In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

1. Ordering a 20-oared boat to be built at Deptford for the use of Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Vice Admiral of the Red, having the same dimensions as that lately built for Vice Admiral Aylmer.

2. Captain Stewart, commanding the DORSETSHIRE, is to be furnished with a smack, in addition to the ketches already ordered for her, to better enable him to man the ship.

3. As the court martial inquiring into the casting away of the LUMLEY CASTLE, Hired Ship, in the Mediterranean, has found that her commander and officers were not to blame, they are to be paid up to the date of her loss.

Object Details

ID: ADM/A/1813/328
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Priestman, Henry; Rooke, George Cornwallis, Charles
Date made: 1694-11-30
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 page
Parts: Navy Board, In-Letters And Orders (Manuscript)