To Thomas Jefferson from Navy Department, 8 January 1808
[on or before 8 Jan. 1808]
Gun boats under the last Law.
Building Materials provided before the passage of the Law. | { | New York | 20 | + | |
Philaa. | 20 | ø | |||
Balte. | 10 | ₶ | |||
Norfolk | 10 | ₶ | |||
Wilmington N.C. | 3 | # | |||
Charleston | 10 | # | 73 | ||
Contracted for | at Portland | 10 | ø | ||
at New York | 3 | + | 13 | ||
Proposed build. | at Salem Beverley &c. | 12 | ø | ||
at Portsmouth N.H. | 4 | ø | |||
at Newbury Port | 3 | ø | |||
in Connecticut with Van deurcer & others | 8 | ø | |||
in Rhode Island with Cross & others | 8 | ø | |||
at Havre de Grace Md | 1 | ø | |||
St. Michael’s E. S. Md | 4 | ø | |||
in Virga. with Patterson & Tabb | 4 | ₶ | |||
in North Carolina—at Edenton & Ocracock | 5 | # | |||
In Georgia | 5 | # | |||
At the Navy Yard here | 10 | ø | 64 | ||
150 |
to be built in | Philadelphia | 20. |
Charleston | 10 | |
Wilmington N.C. | 3 |
feet | in. | ||
+ | length between perpendiculars | 47. | 4 |
breadth of beam | 18. | — | |
depth of hold | 5. | 6. | |
ø | length between perpendiculars | 50. | |
breadth of beam | 17. | ||
depth of hold | 4. | 6 | |
₶ | length between perpendiculars | 55. | |
breadth of beam | 16 | ||
depth of hold | 5. | 1 | |
# | length of keel between perped. | 60. | |
breadth of beam | 16. | 6 | |
depth of hold | 6. | 6 |
23 + | will draw 4 feet 2 to 4 inches— |
80 ø | will draw —4— 6—to 9— |
24 ₶ | will draw not exceeding 4—2 |
23 # | will draw 5 feet 6 in.— |
150— |
each of these boats can carry one long 24 or 32 pd iron cannon.
DLC.