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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-24 ADM/A/1827/257
Ordering all possible despatch to be made in fitting the LIGHTNING, JOSEPH, ST. VINCENT and FORTUNE Fireship currently in the Thames and the CRESCENT now at Chatham for sea.…
Document signed by Josiah Burchett (c.1666-1746), Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1742) (Manuscript) 1696-02-25 ADM/A/1827/271
Ordering the immediate supplying of a pilot to take the EDGAR from Chatham to the Downs.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-25 ADM/A/1827/269
Confirming a Warrant issued by Admiral Russell appointing Beverly Lathan to be Master Carpenter of the Trident Prize. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett Temporary Acting Secretary of the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-25 ADM/A/1827/267
Instructing that all of the six inch Bomb Vessels that can be made ready for sea soonest are to join the Squadron in the Downs and that notice is to be given to the Ordnance Office to supply the ships nominated by the Navy Board with all necessary armaments keeping the Admiralty informed.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-21 ADM/A/1827/237
The Hospital Ship SOCIETY is to be revictualled with the same allowance as previously.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-02-24 ADM/A/1827/255
Ordering the SUNDERLAND, BONAVENTURE and CHATHAM to be fitted for service in the Channel and to be provided with four month's victuals each.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-22 ADM/A/1827/249
The Navy Board having written to the Admiralty with copies of letters from the Commissioners for Victualling and their Agent at Plymouth with regard to establishing a victualling facility at Emple-Compe (Empacombe) on the opposite side of the Hamoaze (to Devonport), the Board is rebuked for not havi…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-02-21 ADM/A/1827/247
Warrant appointing John Adams, Purser of the PEARL, to be Purser of BONAVENTURE in place of the former who has been moved to the ROYAL OAK. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1800/7
Warrant appointing Thomas Sutton Purser of the WOOLWICH to be Purser of the SUFFOLK in place of the former deceased.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-02 ADM/A/1800/1
Chasing up on supplies of victuals for ships at Spithead.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-05 ADM/A/1800/56
Warrant appointing John Vassall to be Boatswain and Gunner of the GOODWIN Prize. Countersigned by James Southerne, Secretary to the Admiralty Board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-10 ADM/A/1800/99
The DISPATCH Brigantine at Spithead is to be readied for sea immediately and supplied with victuals for two months service in the Channel.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-09-29 ADM/A/1799/314
In your letter to this Board of the 11th inst; you sent us a List which you have received from the Portsmouth Commissioners of the names of several Workmen who absconded without leave from that Yard.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-24 ADM/A/1800/245
Containing a list of seventeen First, Second and Third Rates that have been ordered Chatham for survey and repair headed by the BRITTANIA .
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1696-04-03 ADM/A/1829/51
Copy of an extract of a letter from Captain Cornwall requesting his Wages for the time he commanded the ADVENTURE and PLYMOUTH.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-10-26 ADM/A/1800/269
Agents and others are to be reminded that the men they recruit to serve as Shipwrights and Caulkers in HM Yards are qualified to perform as such.