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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-01-16
ADM/A/1838/396
Warrant appointing John Markin to be Boatswain of the EXPRESS Advice Boat. Countersigned by William Bridgeman; Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-29
ADM/A/1819/304
The CENTURION is to be cleaned and refitted at Sheerness for service in the Channel on her return from Holland and victualled for ten months.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-29
ADM/A/1819/300
Directing that the sum of one thousand eight hundred plus pounds be paid to Mr Meester in respect of the Machine Vessels during last year and the present year provided he can produce vouchers showing the amounts disbursed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-27
ADM/A/1819/265
Captain Hammond, Commander of the ANTELOPE Hospital ship is complaining that he lacks the crew required to sail her, or even to raise her anchors. The Navy Board are to investigate and report.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/339
Captain Fairfax, the NEWARK requests some of his crew may be borne on her Store ships.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-27
ADM/A/1817/351
Cause Captain Barber, Commander, the PRINCE GEORGE now at Leith, to be furnished with credits for a months provisions.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/347
The LIZARD to be cleaned and victualed at Milford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/345
Order the Muster Master at Yarmouth to enter all such volunteers for the UNITY to allow them Conduct money.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/343
Advise what allowances the Officers of the Yards enjoy, in consideration of the proposed augmentation of their salaries.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-28
ADM/A/1817/319
Supply [illegible] Richards with boats and tenders for inspecting Bomb vessels.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-28
ADM/A/1817/317
The COVENTRY to be launched at Deptford, fitted out, manned and victualed for the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/329
Information laid before the Board touching on the abuses committed and the Embezzlement of Cordage at Portsmouth.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/325
Tenders to the HOPE and the CAPTAIN to be discharged in the River.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-28
ADM/A/1817/323
The new Bomb vessels to be crewed by thirty men and equipped with four guns of 8 or 10 Cwt.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-29
ADM/A/1817/357
Cause the BONADVENTURE to be supplied with stores at the Nore, as per Captain John Redman's enclosed request.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-01-01
ADM/A/1838/7
Confirming a warrant issued by Captain John Fletcher Commander of the HAMPSHIRE dated 10th September 1695 for William Payne to be Purser of the HAMPSHIRE in place of the former deceased.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-01-02
ADM/A/1838/25
Ordering the FOWEY at Plymouth and the GOSPORT at Portsmouth to be sheathed, fitted, victualled and stored, the first for a voyage to New York and the second for the West Indies, notwithstanding any directions to the contrary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-01-06
ADM/A/1838/47
The MERMAID and WINCHELSEA at the Nore have been detailed to convoy colliers to and from New Castle and to remain doing so until further notice.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-01-08
ADM/A/1838/63
Ordering the ANGLESEY, DOVER, WEYMOUTH and LOOE to be cleaned refitted at Kinsale and victualled for ten weeks service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-01-05
ADM/A/1838/41
Funds are to be made available to the Colonels of the Marine Regiments for the subsistence of various ranks engaged in recruiting.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-01-06
ADM/A/1838/45
A number of ships listed on the reverse destined for places in the Caribbean and North America are reported to have parted with part of their Provisions in order to aid other ships - some of them to a considerable extent.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-27
ADM/A/1817/301
Appoint William Betts, formally the LYON, to be master Carpenter, the SHREWSBURY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1697-01-12
ADM/A/1838/93
Sir Cloudlessly Shovell has returned from off Brest. His Men have been on short allowance throughout the cruise. Instructions are given for them to be paid the monies owing to them and to make good their need for victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-26
ADM/A/1817/299
Appoint john Blackwall, Purser, the VIRGIN PRIZE.
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