In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

Your letter of 22 July advised us that the FOUDROYANT and prize for 1695 (which we have named the THUNDERBOLT prize), may the same number of men and number and nature of guns as the new 5th Rate lately built and now building for His Majesty. You are directed to have established accordingly and fitted out for service in the Channel, manned with her highest complement of men, and victualled for 10 weeks with all dispatch.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1832/234
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1696-07-24
Creator: Austen, Robert; Rich, Robert Kendall, James
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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