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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-11 ADM/A/1801/129
Admiral Neville is to be paid for recent service as Admiral of the Blue. First Captains are also to be paid for their time in KENT and the BRITANNIA.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-27 ADM/A/1827/287
Advising that Mr Done has been appointed Muster Master at Liverpool and informing that he is to be responsible for the Naval Stores there with a duty to supply HM Ships as did his predecessor Mr Bourke.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-05 ADM/A/1800/46
The ships detailed for Winter service are to be victualled for four months, fully complemented and ready to sail by the 10th instant at the latest. Any causes of delay are to be submitted in writing for the attention of the King.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-04 ADM/A/1800/42
The LUCAS, a Galley, is being offered for service by her Commander John Hardham. The Board is to survey her and report on her suitability as a War Ship together with complement and number and type of armaments.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-05 ADM/A/1800/54
The FRIENDSHIP Pink carrying cables and cordage has been seized by a French Privateer while in sight of the convoy off the Isle of Wight. Her Haster has been repatriated however and is to present himself at the Admiralty.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-03 ADM/A/1800/18
A progress report is required on the paying of men turned over into ships on a particular service with victuals for two months and other ships earmarked for Winter service with four months victuals.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-06 ADM/A/1800/64
The men put aboard the Dover at Spithead to assist her passage to the Thames are to return to their ships as soon as they arrive at Deptford.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-23 ADM/A/1799/378
Her Majesty has signified to this Board by Sir John Trenchard, Principal Secretary of State, that all dispatch be made in getting ready the several Ships and vessels mentioned in the List overleaf (which are ordered to be fitted for Service this Winter) so they may be ready if possible by the first …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-06 ADM/A/1800/66
Following up on a letter already sent to the Navy Board requiring an account for the victualling of the FLUTE.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-06 ADM/A/1800/314
Captain George St. Loe, one of the Principal Officers of the Navy, is to be given an allowance for housing, together with the same number of Clerks with the same salaries as any other Commissioner of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-30 ADM/A/1799/361
Your letter of the 26th inst; proposed to us the LONDON Friggot and GEORGE, now in the River Thames, as fitting Ships to serve as Men of War. Direct you forthwith to treat with the Ships' Owners for hiring them, and let us know what you do.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-29 ADM/A/1799/315-2
We direct you to cause the Yacht SOUSDYKE, on arriving at Liverpool, to be graved and caulked and put into the best condition for Service in the Irish Sea this Winter, the same to be done with all dispatch.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-29 ADM/A/1799/327
Warrant for Richard Nicholson to be appointed Purser of the GUERNSEY.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-30 ADM/A/1799/359
In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure, signified by Sir John Trenchard, a Principal Secretary of State, we direct you to give orders to the Victualling Commissioners of the Navy, that they cause to be put on board two of the Machine vessels at Chatham Provisions for three weeks for 25 men.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-29 ADM/A/1799/323
Having ordered Rear Admiral Mitchell at the Buoy of the Nore to turn over so many Men on board the KATHERINE transport as will make up her complement, we direct you to cause the said Men to be paid, as soon as may be, the Wages due to them to the last of March past.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-29 ADM/A/1799/319
We direct you according as you were ordered by our letter of the 25th inst; forthwith to report to us what in your opinion is most proper to be done for what is offered by the Master Attendant at Chatham, touching the entertaining such Men as have leave to be absent from their Majesties' Ships,…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-16 ADM/A/1801/184
Estimates of the cost of building, rigging and providing with sea stores two Second Rates of ninety guns, twelve Fourth Rates of the dimensions of the CENTURION, four Fifth Rates and six Fireships of the same dimensions as the Fifth Rate Fireships last built.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-16 ADM/A/1801/194
Having received a report on the condition of the SWIFT Prize she is to be laid up at Portsmouth and her crew, excepting her Captain and Warrant Officers, turned over into such Mediterranean bound ships as Sir Francis Wheeler shall direct.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-11-17 ADM/A/1801/208
The PLYMOUTH, one of the ships of the Mediterranean Squadron, is to be paid in common with the other ships of that squadron. The Board is also required to immediately hire a merchant vessel at Portsmouth and to load her with the bread and dry provisions that the squadron is unable to carry.