Volume II of II (for volume I see RUSI/NM/90): includes correspondence from the Admiralty Board to Vice-Admiral of the White, Holburne, Commander - in - chief, Portsmouth, 20 June 1758 - 4 September 1766; a letter from the Admiralty Board to Edward Hawke, 17 March 1756; a list of ships at Spithead and Portsmouth Harbour, 20 April 1758, to Vice - Admiral of the Red at Portsmouth, Commander - in - chief Holburne; a letter from Edward Hawke, NEPTUNE at Spithead, to Holburne, 10 May 1758; Portsmouth Dockyard to Holburne, 6 June 1758; Howe, ESSEX at St. Helens, to Holburne, 1 July 1758; Boscawen, Louisbourg, 12 September 1758, to Holburne; a courts martial proceeding, NEWARK, at Portsmouth, 28 October 1760, re: complaint of Captain Clerke, BASILISK; two letters from George Rodney, undated and 29 April 1771 respectively; a list of the French fleet at Brest and a copy of the list of 1688 of the Captain's of his Majesty's Fleet, with the dates of their commissions, from which they took post, remarks as to what became of them.

A copy of the list of 1688 of the Captain's of his Majesty's Fleet, with the dates of their commissions, from which they took post, remarks as to what became of them and copies of letters relating to these commissions.