The New England magazine . its owner with some valuable giftsas tokens of her regard for him. CaptainGeorge is also noted for his voyage to Hal-ifax in the brig Henry to procure the bodiesof Captain James Lawrence and Lieuten-ant A. C. Ludlow, killed in the fight be-tween the Chesapeake and the Shannon onJune 1, 1813. He projected the underta-king, and fitted out and provisioned thebrig entirely at his own expense. Rear-Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, a grandson NEW ENGLAND SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY 655 of Captain Jacob, served with much dis-tinction as chief of the Bureau of Naviga-tion during the
The New England magazine . its owner with some valuable giftsas tokens of her regard for him. CaptainGeorge is also noted for his voyage to Hal-ifax in the brig Henry to procure the bodiesof Captain James Lawrence and Lieuten-ant A. C. Ludlow, killed in the fight be-tween the Chesapeake and the Shannon onJune 1, 1813. He projected the underta-king, and fitted out and provisioned thebrig entirely at his own expense. Rear-Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, a grandson NEW ENGLAND SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY 655 of Captain Jacob, served with much dis-tinction as chief of the Bureau of Naviga-tion during the late Spanish-AmericanWar. B. W. Crowninshields administrationof the navy was an important one. Thenavy had just acquitted itself most glori- on the 74-gun ships Delaware, Ohio, andNorth Carolina, most noted vessels in theannals of the Old Navy. In 1815 the Boardof Navy Commissioners, which for morethan a quarter of a century played a mostimportant part in the conduct of our navalaffairs, was organized, with the elder John. George Cabot, Secretary of the Navy 1798 ously in the War of 1812, and for the firsttime it found itself in favor with both Con-gress and the people. Under Crowninshieldthe first American line-of-battleships wereplaced in commission, and an extensiveshipbuilding program was decided 1816 Congress authorized the construc-tion of nine line-of-battleships and twelve44-gun frigates. Work was shortly begun Rodgers as president. Isaac Hull, of Con-necticut, was one of its first 1815-16 a successful war was prosecutedagainst the Algerines, and shortly after itstermination the first expedition was sentagainst the West India pirates. After leav-ing the Navy Department, in 1818, Crown-inshield served several terms in 1830 he was defeated for re-election by 6^6 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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