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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-04 ADM/A/1834/52

We direct you to cause the Fireship HUNTER at Woolwich to be cleaned and refitted there for Channel service and victualled for three months.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-04 ADM/A/1834/38

Your letter of the 4th inst; to our Secretary informed us that the new fifth Rate Ship FEVERSHAM, building at Shoreham by Mr Ellis, may be ready to launch the next Spring.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-21 ADM/A/1810/339

Robert Tubb, Cook of the IPSWICH, through age and infirmity, is incapable of discharging his duty according to Captain Townsend. You are to report to this Board whether he is eligible for a Pension.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-08-31 ADM/A/1810/335

We direct you to give Orders to the Portsmouth and Plymouth Commissioners that as any of their Majesties' Ships come there disabled, their repairs should be taken in hand as soon as possible, and they should be supplied with such Stores as shall be necessary for putting them in a condition for…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/30

Warrant for the appointment of Arthur Allen to be Master Gunner of the VESUVIUS.

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/28

We have considered your letter of the 28th past to our Secretary giving an account that upon your receipt of Orders for fitting to Sea the ESSEX, RUPERT, WARSPIGHT, EAGLE, BREDA, YORK and PLYMOUTH, Masters and Surgeons were appointed to them as usual.…

In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-09-02 ADM/A/1834/32

The SHREWSBURY, NEWARK, CHICHESTER, and RESTORATION at Spithead, being suddenly designed for Sea, we direct you to cause them to be fitted there and put into a condition for Channel service with all dispatch, and their victualling completed to two months or ten weeks each.

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.