The History of American Sailing Ships, Volume 46 |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
FIGURES PAGE | 12 |
REVENUE CUTTERS Neglect of the Revenue | 176 |
Copyright | |
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Admiralty America's Cup American schooners American ships appearance ballast Baltimore Clipper barquentine boat bolts Boston bowsprit brig brigantine British Navy build builders built Captain captured carried carronades centerboard clipper-ship Coast colonial construction crew cruising deadrise depth of hold diam dimensions Doughty draught drop-keel early employed fast feet Figure fishing fore fore-and-aft French frigate gaff galley guns hull Humphreys Inboard inches Joshua Humphreys keel Lake later launched length letter-of-marque lines mast men-of-war merchant mizzen moulded beam naval architect Navy Yard Neufchâtel perpendiculars pilot-boat plank ports Portsmouth privateer probably purchased quarterdeck racing revenue cutter Revenue Marine Revolution Royal Navy Sail plan sailing ship sand-bagger schooner sharp Sheer ship-sloops slavers sloops sold spanker spars speed station stern strakes thick three-masted timber tion tonnage tons topmast topsail trade Underside United States Revenue vessels Virginia waterline weatherly yacht design York York Yacht Club