Approving Talbot's plan for preserving planks
Document 1795Pickering approves of Talbot's plan for preserving the planks in salt water and states that he assumes there are no worms in the water to injure the wood.
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War Office Nov. 18. 1795.
Sir
I have received your letter of the 16th. The plan of putting the plank for your frigate into salt water, is doubtless proper to be adopted for the reasons you mention. I presume you have no worms in your waters to injure it. The mode of securing it you and the Constructor will attend to.
I am respectfully for your obt Servant
T. Pickering
Capt. Silas Talbot
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Pickering approves of Talbot's plan for preserving the planks in salt water and states that he assumes there are no worms in the water to injure the wood.
Date
11/18/1795
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Document number
1795111800001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Silas Talbot
Notable locations
War Office
Notable items
planks
worms
wood