. Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review . 6. The Portsmouth was builtby Josiah Barker, Esq., Naval Constructor, now vessels are two of the six large sloops-of-war whose keelswere laid in 1843, and built by six different naval constructors,designed to develop the best models which their builders couldproduce. It will therefore be interesting for those who are ac-quainted with similar efforts, which were begun subsequent tothat time in the merchant yards of New-York, by private build-ers, and which gave to the commercial world the Rainbow, theHowqua, and the renowned Sea
. Monthly nautical magazine, and quarterly review . 6. The Portsmouth was builtby Josiah Barker, Esq., Naval Constructor, now vessels are two of the six large sloops-of-war whose keelswere laid in 1843, and built by six different naval constructors,designed to develop the best models which their builders couldproduce. It will therefore be interesting for those who are ac-quainted with similar efforts, which were begun subsequent tothat time in the merchant yards of New-York, by private build-ers, and which gave to the commercial world the Rainbow, theHowqua, and the renowned Sea Witch, and thus inauguratedthe era of clipper ships; to compare the altitude of naval per-fection with that of marine mechanism. Whether for burthenor for speed, these early clippers had no match among modernsloops-of-war, of any Navy whatsoever. We make these re-marks in no derogatory sense with respect to the very impor-tant improvements which our naval constructors were enabledto introduce in the construction of these vessels, to the credit of. ■
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