In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

We direct you to cause the Ships undermentioned to be forthwith fitted for a voyage to the West Indies, at the several places against their names expressed, to be manned with their middle complements of Men, and furnished with eight months victuals of proper species for such a voyage, causing such of them as are not already, to be sheathed, and all possible dispatch used.
Twelve vessels named, commencing with the RUPERT at Portsmouth.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1785/216
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1692-07-23
Creator: Cornwallis, Charles; Lowther, John Austen, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London