United States naval architects or ship designers introduced the faster and larger sailing frigates and sloop-of-wars of the early

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which influenced the later

merchant ship A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are ...

s and clipper ships.

Naval architects

Name - Years served * Ships designed Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801 * * * * * ''Hassan Bashaw'', 1797 brig
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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

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model. Benjamin Hutton 1803 * brig , schooners
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, , 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

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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 ...

,
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,

,

, schooner , ''Mahmoudieh'' (for the

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), and the class 74s in 1820. Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866 *
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, and

References

* Chapelle, Howard I. (1935). ''The History of American Sailing Ships''. , {{ISBN, 1-56852-222-3 * DANFS

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Naval architects

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