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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-10
ADM/A/1837/133
Warrant for the appointment of John Yeames to be Master Gunner of the SUN PRIZE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-10
ADM/A/1837/131
We direct you to cause the BONAVENTURE, SEVERN and CROWN at Plymouth to be fitted and cleaned and victualled for two months, without obstructing the fitting and victualling of the Foreign Convoys at that Port.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-10
ADM/A/1837/129
We direct you on arrival of the ESSEX PRIZE at Sheerness to cause her to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-08
ADM/A/1837/103
Warrant for the appointment of John Turner to be Boatswain of the Fireship LIGHTNING.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-09
ADM/A/1837/113
A warrant was given by Admiral Russell, dated May 9th 1995, for Mr Bradly Vyoll to be a Volunteer on board the Fireship CRESCENT.
We direct you to cause the usual allowance to be made to him during the time he served in that capacity.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-09
ADM/A/1837/109
We are sending you an extract of his Majesty's Order in Council , dated the 3rd December, relating to a Naval Officer or Officers in the Plantations, and the supplying of the Men of War which shall be appointed to attend on the same with fresh Provisions for the health of their Men, and direct …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-08
ADM/A/1837/105
Warrant for the appointment of George Brewell to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessel MORTAR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-14
ADM/A/1837/162
Warrant for the appointment of James Brown to be Master Carpenter of the ANGLESEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-14
ADM/A/1837/158
In consideration of your letter of the 2nd inst; to our Secretary the GREYHOUND has been ordered to Deptford.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-15
ADM/A/1837/172
We direct you to cause Richard Bond, Surgeon of the SUFFOLK, to be turned over into the EDGAR along with his Commander and his Men.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-11
ADM/A/1837/142
We direct you to cause the DUKE at Chatham to be fitted out for service in the Channel as one of the Ships of the Main Fleet, manned with her highest complement of Men, and victualled in the same manner as the other Ships of the Main Fleet.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-11
ADM/A/1837/137
A Petition of Edmund Lowance, Carpenter of the DEVONSHIRE, to be considered for superannuation.
The Petition is referred for consideration and Report.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-11-10
ADM/A/1837/135
Warrant for the appointment of John Meecham to be Boatswain of the SEAFORD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/77
At a Court Martial held on board the MONMOUTH on the 4th December 1696, Captain Minden, C-in-C of HM Ships in the Rivers Thames and Medway, President, Thomas Dobbins, Master of the DEFIANCE, was rendered incapable of serving as a Master in any of HM Ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/75
The MONCK having received damage in her late cruise, and being ordered to the Buoy of the Nore, we direct you to cause a Survey to be taken of her upon her arrival there, and give us an account of her defects, together with your opinion where it will be best to have her repaired, and how long it wil…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/83
We direct you to cause HM Ships designed for the Main Fleet for the next Summers' Service to be furnished with Tenders in the same manner as to number and quality as they were last year, in order to their entering Men, and to give Orders for doing this.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/81
As you have proposed in your letter of the 5th inst; we have ordered the SORLINGS to Deptford and the HAMPSHIRE to Woolwich, and direct you on their arrival there to cause them to be cleaned and refitted for Service in the Channel, their present complement of Men increased to the highest number, and…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/87
Warrant for the appointment of Clement Hannam to be Boatswain of the Bomb Vessel STAR.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-07
ADM/A/1837/85
Your letter of the 5th inst; has represented to us that the members of your Board who are Commissioners of the Registry are of the opinion that a Quarterly Account instead of a Monthly Account of the deductions made from the Seamen for the Greenwich Hospital will be more proper and easy for the Navy…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-22
ADM/A/1837/235
There were some time since delivered to your Board from the Officers of the two Marine Regiments, Lists of their respective Company's, and we direct you to cause the Lists to be Cast, and the Captains to be paid the Wages due to their Men for the year 1695.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-23
ADM/A/1837/253
Mr Edward Whitaker, Solicitor for the affairs of the Admiralty and Navy, has presented to this Board his Account of Disbursements between the 4th November 1695 and the 5th November 1696, amounting to the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty seven pounds, nineteen shillings and two pence.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-22
ADM/A/1837/251
Warrant for the appointment of Hezekial Stevens to be Master Gunner of the SEAFORD.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-19
ADM/A/1837/222
The HAMPSHIRE SORLINGS, which are to lie some time at the Buoy of the Nore, are in great need of Provisions. We direct that you give orders for them to be immediately supplied, and also the Vessels in the River taken up for pressing Men, without which they cannot sail. …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-12-19
ADM/A/1837/218
We direct you to cause the DUNWICH, upon her arrival at Plymouth, to be cleaned and refitted there for service in the Channel, and victualled for ten weeks, with all possible dispatch.
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