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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-11 ADM/A/1862/83

Captain Laton, Commander of the FLY brigantine, has informed us that in the late storm he so feared for the security of the vessel that he had the main mast cut way which caused the loss of her mizzen mast.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-09 ADM/A/1839/99

The DEPTFORD has been ordered from the Downes to Sheerness to be fitted for Channel service. You are directed to have this done and completed as soon as possible and that the provisions on board be made up to 10 weeks.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-10 ADM/A/1839/105

John Almeadow is to be appointed Boatswain of the BLAST bomb vessel. 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 10 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-13 ADM/A/1862/103

Your letters of 31 January and 3 February advised us that you had perused the petitions about Qs and Rs and sent us the state of each man's case. The Qs and Rs on Samuel Hake and 22 others you advised should be taken off.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-13 ADM/A/1862/105

Richard Boake, late Carpenter of the SOUTHSEA CASTLE, is to be appointed Master Carpenter of the BEDFORD galley, in place of the former dismissed by Court Martial. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of wages and victuals for himself and servant as is proper.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-11 ADM/A/1839/123

You are directed to have the DUNKIRK at Chatham, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months to her highest complement.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-14 ADM/A/1862/117

We have considered your letter of 2 February and the enclosure from the Commissioners of the Victualing, about the retrenchments to be made to their office now in time of peace.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-11 ADM/A/1839/121

Your letter of 8 February gives us an account that the Pursers of His Majesty's ships, because they are not paid their necessary money, nor balance bills either for their petty warrant, or sea accounts, cannot supply the ships with necessaries nor of buying the seamen's short provisions, s…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-11 ADM/A/1839/117

The DEPTFORD and SMIRNA MERCHANT, now in Yarmouth Roads, are ordered to convoy the trade from there to Holland, and to stay there 8 days for them.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-06 ADM/A/1839/69

You are directed to have two of the ships here mentioned (HUNTER, VULCAN, St PAUL, CRESCENT, ETNA and ST VINCENT) as are in the best condition and can soonest be fitted for a foreign voyage, fitted with all possible dispatch and supplied with 8 months stores and provisions.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-06 ADM/A/1839/65

We have received a letter from Vice Admiral Mitchell and another from Mr Branden about the want of victuals at Portsmouth. Captain Munden also writes about the want of provisions for the ships at the Nore.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-08 ADM/A/1839/78

We have received a letter from Israel Browne, Master of the MARGARET yacht of London, giving an account of an anchor at Margate which has the King's mark. You are directed to have the anchor returned to His Majesty's stores.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/265

Richard Card, late Boatswain of the CHARLES galley, is to be appointed Boatswain of the BETTY. 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 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/271

Joseph Luke, Carpenter of the COMET, bomb vessel, is to be appointed Master Carpenter 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 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/269

Benjamin Laurence is to be appointed Master Cook of the BETTY. 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 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-24 ADM/A/1839/267

John Thompson is to be appointed Master Cook of the LIZARD. 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 24 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-23 ADM/A/1862/245

You received direction to have a stop put on any wages assigned by Rice Lloyd to others without order from this Board on information received that he had been forging letters of attorney assigning wages to others.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/257

At a Court Martial held on board the DREADNOUGHT in Hamoze on 17 February, Captain Whetstone, Commander of the PRESIDENT. Enquiry was made into the PENDENNIS being run aground in Rye Bay and it being found to be the omission of Richard Brincknell, Master, he was mulcted 6 months pay.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-23 ADM/A/1839/261

The CENTURION at the Nore being in want of provisions, you are directed to have her victualling completed to 10 weeks with all dispatch.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-18 ADM/A/1839/203

Advice has come from Cadiz by letters dated 11/21 January, that the Turkey convoy has arrived there and is in want of all sorts of provisions, for which it was feared they would have to remain until credits came from England.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-19 ADM/A/1839/201

The Commander of the HENRY prize at Hull informs us that her beam is rotten and we have ordered her to the Nore. You are directed to give your opinion as to where she may be most conveniently be fitted for sea.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-02-18 ADM/A/1839/205

Samuel Roberts is to be appointed Master Cook of the BLAST bomb vessel, in place of the former removed to the ST PAUL fireship. You are directed to enter him accordingly together with such allowance of for himself and servant as is proper. His warrant is to be dated 18 February 1696/7.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-21 ADM/A/1862/217

We have considered your letter of 13 February, with the copy of one from the Commissioner at Plymouth, asking whether the WINCHELSEA guardship should be rigged and have a Purser. She should be completely rigged, but in because of the small number of men we do not think she should have a Purser.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1699-02-22 ADM/A/1862/225

The Commissioners for the Victualing have recommended that Mr Robert Westbrooke and Mr Harvey serve as their agent in the Straits, they having been there in 1695. They also think a clerk should be sent there to assist them. The former agent was allowed £200 per annum and his clerk £60 per annum.…