In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board
There are occasions when vessels employed as advice boats from western ports cannot be hired and fitted as soon as the Navy requires. Captain Greenhill, Agent for the Navy at Plymouth, informs us that there are two small ketches there of 40 guns, lately brought in by the ships CROWN and ADVICE and a small snow of 20 tons, which are proper vessels for advice boats. You are directed to have the snow and one of the ketches fitted in readiness for any sudden occasion as advice boats and taken care of by the men of the hulks when in port.
Record Details
| Item reference: | ADM/A/1773/191 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy |
| Level: | PAGE |
| Extent: | 1 page |
| Date made: | 1691-03-23 |
| Creator: | Herbert, Thomas; Lowther, John Onslow, Richard Cary, Anthony Austen, Robert |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |