In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

You are directed to have the BIDEFORD, upon her arrival at Deptford, sheathed and fitted there for a foreign voyage and victualled for 4 months for her middle complement of men. You are to have her present complement reduced and such men that she has over and above it, turned over to the RUBY prize at the Nore.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1835/125
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1696-10-12
Creator: Rich, Robert; Rooke, George Kendall, James
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London