Things You Never Knew About The Navy.

This page is for the serious navy researcher, but even the less serious researcher may find this page very interesting. This page tells how a Frigate is made, and how many men it takes to run her. This page also gives information on what the navy men ate and the cloths thy wore and much more.

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The following information is so long I decided to give the links to the information, for if I was to put it all here it would take two pages just for this one report. By reading this report you could almost build a Frigate yourself.

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Dimensions and sizes of materials for building a Frigate of forty-four guns, March 1794.

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Now that the ship is built it well need a crew, it will take 400 hundred men to run a 44 gunner and as it will be out for a year it well need stores for that period of time.

Men for a 44 gunner.

Commander---$75, per month and 6, rations a day.
4. Lieutenants---$40, per month each----12, rations a day.
2. Lieutenant of Marines….$30, per month each----4, rations per day.
1. Sailing Master---$40,per month------2, rations per day.
2. Master’s Mates---$20, per month----2, rations per day.
8. Midshipmen---$19, per month-----8, rations per day.
1. Purser---$40, per month----2, rations per day.
1. Surgeon---$50, per month---2, rations per day.
2. Surgeons Mates---$30, per month----4, rations per day.
1. Clark----$25, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Carpenter---$20, per month-----2, rations per day.
2. Carpenter’s Mates---$19, per month---2, rations per day.
1. Boatswain---$20, per month----2, rations per day.
2. Boatswain Mates---$19, per month---2, rations per day.
1. Yeomen of gun room---$18, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Gunner---$20, per month----2, rations per day.
11. Quarter Gunners---$18, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Coxswain---___, per month----1, ration per day.
1. Sail maker---$20, per month---2, rations per day.
1. Copper---$18, per month----1, ration per day.
1. Steward---_____, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Armorer---____, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Master of arms----___, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Cook---____, per month---1, ration per day.
1. Chaplain---$40, per month---2, rations per day.
120. Able seamen---$17, per month.
150. Ordinary seamen---$12, per month.
30. Boys---$8, per month.
50. Marines, including Sergeants and Corporals.
Total cost per month---$74, 009.

Provisions for four hundred men for 12, months.

350. Barrels of beef.
310. Barrels of pork.
1,220. Gallons of molasses.
144. cwt. Of rice.
1,930. Pounds of butter.
15, 000. Pounds of cheese,
1,220. Pounds of candles.
1,730. Gallons of vinegar.
240. Bushels of beans.
8,650. Gallons of rum.
1,444. Pounds of soap.
53. Barrels of flour.
49. Barrels of Indian meal.
1,022. Cwt. Of bread.
145. Gallons lamp oil.
730. Bushels of potatoes.
177. Cwt. Of salt fish.
Total cost for 12, months $28,271.89.
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Now that the ship has been built and the stores have been put on board and the crew is on board they will need uniforms, this list of clothing will be for the year of 1818.

1. Pea Jacket ( To serve two years )----2. Blue cloth jackets----2. Blue cloth trousers---2. White flannel shirts----2. White drawers ( under ware)----2. Pair yarn stockings----2. Black handkerchiefs----2. Duck frocks----2. Duck frocks trousers----4. Pair shoes----1. Mattress----2. Blankets----1. Hammock----1. Red vest----2. Hats.

While in a foreign stations it well be a necessity for purchasing slops ( cloths, uniforms), in winter they shall be: Blue jackets and trousers and red vest with yellow buttons with black hats. In summer the dress will be White jackets and trousers and vests.

Well now after all that work to get ready to sail they must be hungry, this menu will be from 1818, also.

Sunday: Half pound suet, 1 and a quarter pound Beef, Half pound flour, 14oz. Bread, 1oz. Sugar, Half pint Spirits.

Monday: 1pound pork, 14 oz. bread, 1oz. Sugar, Half pint peas, Half pint spirits.

Tuesday: 2oz. Cheese, 1 pound Beef, 14oz. Bread, 1 oz. Sugar, Half pint spirits.

Wednesday: 1 pound Pork, 14 oz. Bread, 1oz. Sugar, Half pint Rice, Half pint Spirits.

Thursday: Quarter pound of Suet, 1and a quarter pound Beef, Half pound Flour, 14 oz. Bread, 1 oz. sugar, Half pint Spirits.

Friday: 4 oz. Cheese, 14 oz. Bread, 2 oz. Butter, 1 oz. Sugar, Half pint Rice, Half pint Molasses, Half pint Spirits.

Saturday: 1 pound of Pork, 14 oz. Bread, 1 oz. Sugar, half pint Peas, Half pint Vineger, Half pint Spirits.
* 4 oz. Tea per week.

Ever wonder how many men it takes to run a ship? Well here is a list of a few.

A ship of war with 74 guns would take six hundred and fifty men to run.

A Frigate with 36, guns it takes three hundred and forty men.

A Frigate with 32, guns it takes Two hundred and sixty men.

A ship with 24 guns on the gun deck, with 6 or 8 guns on the quarter deck it takes Two hundred and twenty men.

A ship with 24, guns it takes One hundred and eighty men.

A vessel with 18 guns it takes One hundred and forty men.

A schooner no guns it takes seventy men.

A galley carries about twenty-eight men, ( ship propelled by oars or sails or both.)

A cutter with 10 guns it takes thirty-four men.

To build a frigate of 44 guns would have cost you $270,000.

To build a frigate of 36, would have cost you $218, 067.

I have the lists of the stores that was being stored in the naval station, although their to long to put here I will send a list on request. These list are very long and have just about anything you can think of on it. They list clothing, anchors, ropes, nails bolts and anything it takes to run a ship, the year 1821, The stations are:

Gosport Va.
Boston.
Portsmouth N. H.
Philadelphia.
New York.
Erie.
New Orleans.
Charleston S. C.
* Note for author Vol.1, p. 716-724, 1822, 788-797.
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Those of you who are interested in the Surgeon’s of the navy these two links will give you the lists of the Medicines & Instruments they used and their cost, the year 1823.

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