In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

The Navy Board are enclosing a letter from the Earl of Danby proposing the launching of the ROYAL WILLIAM in the Spring, to have her masts taken out and docking her again for girdling so that the DUKE may succeed the LONDON and the KATHERINE Hulk the DUKE next Spring. Instructions are given for the vessels to be refitted in that order provided they can be dealt with in the time proposed. As regards the girdling of the ROYAL WILLIAM reference is made to instructions sent yesterday.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1804/360
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1694-02-28
Creator: Cary, Anthony; Priestman, Henry Austen, Robert
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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