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Observing upon the examination of your Accounts for the Pallas between the 26th. September 1775 and the 26 Septr 1776 the following expence of Stores Viz
1776
July Lost in the Mary Schooner Prize she having got on Shore in Attempt to come out of Port Antonio harbour by which she was lost. Viz
Hawser of 47 Inch
one No.
Seventy one fm
Anchor of
Cwt
qr.
lb
4.
2.
0
One No...
Date: 30 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas Mr. Robert Faulkner has been Educated in the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, and is well qualified to serve His Majesty at Sea, you are hereby required and directed to receive him on Board His Majesty's Ship under your Command, and enter him as one of her Complement.
You are to take Care that he applies himself to the Duty of a Seaman; and he is to have the Privilege of walking the Quarter-...
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Camel
Swift Slo.
Bute. A. V.
Whereas we have order'd the Commanding Officers of His Majesty's Ship, Sloop and Armed Vessel named in the Margin (the two first of which are at, and the latter on her way to Spithead) to put themselves under your command and follow your orders for their farther proceedings; You are hereby required and directed to take them under your command accordingly.
And...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith the private Signals for His Majesty's ships in North America by which they may know each other, and their Lordships understanding from Sir Geo: Collier Commander of His Majesty's Ship Rainbow at Hallifax, that the Alfred a rebel Privateer, upon being chased by His Majesty's Ship Milford had made the said Signal, and...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having appointed the Honble Captn [William Clement] Finch to be Captain of His Majestys Ship the Camel and Lieutt Benjn Hill to be Commander of the Bute Arm'd Ship their Lordships command me to send you their Commissions herewith and I am to desire you will please to deliver the same to them respectively And the established Fee for each Commission being £ 2...
Date: 19 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas we intend that you shall proceed in the Ship you command to the
Coast of Africa for the protection & security of the Trade of His Majesty's Subjects in those Parts; You are hereby required and directed to put to Sea with the first opportunity of Wind and Weather, and proceed with all possible dispatch to the Island of Madeira or Teneriffe where you are to take in a sufficient quantity...
Date: 11 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
January 1776
In Frenchman's Bay Sierraleona River
Monday 22d
A M punished John Cormick (Seaman) for Swearing, Sailmaker converting Foretopsail into a Mainsail for the St John.
Moderate and Cloudy,
Employed wooding and watering, fired a Shot to bring to a Sloop coming in, sent 13 Butts of Bread, 4 Butts and a hogshead of Wine, 4 Casks of Beef, 2 of Pork, 1 of Flow'r, 2 of Pease, 1 of...
Date: 28 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
By the Viscount Howe Vice Admiral of the White and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships & Vessels Employ'd & to be Employed &c in No America —
Pursuant to the Instructions I have received from the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the employment of his Majesty's Ship the Isis according to their further Intentions: You are hereby Authorised & requested to apply for, and...
Date: 8 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Memo
It being judged expedient for the better Conduct of the Convoy, that the Admiral's Signals should be repeated during the Night by the Two-decked Ships stationed on either part of the Fleet; Captain Cornwallis is therefore to repeat all Signals made by the Admiral during the Night until further Order accordingly.
Date: 31 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
For preserving greater Regularity in the Order of Sailing appointed for the Fleet;2 it has been the Admiral's Intention, when working to Wind ward, that the Ships of War stationed on the Starboard Quarter in the Form of Sailing delivered, should keep to the Westward and Northward of the Fleet; And those stationed on the Larboard Quarter, to the Eastward and Southward thereof, under...
Date: 3 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
By the Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral of the White and
Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels
employed and to be employed &c in North America.
Isaac Redman
Timy Cain
You are to receive onboard His Majesty's Ship under your Command the two Pilots named in the Margin.
It is intended, upon your joining the Raisonable, that Isaac Redman should be put into that Ship in place of...
Date: 31 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Roebuck having been on Shore by which Accident some of the Transports, that were to have gone under Captain Hammonds Convoy would otherwise be retarded in their Passage down Chesepeak Bay, I desire you will proceed with the Isis with all suitable expedition off of Swan Point, where you are to remain untill you are joined by the Ships named on the other side haveing onboard Provisions, &...
Date: 3 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Cadiz Packet, the Alert, Armed Schooner, & the Sloops Fanny & Charlotte, are intended to make a part of the Convoy that you have been already charged to Conduct to the Rendezvous of the Ships of War, at the Entrance of the Bay. And I am to desire you will acquaint the Senior Officer that these Vessels are to accompany the Victuallers, and Ordnance Ships, referred to in the Letter he...
Date: 5 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I would have you proceed with the Victuallers under your Convoy immediately to the Entrance of the Bay, agreeable to my Letter to you of this Morning, & if Captain Parker should be there deliver to him the letter you will receive herewith, but if he should be gone out, you will in that Case be pleased to Order such Ship, or Ships, to Convoy the said Victuallers to the Delaware as you may...
Date: 13 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
By the Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral
of the White, and Commander in Chief
of His Majestys Ships & Vessells
employed, and to be employed in
North America.
Having seen the Store Ships & Transports under your Convoy, three hundred Leagues into the Sea, Eastward of this Port; You are then to make the best of your Way for landing the Dispatches with which You have been charged, at the Port you...
Date: 9 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11