. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. ut Arnold was a man of infinite resource,energy, and courage. Some shipwrights andsailmakers were brought from the Americancoast, and with such materials as were at handhe set to work to build a navy for the defenceof the lake. He had, fortunately, seen service^ at sea, and the task was not wholly beyond hisexperience. When the month of October arrived Arnoldwas afloat with a fleet of fifteen vessels—thetwelve-gun schooner Jioja/ Savage, the ten-gunsloop Enterprise, the eight-gun- schooner Re-venge, the eight-gun galley T
. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. ut Arnold was a man of infinite resource,energy, and courage. Some shipwrights andsailmakers were brought from the Americancoast, and with such materials as were at handhe set to work to build a navy for the defenceof the lake. He had, fortunately, seen service^ at sea, and the task was not wholly beyond hisexperience. When the month of October arrived Arnoldwas afloat with a fleet of fifteen vessels—thetwelve-gun schooner Jioja/ Savage, the ten-gunsloop Enterprise, the eight-gun- schooner Re-venge, the eight-gun galley Trumbull, the eight-gun galley Congress, the eight-gun galleyWashington, the six-gun galley Lee, the five-gun gondola Spitfire, the five-gun gondolaConnecticut, the three-gun gondola New Haven,the three-gun gondola Providence, the three- 90 THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY gun gondola Philadelphia^ the three-gun gon-dola Jersey, the three-gun gondola New York,and the three-gun gondola Boston. Two or three of the namCsS of the vesselsbuilt for the impending strife may be worth. The Royal Savage. noting. The British named one of their me-dium-sized vessels the Loyal Convert. Arnoldnamed the largest of his the Royal named another for himself, but Ar-nold, less vain, went to the leaders of theAmerican army and to the towns of the nationfor the names of his ships. THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY 91 On the whole, the American fleet mountedeighty-eight guns to the of theBritish fleet, but they were inferior in weightof metal thrown, the largest being eighteen-pounders to the British twenty-four-pounders,while they needed 811 men for a full comple-ment, but had only 700. -And these were,from a man-o-warmans point of view, amiserable set; indeed, the mfen on board thefleet in general are not equal to half theirnumber of good men. It was not that theylacked good will or bravery ; it was that theywere landsmen and untrained in the workbefore them. On the other hand. Sir Guy C
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