Type

Letterbook

Title

Orders to execute coppering of frigate Constitution while on the stocks

Description

Orders to execute coppering of frigate Constitution while on the stocks before launching as high as light water mark, as soon as the bottom is prepared.

year created

1797

month created

07

day created

27

secondary author

War Office

sent from location

Philadelphia

recipient

George Claghorn

sent to location

Boston

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 Office.

recipient note

George Claghorn

notable person/group

George Claghorn
Josiah Fox
Claghorne
Navy Constructor
War Department
James McHenry
Secretary of War

notable location

Boston
War Office
Philadelphia

notable item/thing

frigate
coppering
frigate Constitution

notable idea/issue

frigate construction
Naval Act 1794

document number

1797072715055

page start

260
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