In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

We direct you to use your best endeavour to find a Ship of about three or four hundred tons, either at Portsmouth or Southampton, fitting to be at Spithead for receiving Men, and to give us an account of what you do.
You are also to consider and recommend to this Board a fitting Person to to perform the Duty of Master Attendant on float in case Captain Akarman is superannuated.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1796/229
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1693-06-29
Creator: Cary, Anthony; Lowther, John Priestman, Henry Austen, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London