By 1546 there was a permanent committee, the Navy Board, for the management of naval administration.

A private word with him can be worth ten urgent letters from the Navy Board!

Six months later he was appointed to a post on the Navy Board at an annual salary of £250.

Perhaps the Secretary of the Navy Board was right - he had spent too long on active service.

The right to request a full Navy Board of Inquiry.

He'd never been any good at lying, and he wasn't going to start now with the Chief of the Navy Board.

Surgeons were ranked by the Navy Board based on their training and social status.

The Navy Board was responding by sending an advisory mission.

At his request the Navy Board exchanged her 9-pounders for 32-pounder carronades.

His press, built for the Navy Board, was 34 ft long and could exert a force of 1,000 tons.