Type

Letterbook

Title

Letter from the War Office to Captain James Sever

Description

Discusses the procedure of using salt water and dry salt to preserve ship timbers. Arrival of copper expected shortly. Discussion on the sending of the wrong sized copper bolts. Sever's pay will be remitted without delay.

year created

1795

month created

05

day created

14

secondary author

Timothy Pickering

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

Captain James Sever

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, from War Department

recipient note

James Sever.

notable person/group

Captain James Sever
James Hackett
Timothy Pickering
Superintendent
Naval constructor
Joshua Humphreys
Mr Sheaff
Sheaffe

notable location

War Department
Philadelphia
New York
Portsmouth New Hampshire

notable item/thing

white oak timber
salt water
frigate
beams
copper
dry salt
auger
auger holes
pay
USS Congress

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794
preservation of frigate timbers

document number

1795051415355

page start

113
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