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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-21
ADM/A/1794/155
I have received your letter of yesterday requesting convoy for the HENRY & JANE hoy, bound with stores for Portsmouth and the Admiralty Commissioners have ordered the Commanders of any of the ships at the Nore bound to Spithead, to convey her thither.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-24
ADM/A/1794/167
Orders have gone to the Commander of the SOOSDYKE yacht, to receive Captain Hill with clerks and money to be sent down to the fleet, and to follow the Comptroller or his orders, and you are to give the necessary directions for her dispatch from the yard.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-01-29
ADM/A/1771/156
On seeing the Comptroller this morning, the Commissioners of the Admiralty have appointed to meet tomorrow at 5pm and do desire your Board to attend.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-04-10
ADM/A/1794/79
By command of the Admiralty Commissioners, I am to desire that you will let them know, upon what account it is, that the wages of Captain Byng, for his service as Commander of the ROYAL OAK is stopped.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1793/234
Account for Shoes and Buckles for Marine Regiments.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-24
ADM/A/1793/206
To hasten provisions for the SURPRISE at Gravesend.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-01-10
ADM/A/1771/68
Having received your request for a Convoy be provided for the Constant ladened with Naval Store from the Downs to Portsmouth, I can confirm that orders have been sent to provide the escort at the first opportunity.…
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-01-01
ADM/A/1771/1
This encloses the Press Warrant from the Commander of the Admiralty approving the Master Attendant at Woolwich to press 12 Riggers and 12 Labourers re your Boards request on 29th of last Month.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-18
ADM/A/1775/68
Sending a letter from Captain James Wishart, Commander of the MARY GALLEY, and signed also by Captain Buck, of the CHARLES GALLEY, bound for the Baltic, complaining that Stephen Harland, the Trinity House Pilot appointed to the MARY GALLEY, has hazarded his ship.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-20
ADM/A/1775/79
The ALDBOROUGH [ALBROUGH] to sail from the Downs to Portland, from where she is to convoy vessels carrying stone to Plymouth for the new dock.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-11
ADM/A/1775/30
Enclosing an extract from a letter received from Captain Chamberlain, Commander of the CHESTER, at Plymouth, complaining of the want of deals to construct a platform for wounded men to lie on. The deficiency is to be made up there.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-06-02
ADM/A/1775/5
The LARKE has sprung her fore-topmast and replaced it with her spare. A new spare spar is to be sent to her upon her return from convoying Mr Barrett's vessels which are carrying timber from Shoreham to Harwich.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-05-11
ADM/A/1795/124
Accepting an Estimate for the breaking up of the HARWICH Wreck.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-12-12
ADM/A/1779/114
Enclose warrant for impressing 80 Shipwrights & 20 Caulkers for Deptford Yard.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-12-06
ADM/A/1779/39
The list of defects of the PLYMOUTH in the Downs. Is she in condition to go about to Portsmouth or to what Yard we advise her being brought.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-07-09
ADM/A/1785/77
The TIGER PRIZE being ordered from the Gunfleet, Convoy to Hambrough, I am commanded that you order her an able Pilot for that service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-07-06
ADM/A/1785/43
The Admiralty Commissioners desire you to send to the Owners of the three Vessels lately hired by their Orders, to be employed as Bomb Vessels, to name to your Board the Persons they desire to be appointed Boatswains and Carpenters of these Vessels, and transmit their names to this Office in order t…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-04
ADM/A/1775/163
Enclosing an abstract of a letter from Captain Finch, Commander of the HENRY PRIZE, requesting that the clothes and slops that were to be sent to him at Plymouth in the BAYLEY [BAILEY] shall, instead, be sent after him to Virginia, in case he has sailed before they arrive.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-02
ADM/A/1775/151
The Earl of Nottingham has been informed that there are two ships of about 140 to 150 tons in the wet dock at Deptford which may be suitable for the Navy's use. Provide more information.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-27
ADM/A/1775/246
The Ordinary Estimate required by tomorrow evening.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-28
ADM/A/1775/250
The SHEERNESS, at the Buoy of the Nore, has not received the victuals that should have been delivered upon her arrival thither. The victuals to be sent immediately and an explanation given for the delay.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1691-07-11
ADM/A/1775/187
Approving the estimates for rebuilding the DUNKIRK and the ROYAL PRINCE.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-11-14
ADM/A/1778/129
Enclosure: Certified copy of a letter from Captain Richard Cotton of the DIAMOND in Plymouth received via St. Helen's Point in which he tells of various wants and misadventures - principally the want of Stores.
Document signed by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty, fl. 1690-1694. (Manuscript)
1691-11-18
ADM/A/1778/111
Mr Chapman, late Surgeon of the FORESIGHT has only recently recovered from an illness and is unable to join the OXFORD. A request is made for finding a replacement.
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