Officers of the Navy

Description

There were four principal officer positions in the Navy Board when it began in 1660:

Treasurer — Sir George Carteret.

Comptroller — Sir Robert Slingsby (followed by Sir John Mennes when Slingsby died within a year).

Surveyor — Sir William Batten.

Clerk of the Acts — Pepys.

As well as the Officers, the Navy Board consisted of the Commissioners.

Last updated by Phil Gyford on 27 March 2008

Annotations

• - cgs on Tue 30 Oct 2007, 12:48am. Flag this

  for the interested:
  Navy officers Commissioned Sea Officers list 1660–1815
  These 12 volumes include all officers (lieutenant and above) who served in the Royal Navy between 1660 and 1815, annotated with the ships on which they served.
  http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.584

References in the diary

1660

Jul: 3, 12, 13, 26, 31
Sep: 5
Oct: 3, 12, 15, 31
Nov: 28, 30
Dec: 4, 5, 14

1661

Jan: 1, 22
Feb: 23
Apr: 20
May: 8, 11
Aug: 9
Oct: 26

1662

Feb: 5
Apr: 27
May: 31
Jun: 24
Oct: 30

1663

Mar: 21, 29
Jun: 30
Nov: 9
Dec: 21

1664

Dec: 29

1665

Mar: 27
Jun: 20
Sep: 13

1666

Feb: 14
Sep: 26
Oct: 4
Nov: 27

1667

Apr: 9
May: 29
Jun: 6, 24
Sep: 30
Oct: 1, 4
Nov: 30

1668

Jan: 2
Feb: 25, 28
Mar: 2, 5, 10
May: 19
Jun: 26, 29
Jul: 22
Aug: 17, 27
Sep: 7, 23, 25
Oct: 22, 26
Nov: 2

1669

Jan: 24