by aptivaboy » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:47 pm
Simply put, you can't. The 44s were built to a very different design than Chespaeake. Her dsigner, Josiah Fox, was English, actually, and heavily influenced by the Royal Navy;s search for numbers over sizeinf rigate construcion. Therefore, he believed in smaller, handier frigates rather than the larger US-designed Humphrey's frigates. As a result, he radically modified the 44's design in making Chesapeake. Some would say that the design wasn't even modified, but was actually a clean sheet design, generally smaller even than Congress and Constellation. Her plans in the National Maritime Museum, taken off after her capture, seem to support this. By all accounts, Chesapeake was a pretty frigate, and reasonably fast and weatherly, but a very different vessel than the 44s.
Bob
Simply put, you can't. The 44s were built to a very different design than Chespaeake. Her dsigner, Josiah Fox, was English, actually, and heavily influenced by the Royal Navy;s search for numbers over sizeinf rigate construcion. Therefore, he believed in smaller, handier frigates rather than the larger US-designed Humphrey's frigates. As a result, he radically modified the 44's design in making Chesapeake. Some would say that the design wasn't even modified, but was actually a clean sheet design, generally smaller even than Congress and Constellation. Her plans in the National Maritime Museum, taken off after her capture, seem to support this. By all accounts, Chesapeake was a pretty frigate, and reasonably fast and weatherly, but a very different vessel than the 44s.
Bob