In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

You have informed us that the new third Rate Ship building at Harwich will be ready to be launched the next Spring or the first in January at the latest. We have named her the YARMOUTH, and established with same number of Men and number of Guns as are allowed to the HOPE.
We direct you to cause her to be launched at the time aforesaid, and fitted out for Channel service, manned to her highest Complement of Men, and victualled for four months.

Object Details

ID: ADM/A/1814/221
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Priestman, Henry; Cornwallis, Charles Rooke, George
Date made: 1694-12-15
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 page
Parts: Navy Board, In-Letters And Orders (Manuscript)