In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

You have informed us that the new third Rate Ship building at Harwich will be ready to be launched the next Spring or the first in January at the latest. We have named her the YARMOUTH, and established with same number of Men and number of Guns as are allowed to the HOPE.
We direct you to cause her to be launched at the time aforesaid, and fitted out for Channel service, manned to her highest Complement of Men, and victualled for four months.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1814/221
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Extent: 1 page
Date made: 1694-12-15
Creator: Priestman, Henry; Cornwallis, Charles Rooke, George
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London