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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-26 ADM/A/1799/275
Having ordered the SHEERNESS into Portsmouth Harbour to be cleaned and refitted for Service in the Channel, we direct you to cause this to be taken in hand and completed as soon as possible, and to furnish her with three Months Victuals for this Service.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-19 ADM/A/1799/203
Direct you to cause the Provisions on board the EAGLE, DEFIANCE and CAMBRIDGE to be completed to four Months with all dispatch, the CAMBRIDGE at Spithead, and the EAGLE and DEFIANCE at the Buoy of the Nore, but if they have sailed from there before the Provisions get down to them, then at Spithead.<…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-18 ADM/A/1799/191
Warrant for George Hews to be appointed Master Gunner of the hired Ship DELAVALL.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-26 ADM/A/1799/273
Direct you to cause the Fifth and Sixth Rate Ships building in their Majesties' Yards to be completed with all the dispatch that the other necessary Works at the Yards will admit.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-07 ADM/A/1827/112
Enclosure: Copy of a letter from Mr E Waffe, Mr Lea and Mr [Stollord] at Plymouth in which he/they relate that they have been on-board the EXPRESS Advice Boat and found the Officers and seamen very critical of her handling in a seaway during the recent bad weather, that she frequently took seas and …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-07 ADM/A/1827/111
Enclosure: Copy of a letter from Captain Edward Windsor Commander of the EXPRESS Advice Boat in Cattewater in which he describes in detail his experiences at sea since leaving and returning to Cattewater including being chased by a Privateer and of experiencing very heavy weather including the risk …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-10 ADM/A/1827/110
Officers at Plymouth Yard together with the Commander and Officers of the EXPRESS Advice Boat have reported that she has been forced into Plymouth due to heavy weather, casting doubt on her fitness to embark on service with the East Indies Company.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-10 ADM/A/1827/108
A pension of two hundred pounds per annum is to be settled on Lady Arabella Wheeler as compensation for the loss of her husband Sir Francis Wheeler who was lost with the SUSSEX. The pension is to commence from the day of his death and is to be paid quarterly out of the Ordinary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-11 ADM/A/1827/116
Two new Advice Boats are to be built urgently in places chosen by the Navy Board. They are, in general, to follow the design of previous advice boats but are to incorporate any improvements thought necessary for them to succeed on foreign service.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/144
Warrant appointing John Muffet to be Boatswain and Gunner of the FLY Brigantine. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
Document signed by William Bridgeman, c.1646-1699, English civil servant and Secretary to the Admiralty between 1694 and 1698. (Manuscript) 1695-02-12 ADM/A/1827/140
Orders are being sent to the CAPTAIN and the MARY Galley to sail for Goree in Holland with recruits and troops to secure that place. Pilots are required.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-12 ADM/A/1827/138
The RAINBOW has been used as a breakwater at the back of the graving dock at Sheerness but has been badly damaged in a recent storm to the extent that any further deterioration will render the graving dock unusable in bad weather. She has also become a hazard to shipping.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/146
Warrant appointing Thomas Harwood to be Master Carpenter of the POSTBOY Brigantine. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-12 ADM/A/1827/154
Warrant appointing Silvester Lilly to be Master Cook of the VULTURE Fireship in place of the former who has died. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett, Joint Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/150
The Navy Board has been ordered to find out why the fitting out of the two Advice Boats at Plymouth destined for service with the East India Company has been so protracted.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-12 ADM/A/1827/148
The GREYHOUND and QUAKER Ketch are to be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth and victualled for ten weeks service in the Channel.