In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

In pursuance of an order of their Excellences the Lords Justices in Council of 7 July, you are directed to have the MACHINE fireship, which is wholly unfit for further service, sunk at Sheerness as lately proposed by you for the better security of the graving place there. She should be placed in the next Privy Seal for the sale of unserviceable ships and stores.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1832/77
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1696-07-09
Creator: Russell, Edward; Rooke, George Kendall, James
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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