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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/268
You are directed to let us know what provisions Rear Admiral Nevill sailed with to Cadiz and what quantity went with him in victualling ships for a supply. His Majesty has referred the petition of James Ardescrife to us, wherin he prays to use his invention on one of His Majesty's ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/264
You are directed to have the DOVER prize now at Hoylake, cleaned and refitted for service in the Channel and victualled for 10 weeks or 2 months with all dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-28 ADM/A/1836/262
Your letter of 26 November enclosed an extract of one from the Commissioners of the Victualling, wherein they state that without a speedy supply of money, they will not be able to provide victuals for His Majesty's ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-11-30 ADM/A/1836/328
William Smith, late Purser of the VANGUARD, is to be appointed Purser of the new 2nd Rate building at Portsmouth as soon as she is ready to receive him. 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) 1696-11-30 ADM/A/1836/312
We understand by your letter of 28 November that the RAINBOW privateer, lately taken by the MEDWAY and brought into Portsmouth, is a ship of about 345 tons and may be refitted as a 5th Rate for about £1200.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-01 ADM/A/1837/3
Having ordered the BREDAH to Portsmouth, and the CHESTER to Plymouth, we direct you upon their arrival at those places to cause them to be cleaned and refitted there for a voyage to the West Indies, and furnished with eight months Provisions each of proper species for such a voyage for their middl…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-01 ADM/A/1837/E
Several Ships are ordered to the Downs and will need Provisions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-01 ADM/A/1837/A
We direct you to cause the DOVER Prize, lately ordered to be fitted at Hylake, to be cleaned and refitted there for a voyage to Virginia and victualled for eight months for her middle Complement of Men, reduced from her present number.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-04 ADM/A/1837/53
We direct you to cause Joseph Purcell , who lately had a Warrant to be Surgeon of the LENOX, to be appointed Surgeon of the KENT, so soon as she is in a condition to receive such an Officer.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-03 ADM/A/1837/22
The Board having resolved that all HM Ships which are bound on Foreign Convoys (excepting those designed for Virginia and the Canaries) shall be paid to Michaelmas 95, before they proceed on their voyages, which will be the last of this month, and the said Convoys being ordered to the Downs to rende…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-03 ADM/A/1837/24
We direct you to cause the WARSPITE upon her arrival at Chatham to be cleaned and refitted there for the next Summer's Service in the Channel, and victualled in the same manner as the other Ships of the Main Fleet are ordered to be victualled.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-05 ADM/A/1837/63
We direct you to cause the EXPERIMENT at Spithead to be fitted there for a voyage to the West Indies according to our former Orders, and victualled for eight months each of proper species for that voyage, for her middle complement of Men, to which you are to cause her present number to be reduced.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-04 ADM/A/1837/57
Warrant for the appointment of Philip Matthews to be Purser of the SUFFOLK Hagg Boat.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-14 ADM/A/1837/358
Our order of today's date directed you to cause the ESSEX to be surveyed on her arrival at the Nore, but having since sent Orders to her Commander in case the wind is Northerly or Easterly to proceed to Spithead, we direct you to cause her to be surveyed there, and give us an account of her def…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-31 ADM/A/1837/342
We direct you to cause the Captain, Lieutenants and all the Officers and Company of the MARY (excepting the standing Officers and their allowed servants) to be turned over into the ELIZABETH at Portsmouth, and that the said Ships be fitted and victualled for the Main Fleet according to the former Or…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-30 ADM/A/1837/336
His Majesty has been informed by Vice Admiral Allemand that a Dutch Man of War called the SNEEK, Captain Leyden van Leewen Commander, has lost her Bowsprit and received other damage by the Vice Admiral of the Blue's Squadron running foul of her when the Fleet sailed lately from St.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-24 ADM/A/1837/275
The PLYMOUTH has lately struck Rocks near St. Francis Island, and her Rudder is struck off, and most of her false keel. We direct you to make her fit for Sea at Plymouth with all dispatch.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-25 ADM/A/1837/281
Information has been given to this Board by one Christopher Venman of abuses committed by the Victualling Officers and Pursers of HM Ships, a Copy of which is enclosed.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-24 ADM/A/1837/279
Captain Munden, C-in-C at the Nore, has informed us that if Provisions are not sent to them in a few days, they will be in need of all Species, especially Beer and Bread.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-28 ADM/A/1837/317
Captain Chant, Commander of the LINCOLN, and Captain GREENHILL, Commander of the GOSPORT, are going on a Foreign voyage. We direct to cause them to be paid two thirds of the Wages due to them, and that the King be made a saver out of their remainder and growing Pay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-28 ADM/A/1837/315
We direct you to give orders for graving the SUNDERLAND, now in Portsmouth Harbour.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-26 ADM/A/1837/313
Warrant for the appointment of WILLIAM BROWN to be Master Gunner of the BONAVENTURE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-12-28 ADM/A/1837/462
Warrant for the appointment of Richard Symonds to be Purser of the LENOX.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-01-01 ADM/A/1838/5
Warrant appointing Samuel Winn to be Master Carpenter of the FIREDRAKE Bomb Vessel in place of the former who has been removed.