In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

The SWEEPSTAKES, MERMAID and WINCHELSEA are appointed to Convoy the Colliers to and from Newcastle.We direct you to give Orders that upon the arrival of the Ships at the Buoy of the Nore, the Provisions aboard them be immediately completed to ten weeks each, and that they be supplied from time to time as they spend thereon, that so when they sai lfrom the Nore they may have full ten weeks Provisions aboard.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1831/134
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1696-06-17
Creator: Russell, Edward; Rich, Robert Kendall, James
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London