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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
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SQUIRREL, 24 Gutis, taken in Hand August 19, 1754, and launched
October ‘23, 17 55.
Length on the gun-deckLength of the keel for tonnageBreadth extremeDepth in the holdBurthen in tons
Strait oak timber
Compass ditto - »
Elm ditto
Fir ditto
Knees square
Ditto raking -
English oak plank of 4 inches
Ditto of 3
Ditto of 2y
Ditto of ‘2
Dantzic ditto of 3
Ditto of 3.
Elm ditto df~4.
Ditto of 3
Feet. Inches.
-
107
3
-
89
5^
-
29
1 T
-
9
2
40314 .
Loads.
Feet.
332
20
-
414
46
-
14
27
-
18
35
-
33
43
-
- 47
3
-
155
5
-
24
43
-
3
40
-
8
251-
-
1
42
-
- 29
43
1
■» 0
32
0
3
Total
- 1086
It had been the custom in many of the former wars to employ no inconsiderablenumber of vessels, as will be found on referring to the proper documents, which weredenominated, indiscriminately, sloops of war or small frigates : their force displayedmore variety than appeared in any other class whatever ; the most consequential ofthem mounting 18 guns, and being of nearly four hundred tons tonnage; the smal-lest carrying not more than 4 or 6, and scarcely exceeding fifty. At this time also,frigates, properly so called, mounting 36, 32, 30, or 28 guns each, were by nomeans uncommon : but ere the commencement of the rupture with Spain, these-
classes