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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-22
ADM/A/1815/231
George Young is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the KITCHEN bomb vessel in place of the former removed to the MILFORD. 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 22 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/226
Thomas Maine, late Master Gunner of the HAWKE fireship is to be appointed Master Gunner of the CHARLES fireship. 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 21 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-21
ADM/A/1815/225
List of 39 ships for the main fleet in summer 1695 commencing with the LONDON.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-22
ADM/A/1815/243
It is His Majesty's intention that 500 marine soldiers and the like number of land soldiers, be sent to Cadiz on board the men-of-war, bomb vessels and victuallers bound there.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-20
ADM/A/1815/241
You are directed to have the LONDON MERCHANT hospital ship at Spithead refitted for sea to attend the main fleet in the Channel for next summer. She is to furnished with cradles and supplied with surgeons and medicines and all other necessaries.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-22
ADM/A/1815/235
You are directed to have the wages due to Captain John Clements, late Commander of the PORTSMOUTH deceased, for the time he served as Lieutenant of the DUKE, to be paid, if there are no objections other than the want of his journals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-25
ADM/A/1815/254
John Scatcliff, Master Carpenter of the NORWICH and Elias Long, Carpenter of the PRINCE OF ORANGE, were sent aboard the OWNERS LOVE fireship to survey her defects, and were detained on board by bad weather, their ships being gone to Virginia.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-25
ADM/A/1815/252
You are directed to imprest Mr Edward Bush, one of the clerks to the Secretary, the sum of £300 to enable him to defray the contingencies of this office.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-23
ADM/A/1815/248
Richard Wynn, late Master Gunner of the GERMOON prize, to be Master Gunner of the MILFORD. 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 23 January 1695.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-23
ADM/A/1815/245
You are directed to have the 49 men, which pursuant to our directions were entered in the Chatham yard at the paying off of the great ships to serve as Riggers, to be discharged.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-11
ADM/A/1807/100
Appoint Paul Edwards, Master Carpenter, the MASTERLAND.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-11
ADM/A/1807/98
Appoint Anthony Roper, master Carpenter, the SAINT NICHOLAS.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-11
ADM/A/1807/94
Appoint Henry Newman, late boatswain, the PEMBROKE, to be Boatswain, the YARMOUTH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-11
ADM/A/1807/104
Nominate two or three Persons that have served as Masters who you judge fittingly qualified to be Master Attendant of Chatham Yard. Nominate some fitting person to be Clerke of the Cheque at Portsmouth Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-11
ADM/A/1807/92
Appoint Pheonix Boyer, Master Carpenter, the SOCIETY Bomb Vessel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-10
ADM/A/1807/88
Allow the executors of Dr Butts his wages for his service as physician of the Blue Squadron.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-05-10
ADM/A/1807/86
The FLY advice boat to be fitted with a suit of sails at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-30
ADM/A/1815/300
You are directed to have the ROEBUCK and HAWKE fireships, the former at Sheerness and the other at Portsmouth, to be victualled for 2 months Channel service .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-30
ADM/A/1815/314
Captain Abraham Potter, Master Attendant at Sheerness, by reason of age and infirmities is incapable of officiating in his employment.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-30
ADM/A/1815/310
Lord Berkeley in his letter of today, advises us that by reason of the frost the ships at Blackstakes are in great want of provisions. We send you a copy of his letter and direct you to take immediate care that the ships are supplied.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-30
ADM/A/1815/308
Captain Philip Dawes late Commander of the FALCON in February 1693, being dismissed from the employment of the Governor of Jamaica, took passage for England in a merchant ship of London the HENRY AND WILLIAM.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-31
ADM/A/1815/320
We have received a letter form Captain Mighells, Commander of the OWNERS LOVE fireship at Falmouth, advising us that he has put in there the ship being so leaky that she cannot keep the sea. A copy of the survey of her defects is enclosed.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-31
ADM/A/1815/318
Your letter of 28 January advised us that of the 49 Riggers to be discharged from Chatham, 33 are accordingly discharged, but though Riggers were ordered to Harwich to assist in rigging the YARMOUTH they had sailed before your orders were to hand.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-31
ADM/A/1815/316
Mr Joseph Hogbin was appointed as a Volunteer on 3 August 1692 on board the MONCK, under the command of Captain Stafford Fairbrother by the Rt. Hon. Edward Russell, Admiral of the Fleet. You are directed to make the usual allowance for the time he served on board.
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