In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Requiring surveys to be made with costs of refitting and victualling the two Fireships called the ST VINCENT and the RUZEE recently taken from the French and now at Portsmouth together with recommendations for the number of Men and Armaments required to equip them. The Admiralty also requires the French Prize Wild also at Portsmouth to be urgently fitted for sea for service in the Channel with two months' Victuals. The crewing and arming of the latter is to be as per the Navy Board's letter of the fourth of June.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1784/109
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1692-06-18
Creator: Cornwallis, Charles; Lowther, John Onslow, Richard Priestman, Henry Austen, Robert Rich, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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