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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-03
ADM/A/1834/44
Vice Admiral Aylmer has been ordered to cause a careful survey to be taken of the Hulls of the first and second Rates and of the old Gun Ship at Spithead, in order that we may better know which of them are in the best condition to continue there this Winter.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/16
Having ordered the MONTAGUE to sail to Woolwich we direct you, upon her arrival there, to cause her to be laid up and paid off, and that her Repairs be taken in hand and dispatched as soon as may be.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-30
ADM/A/1810/317
Wedirect you forthwith to give directions for the Ordinary and Riggers of Chatham Yard to assist Captain Billop, Commander of the LONDON, in carrying that Ship from Blackstakes up to Chatham.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-30
ADM/A/1810/319
We direct you to cause the SANDADOES Prize and the HIND Pink at Portsmouth, and the MONTAGUE at Sheerness, to be cleaned and refitted at those places with all possible dispatch for Service in the Channe, and furnished with three months Provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/323
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Whiston to be Purser of the JOSIAH
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/14
We direct you to cause the Brigantine SPY upon her arrival at Sheerness to be cleaned and refitted for Channel service and victualled for ten weeks.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-02
ADM/A/1834/26
Having ordered the VANGUARD and ROYAL KATHERINE to proceed to Chatham to be refitted, we direct you upon their arrival there to cause their repairs to be taken in hand and the Ships put into condition for next Summer's service at Sea with all dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/329
Sir Cloudesley Shovel having informed us that the Fireships MACHINE, ST PAUL, JOSEPH and CHARLES are in so bad a condition that they are of no service, we have therefore directed him to send them to the Buoy of the Nore, and direct you to give this Board an account to which of their Majesties' …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/331
Having ordered the PRUDENCE into such Merchant Dock in the Thames as the Owners shall desire in order for her to be refitted, we direct you to cause her to be cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel at the Charge of the Owners. You are to order her being victualled for three months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-31
ADM/A/1810/325
Warrant for the appointment of Edward Golston to be Master Gunner of the JOSIAH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/20
We have already directed that the Ships and Vessels bound for foreign voyages shall be victualled for four months dry and three months wet Provisions for their highest complement of Men at whole allowance .…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/18
Captain Littleton, Commander of the PORTLAND, has informed this Board that he has taken and brought into Dartmouth a French Spy carrying six Guns and four Patereroes.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/299
Warrant for the appointment of John Windell to be Master Bricklayer of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/301
Warrant for the appointment of Richard Coaker to be Master Boat Maker of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/295
Warrant for the appointment of Robert Odell to be Master Mast-Maker of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/297
Warrant for the appointment of William Reeve to be Master House Carpenter of the Woolwich Yard.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-28
ADM/A/1810/293
Warrant for the appointment of Phineas Shrewsbury to be Master Cook of the ROYAL WILLIAM.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/307
Warrant for the appointment of William Allen to be Cook of the NEPTUNE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/309
We direct you tocause the Yacht MARY to be cleaned, refitted and put in a condition for the Sea at Deptford with all possible dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-29
ADM/A/1810/305
Warrant for the appointment of Thomas Pullen to be Master Carpenter of the JOSIAH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/5
Captain Tollat, who now commands the WARWICK, is going on a foreign voyage. We direct you to cause the Wages due to him for his service in the TALBOT Pink, SEAHORSE and WINCHELSEA to be paid, provided he shall have passed his accounts for the said Ships, and that you have no objection to the same.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-09-01
ADM/A/1834/1
At a Court Martial held on board the VANGUARD at the Nore on the 29th August last, Captain John Graydon, C-in-C of HM Ships in the Thames and Medway, President, John Okey, late Surgeons Mate of the ASSISTANCE, was tried for speaking treasonable and seditious words on board the said Ship on the 3r…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-27
ADM/A/1810/276
You opined in your letter of the 24th inst; to this Board that it will be necessary to allow the JOSIAH the Men and Guns following for he rvoyage to Cadiz for their Majesties' Fleet in the Mediterranean.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-08-25
ADM/A/1810/272
We direct you to cause the MERCURY Advice Boat to be cleaned at Dover and put into a condition for the Sea. You are to give Orders that all Advice Boats be cleaned once every month for the future at any Ports where they come in for that purpose.
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