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The Act to Provide a Naval Armament Page two of the Act to Provide a Naval Armament. The Act to Provide a Naval Armament (Sess. 1, ch. 12, 1 Stat. 350), also known as the Naval Act of 1794, or simply, the Naval Act, was passed by the 3rd United States Congress on March 27, 1794, and signed into law by President George Washington. [1]
The Naval Act of 1794 had specified 36-gun frigates in addition to the 44s, but at some point the 36s were re-rated as 38s. [67] Their "ratings" by number of guns were meant only as an approximation. [68] Ships of this era usually had no permanent battery of guns, as modern navy ships carry.
She was one of the original six frigates whose construction was authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young navy's capital ships . Chesapeake was originally designed as a 44-gun frigate, but construction delays, material shortages and budget problems caused builder Josiah Fox to alter his design ...
In the years leading up to the Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with the revolutionary French Republic involving disputes over U.S. trading and shipping with Britain, the U.S. Congress passed the 'Act to provide for a Naval Armament' on March 27, 1794. The act provided for the commissioning of six frigates for the Navy.
Armament 30 × 24-pounders (11 kg), 14 × 12-pounders (Quasi War), [ 7 ] 32 × long 24-pounders (11 kg), 24 × 42-pounder (19 kg) carronades (War of 1812) USS United States was a wooden- hulled , three- masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 .
The Naval Act of 1794 had specified 36-gun frigates. However, Congress and her sister-ship Constellation were re-rated to 38s because of their large dimensions, being 164 ft (50 m) in length and 41 ft (12 m) in width. [4] [5] [Note 1] The "ratings" by number of guns were meant only as an approximation, and Congress often carried up to 48 guns. [20]
The ship is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [11] [Note 1] The ship was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
Congress responded with the Naval Act of 1794. [7] The Act provided funds for the construction of six frigates to be built in six different East Coast ports; however, it included a clause stating that construction of the ships would cease if the United States agreed to peace terms with Algiers.