United States naval architect

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.

## Naval architects

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Name \- Years served

* Ships designed

Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801

* USS 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 Guerriere, 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 sloops-of-war, Cyane. and Levant, Delphine and Porpoise, 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 (for the Ottoman Empire), and the Ohio class 74s in 1820.

Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866

* USS Plymouth (DANFS), Saratoga and Portsmouth

## See also

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* Naval architecture

## References

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* 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