On retaining the frigate riders and the issue of hogging

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Discusses the issue of stress on the keel and the use of riders and whether the frigate gets hogged. Asks that Captain Truxton retain two thirds of the riders proposed.

Date

11/02/1796

Recipient

Captain Thomas Truxtun

Sent from

Philadelphia

Repository

National Archives and Records Administration

Collection

Letters Sent by the Secretary of the Navy to Federal Executive Agents (Letters to President, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Letters To

Document number

1796110215055

Page start

195

Notable persons

Captain Thomas Truxton
Truxtun
Secretary of War
James McHenry
War Department
Joshua Humphreys
War Office

Notable locations

War Office
Philadelphia
Baltimore

Notable items

keel
riders
frigate
hogged
USS Constellation