IMPROVED METHOD OF PAINTING* CANVAS. g*}^ 



SIR, 



I HAVE stated to the Admiralty Board the several im- Testimony to 

 provements made by me in paint work, and in consequence the superiority 

 thereof they have desired the principal officers of our yard canvas. 

 to report to them on their merits. The officers, who have 

 for more than twelve months past daily had the execu- 

 tion of them under their inspection, have recommended the 

 same in stronger terms, and the advantages thereof, to the 

 lords commissioners, beyond my statement. I have in- 

 closed to you a certificate relative to the ship Hibernia, 

 which arrived here the 12th of May last, and for which 

 vessel I painted a set of hammock cloths, containing thir- 

 teen hundred yards of canvas, in June 1806, after my new 



method. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient humble Servant, 



Wm. ANDERSON. 



Portsmouth, Nov. 27, 1807. 



The foregoing letter was accompanied with a certificate 

 from Captain Hicks, and William Trounsell, carpenter of 

 his majesty's ship Hibernia, stating, that the hammock 

 cloths on board the said vessel were painted in June 1806, 

 after Mr. William Anderson's method; that they were 

 pliable, and did not crack, nor the paint peel off, and 

 were, in their opinion, preferable to those painted in the 

 common way. 



SIR, 



I BEG leave to trouble you with a farther certificate re- 

 lative to my method of painting canvas. 



I have also discovered a lead coloured paint, highly ad- 

 vantageous for all iron-work exposed to the weather, and 

 preferable to that commonly made from white lead and 

 black. The preparation is as follows : 



Process for Lead Coloured Paint on Iron. 

 I take a fire shovel, and put a small quantity of com- l^ad coloured 

 mon litharge thereon, and place it over the fire. I then pauu for uon * 

 take a small portion of flour of brimstone between my 

 fingers, and scatter it over the litharge, when the same is 



sufficiently 



