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Excerpt from Lives of the Warriors Who Have Commanded Fleets and Armies Before the Enemy, Vol. 3: Warrios of the Seventeenth Century; Part II
But when the newly-appointed Parliament Admirals went on board their ships of war, they found them so utterly out of condition, that it was the first requisite to constitute the three commanders into a Board of Commissioners of the Navy, to inquire into and amend the service. When the new ofiicials came to examine in detail the actual state of affairs, they found the disorders greater than ever they had apprehended. Few of the vessels were even sea worthy. Abuses existed every where to such a degree that the stores and arms were systematically stolen or purloined, and the wages of the sailors were insufficient and irregularly paid; so that a natural dissatisfaction existed throughout the service. The energy and character of the new Commissioners were soon evinced; for they examined with their own eyes both the dockyards and the ships. The idle, the vicious, and the disaffected of the crews were at once discharged, and the ablest commanders were searched out and employed as captains of the re spective vessels.
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