In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

1. The ships at Gravesend and Plymouth that are ready to embark with recruits for Colonel Russell's regiment in Barbados are to be kept supplied with Petty Warrant victuals until they depart. Mr Carey, agent for the Leeward Islands, will supply a list of the ships and the number of recruits each will carry.
2. One hundredweight of tallow for facilitating easier traversing of the mortars is to be put on board each of the bomb vessels ordered to be fitted out.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1820/76
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1695-06-10
Creator: Lowther, John; Austen, Robert Houblon, John
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London