In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

The ships listed being designated to be refitted in Portsmouth for next year's service, and those intended to be kept abroad this winter then to be refitted in the Spring. We direct you to survey the Ships at Spithead as they arrive and account taken of their defects, and ordered into Portsmouth as convenient for getting them ready for Sea in the Spring, taking those that require the least work first. Ships for This Year's Service: HOPE; LENOX; NORTHUMBERLAND; STIRLING CASTLE; DEVONSHIRE; RUSSELL; CORNWALL; BOYNE. Ships for This Winter's Service: BREDAH; EDGAR; CAMBRIDGE; DEFIANCE; MONTAGUE; PLYMOUTH; YORK; SWIFTSURE; WARSPITE; RUPERT; DREADNAUGHT.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1788/95
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1692-10-10
Creator: Cornwallis, Charles; Austen, Robert Lowther, John Cary, Anthony Rich, Robert Onslow, Richard Priestman, Henry
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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