United States naval architects or ship designers introduced the faster and larger sailing
frigates and
sloop-of-wars of the early
United States Navy
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which influenced the later
merchant ship
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s and
clipper ships.
Naval architects
Name - Years served
* Ships designed
Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801
*
*
*
*
*
''Hassan Bashaw'', 1797
brigDANFS
Josiah Fox 1794 to 1801, 1804 to 1809
* ''Constitution'' and ''Constellation'' class frigates, ''Crescent'', , , , and , (schooner), and
revenue cutter
A cutter is a type of watercraft. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or bor ...
s
William Doughty 1813 to 1837
* ''President'', 74's, ''Peacock'' class, ''Erie'' class, and , 74's class, 44's Class,
brigs, revenue cutters, and
Baltimore Clipper
A Baltimore Clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper, the name is most commonly applied to two-maste ...
model.
Benjamin Hutton 1803
* brig ,
schooners
DANFS and ''Skjoldebrand''
, , and
Samuel Humphreys 1813 to 1846
* , , , class
sloops-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
, . and ''Levant'', ''Delphine'' and ''Porpoise'', and , and ''Morris''-class revenue cutters
Francis Grice 1817 to 1859
* , , and
Henry Eckford 1817 to 1820
* all the
War of 1812
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Lake Ontario
men-of-war
The man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century. Although the term never acquired a specific meaning, it was usually reserved for a ship armed w ...
,
DANFS,
,
,
, schooner , ''Mahmoudieh'' (for the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
), and the class
74s in 1820.
Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866
*
DANFS, and
See also
*
Naval architecture
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References
* Chapelle, Howard I. (1935). ''The History of American Sailing Ships''. , {{ISBN, 1-56852-222-3
* DANFS
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to ...
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