In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board
A a proposal from Benjamin Midleton and Edmund Halley to undertake a voyage round the entire globe recording features of interest for the purposes of trade and navigation including attempting to discover a method of calculating longitude. A new ship of eighty tons is to be built at Deptford supplied with Boatswain's and Carpenter's Stores.
Record Details
| Item reference: | ADM/A/1797/58 |
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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: | 1693-07-12 |
| Creator: | Cary, Anthony; Lowther, John Priestman, Henry Austen, Robert |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |