Type

Letterbook

Title

Letter from Henry Knox to Tench Coxe on sizes of beams and the issue of pine or oak

Description

Letter from Henry Knox to Tench Coxe on sizes of beams; lower and gun decks to be of white oak. Knox withdraws his objection to Joshua Humphreys and Captain Barry on the use of pine for beams for the 44 gun ship to be built in Philadelphia.

year created

1794

month created

10

day created

22

author

Henry Knox

recipient

Tench Coxe

in 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 (Requisitions on) Secretary of the Treasury and other Treasury Department Officials), June 1798-June 1824. (RG45)

in image

ZXA06

author note

No Signature, War Department.

recipient note

Tench Coxe

notable person/group

Tench Coxe
Henry Knox
Secretary of War
Assistant Secretary of Treasury
War Department
Captain John Barry
Joshua Humphreys

notable location

Philadelphia
War Department

notable item/thing

white oak
pine
beams
frigate
44 gun frigate
lower deck
gun deck
USS United States

notable idea/issue

oak or pine for beams
frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1794102270055

page start

86
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