Report on the State of Naval Equipment and Frigate Construction to House Committee
Document 1796Estimate is signed by Humphreys, Francis, Truxton and Fox. Exclusive of men and provisions, estimate $453,272 to complete six frigates. Estimate $120 per ton. Quantities listed as most essential and already delivered and what is deficient, by locations of the six ship yards: Philadelphia; New York; Boston; Norfolk; Baltimore; Portsmouth New Hampshire;
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Estimate is signed by Humphreys, Francis, Truxton and Fox. Exclusive of men and provisions, estimate $453,272 to complete six frigates. Estimate $120 per ton. Quantities listed as most essential and already delivered and what is deficient, by locations of the six ship yards: Philadelphia; New York; Boston; Norfolk; Baltimore; Portsmouth New Hampshire;
Date
01/13/1796
Author
Recipient
Repository
Document number
1796011337055
Page start
149
Note
Comprises documents No. 1-5
Notable persons
Tench Francis
Captain Thomas Truxton
Truxtun
Joshua Humphreys
Josiah Fox
House of Representatives
Committee
carpenters
minister
naval agents
agents
purveyors
Secretary of War
Timothy Pickering
constructor
clerk
Notable locations
England
Navy Yards
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Norfolk
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Baltimore
Europe
James River
Notable items
report
naval equipment
frigate
actual cost
ordnance
ordnance stores
powder
provisions
tonnage
account of monies
44 gun frigate
36 gun frigate
copper
materials
delivered
wanting
white oak timber
beams
white oak plank
castings
ledges
cables
live oak
frame
like oak knees
cedar
gun deck beams
upper deck beams
lower deck beams
deck beams
plank
pitch pine plank
carlengs
ledges
heel
locust trennails
trennel
treenail
iron
sheathing
bottom
nails
stores
estimate
contracts
public stores
ship
vessels