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grog at eleven and four thrown in. Rum 

 was furnished at all the shipyards and the 

 cost entered into the expense account of 

 the vessel. 1 



The number of ship carpenters employed 

 in the yards of the United States in the 

 early part of the nineteenth century, is 

 nowhere given, but it is possible by com- 

 parison to make a fair estimate. In 1811 

 there were built in the United States 

 146,691 tons of shipping. 2 The number of 

 ship-wrights employed in Great Britain 

 in 1807 is given as 8928, exclusive of 

 calkers. 3 The entire tonnage built in Great 



The ship carpenters who built the frigate "Essex" 

 received a dollar and fifty cents, and the common labor- 

 ers a dollar, a day. [N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, 1868.] 



In 1805 ship carpenters working on English naval 

 vessels received 7s. 3d. a day. [Naval Chronicles, 1805, 

 p. 497.] 



1 The "Lady Gallatin," built in 1813, was charged with 

 $120, the cost of eighty gallons of rum and gin furnished 

 from March 22 to Aug. 25. Ship-building on the 

 North River, p. 178. 



2 Pitkin, p. 430. 



8 Naval Chronicles, 1805, p. 497. 



