Regarding Algerian Frigate
Document 1797Letter, discusses Algerine Frigate.
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Dear Sir
War Office July 19th 1797
You will find the inclosing Copy of your Inventory of Items necessary for the Algerine Frigate, to correspond with the original on Sent me, and I take this Opportunity to return you my thanks for your attention, and assistance in that Business; and also to inform you that I concur in the dimensions for a 36 [undecipherable] which you have surveyed, had the Algerine Frigate been Built agreeably to those dimensions, with her [undecipherable] her [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and her gunwales upon rather more tumble home. I view them with a great degree of Pleasure have looked upon her as a Very well proportioned, Handsome Vessel, and such as [undecipherable] to be a credit to the United States to / [undecipherable] to any Foreign Nation.
I am Sir
with every Sentiment of respect
your obt Sert
To
Capt James [undecipherable] [undecipherable],
Consul to the State & Lady of Tripoli
[undecipherable] My Henry [undecipherable]
Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, discusses Algerine Frigate.
Date
07/19/1797
Author
Recipient
Sent from
War Office
Repository
Collection
Document number
1797071915001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Captain James L Cathcart
Josiah Fox
Dey of Algiers
Notable locations
War Office
United States
Algeria
foreign nation
Tripoli
Notable items
copy of your inventory of stores
frigate
dimensions for a 36 [gun] frigate
Algerian frigate
great degree of pleasure
very well proportioned handsome vessel
credit to the United States
tribute
frigate congress

