893
OLP/4
Drawings made by Laurence Richard Oliphant as a cadet on the training ship HMS BRITANNIA, 1891-1893. Including drawings of engineering parts and an unfinished watercolour showing vessels on the River Dart.
Printed documents on Thomas Walker covering his trial and memoirs. (Manuscript)
1794-1820
WKR/1/3-4
Printed documents on Thomas Walker covering his trial and memoirs. 1794-1820
Logbooks of the ELIZABETH 1761-1762 (Manuscript)
1761 - 1761
TID/11
For more information see item level records.
A Journal kept by Sir Richard Haddock in the company of Sir Antony Deane. (Manuscript)
1677
JOD/305
The journal comprises nine pages beginning at London on 29 May 1677 and ending at Colchester on 19 June 1677. The content deals with a journey with Sir Antony Deane, then a Commissioner of the Victualling accounts in the Navy Board.…
Uncatalogued (O80): Papers relating to Captain Richard Poulden, principal agent of transports at Lisbon, 1814. (Manuscript)
1814
MSS/69/066
A list of transports employed by the British commissariat and Mr Sampayo for bringing grain and flour from the Mediterranean to Lisbon, signed by Captain Richard Poulden, principal agent of transports, 1814.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-16
ADM/A/1789/120
You are directed to have a survey taken of the ANTELOPE upon her arrival at Deptford, and to give us an account of her defects and in what time she may be refitted for sea.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-16
ADM/A/1789/118
You are directed to have the PRINCE OF ORANGE, hired ship, now in the Downs, supplied with 4 months victuals from Dover.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-16
ADM/A/1789/114
Phillip Austen, Boatswain of the MONCK, is to be appointed Boatswain of the ELIZABETH, in place of the former moved into the ST MICHAEL. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 16 November 1692.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-15
ADM/A/1789/110
The 3rd Rate ships CAPTAIN, SUFFOLK, HOPE, ESSEX, GRAFTON, HAMPTON COURT, BURFORD, RESTORATION and KENT, are ordered to Chatham to be refitted for next year's service. You are to have a survey taken of their defects and to have the work put in hand.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-12
ADM/A/1789/92
You are directed to have the Masters, Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House of Deptford Strand, to examine Lieutenant Thomas Hardy and Lieutenant James Jasson as to their capacities to be Masters of their Majesties' ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-07
ADM/A/1789/56
Francis Leatherman is to be appointed Master Gunner of the ASSISTANCE. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant. His warrant is to be dated 7 November 1692.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-08
ADM/A/1789/66
Your letter of 4 November, advised this Board that the two French privateers at Plymouth called the MERMAID and JOSEPH, taken by the RUPERT and DEVONSHIRE, were not fitting to be employed as men-of-war, but may be serviceable as fireships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-09
ADM/A/1789/72
We have confirmed a warrant given by Captain Ralph Wrenn, Commander-in-Chief of ships in the West Indies, dated 22 March 1692, for John Knell to be Boatswain of the MARY. You are 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)
1692-11-04
ADM/A/1789/34
We have confirmed a warrant given by Captain Ralph Wrenn, Commander-in-Chief of the squadron in the West Indies, dated 8 March 1692, for John Gilson to be Master Gunner of the MARY. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-04
ADM/A/1789/40
You advised us at your attendance to this Board, that Captain Boteler, Commander of the MARY, now refitting at Woolwich, had given tickets of leave to some of the ship's company for a longer time than was directed by our order of 4 May.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-04
ADM/A/1789/42
You are directed to have the SAPHIRE furnished with one month's victuals at Yarmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-05
ADM/A/1789/44
Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Rear Admiral of the Red, desires that on arrival of the DUKE at Chatham, before the seamen are dispersed, the officers and seamen (warrant officers excepted) may be turned over to the ROYAL WILLIAM. You are directed to have this done accordingly.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-03
ADM/A/1789/26
We are informed that the companies of the RUPERT and ADVENTURE, have not yet received the month's gratuity given by their Majesties to such men who were in the engagement with the French last summer. You are directed to have this paid to them at Plymouth where the ships are now refitting.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-03
ADM/A/1789/30
You are to give direction to the Master, Wardens and Assistants of trinity House o Deptford Strand, to examine Lieutenant Robert Stapleton as to his capacity of being Master of any of their Majesties' ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-03
ADM/A/1789/28
In pursuance of their Majesties' warrant of Privy Seal, dated 27 October, you are directed to have the fireships PELICAN, RICHARD and JOHN, NATHANIEL, SPEEDWELL and ROEBUCK, sunk at Sheerness, Harwich and Portsmouth, according to your proposal.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-04
ADM/A/1789/32
We have confirmed a warrant given by Captain Henry Boteler, Commander-in-Chief of the squadron in the West Indies, dated 5 April 1692, for Robert Nixon to be Boatswain of the ASSISTANCE. You are to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-29
ADM/A/1789/218
Captain Gillam, Commander of the ST ALBANS, having by his letter to this Board complained of a great delay in refitting his ship at Portsmouth, you are directed to make inquiry into the reason for this and report to us.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-11-29
ADM/A/1789/222
Are enclosing a copy of a paper sent to us from the Earl of Nottingham, concerning some ships at Lubeck and direct you to consider what is proposed in it and to report your opinion, particularly whether it is necessary to send a Shipwright to Lubeck to survey the ships.
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