In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

You advised in your letter of 27 June, that the privateer lately taken by the PORTSMOUTH and brought into Falmouth, is fit to serve as an advice boat and may carry 45 men and 10 guns in war and 30 men and 8 guns in time of peace. You are directed to buy this privateer on the best terms you can and to fit her out for sea (at Plymouth upon her arrival there) for service in the Channel, and established with men and guns accordingly and victualled for 2 months with all possible dispatch.

Object Details

ID: ADM/A/1808/302
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Lowther, John; Priestman, Henry Austen, Robert Cornwallis, Charles Rooke, George Houblon, John
Date made: 1694-06-29
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 page
Parts: Navy Board, In-Letters And Orders (Manuscript)