United States naval architects or ship designers introduced the faster and larger sailing frigates and sloop-of-wars of the early United States Navy which influenced the later merchant ships and clipper ships.

Naval architects

Name - Years served Ships designed

Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801

Hassan Bashaw, 1797 brig (DANFS)

Josiah Fox 1794 to 1801, 1804 to 1809 Constitution and Constellation class frigates, Crescent, , , , and , (schooner), and revenue cutters

William Doughty 1813 to 1837 President, 74's, Peacock class, Erie class, and , 74's class, 44's Class, brigs, revenue cutters, and Baltimore Clipper model.

Benjamin Hutton 1803 brig , schooners (DANFS) and Skjoldebrand (DANFS), , and

Samuel Humphreys 1813 to 1846 , , , class sloops-of-war, . and Levant, Delphine and Porpoise, and , and Morris-class revenue cutters

Francis Grice 1817 to 1859 , , and

Henry Eckford 1817 to 1820 all the War of 1812 Lake Ontario men-of-war, (DANFS), (DANFS), (DANFS + DANFS), (DANFS), schooner , Mahmoudieh (for the Ottoman Empire), and the class 74s in 1820.

Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866 (DANFS), and

See also Naval architecture

References Chapelle, Howard I. (1935). The History of American Sailing Ships. , DANFS Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships