In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board

You have informed us that the new 4th Rate building at Portsmouth, which we have named the LITCHFIELD, will be ready for launching the last Spring in January. We direct you to cause her launching as soon as convenient, and fitted out for Channel service, manned to her highest complement of Men, and victualled for three months with all dispatch.

Record Details

Item reference: ADM/A/1814/393
Catalogue Section: Public records: records of the central administration of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy
Level: PAGE
Date made: 1694-12-27
Creator: Austen, Robert; Rooke, George Houblon, John
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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