United States naval architect
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United States naval architects or ship designers introduced the faster and larger sailing frigates and sloop-of-wars of the early United States Navy which influenced the later merchant ships and clipper ships.
[edit] Naval architects
Name - Years served
- Ships designed
Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801
- Constitution
- United States
- Constellation
- Congress
- Hassan Bashaw, 1797 brig (DANFS)
Josiah Fox 1794 to 1801, 1804 to 1809
- Constitution and Constellation class frigates, Crescent, Chesapeake, John Adams, Portsmouth, Hornet and Wasp, Ferret (schooner), and revenue cutters
William Doughty 1813 to 1837
- President, Independence 74's, Peacock class, Erie class, Java and Guerrier, North Carolina 74's class, Brandywine 44's Class, brigs, revenue cutters, and Baltimore Clipper model.
Benjamin Hutton 1803
- brig Syren, schooners Vixen (DANFS) and Skjoldebrand (DANFS), Enterprise and Experiment
Samuel Humphreys 1813 to 1846
- Pennsylvania, Macedonian, Congress, Boston class sloop-of-wars, Cyane and Levant, Delphine and Propoise, Somers and Bainbridge, and Morris class revenue cutters
Francis Grice 1817 to 1859
- Truxton, Perry, and Albany
Henry Eckford 1817 to 1820
- all the War of 1812 Lake Ontario men-of-war, Superior (DANFS), General Pike (DANFS), Lady of the Lake (DANFS + DANFS), Mohawk (DANFS), schooner Grampus, Mahmoudieh (Turkey), and the Ohio class 74s in 1820.
Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866
- Plymouth (DANFS), Saratoga and Portsmouth
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Chapelle, Howard I. (1935). The History of American Sailing Ships. ISBN 0-517-00487-9, ISBN 1-56852-222-3
- DANFS Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
