Request for New Frigate Model to Allow for New Pattern Kentledge [Ballast]
Document 1794Directs that another model of the frigate(s) to be built be sent to Commissioner of the Revenues Tench Coxe, to make allowance for a new pattern of kentledge [nautical scrap metal for ballast] for those frigates.
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Directs that another model of the frigate(s) to be built be sent to Commissioner of the Revenues Tench Coxe, to make allowance for a new pattern of kentledge [nautical scrap metal for ballast] for those frigates.
Date
08/01/1794
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Department
Collection
Document number
1794080115001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Joshua Humphreys
John Stagg
commissioner of revenues
Tench Coxe
Levi Hollingsworth
Notable locations
War Department
Notable items
kentledge
ballast
frigates
model
pattern