Our shipwrights and caulkers &c. were on Monday last ordered into the dock-yard to work at five o'clock in the morning, for the greater dispatch of the ships now fitting out here for sea, and are to continue working till half past seven in the evening, except one hour, which is allowed them for dinner.
On Saturday sailed from this port for Sheerness, the Orford hospital ship of 70 guns, commanded by Lieut. Richard Vavasor, at which place she is to receive the sick and imprest men from on board the Conquestadore, where a great sickness prevails.
1. London Chronicle, March 20 to March 22, 1777.
