Estimate of Ship of War to Be Built at Portsmouth, N.H.
Document 1798Estimate of Ship of War to be built at Portsmouth.
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Type
Letterbook Copy
Description
Estimate of Ship of War to be built at Portsmouth.
Date
02/26/1798
Author
Sent from
Portsmouth
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798022690002
Page start
1
Notable persons
James Hackett
builders
Notable locations
Portsmouth
Portsmouth, N.H.
New Hampshire
Notable items
New England timber beams and decks of yellow pine at the present price of materials and labor
dollars
masts
yards
tops
naval stores
iron or copper work together with boats
joiner's work
carved work
completed in ten months with a good gang of sixty men
if government should seek it to have the live oak timber used in the above ship
builder
price of white oak timber
ship can be built
knees & plank belonging to government
ship of war calculated to carry thirty eight guns
tons
frigate construction
white oak timbers
guns
yellow pine
frigate Crescent