United States naval architect

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
 * USS Constitution
 * USS United States (1797)
 * USS Constellation (1797)
 * USS Congress (1799)
 * Hassan Bashaw, 1797 brig (DANFS)

Josiah Fox 1794 to 1801, 1804 to 1809
 * Constitution and Constellation class frigates, Crescent, USS Chesapeake (1799), USS John Adams (1799), USS Portsmouth (1798), USS Hornet (1805 brig) and USS Wasp (1807), USS Ferret (1806) (schooner), and revenue cutters

William Doughty 1813 to 1837
 * President, USS Independence (1814) 74's, Peacock class, Erie class, USS Java (1815) and USS Guerriere (1814), USS North Carolina (1820) 74's class, USS Brandywine (1825) 44's Class, brigs, revenue cutters, and Baltimore Clipper model.

Benjamin Hutton 1803
 * brig USS Syren (1803), schooners USS Vixen (1803) (DANFS) and Skjoldebrand (DANFS), USS Enterprise (1799), and USS Experiment (1799)

Samuel Humphreys 1813 to 1846
 * USS Pennsylvania (1837), USS Macedonian (1836), USS Congress (1841), USS Boston (1825) class sloops-of-war, USS Cyane (1837). and Levant, Delphine and Porpoise, USS Somers (1842) and USS Bainbridge (1842), and Morris-class revenue cutters

Francis Grice 1817 to 1859
 * USS Truxton (1842), USS Perry (1843), and USS Albany (1846)

Henry Eckford 1817 to 1820
 * all the War of 1812 Lake Ontario men-of-war, USS Superior (1814) (DANFS), USS General Pike (1813) (DANFS), USS Lady of the Lake (1813) (DANFS + DANFS), USS Mohawk (1814) (DANFS), schooner USS Grampus (1820), Mahmoudieh (for the Ottoman Empire), and the USS Ohio (1820) class 74s in 1820.

Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866
 * USS Plymouth (1844) (DANFS), USS Saratoga (1842) and USS Portsmouth (1843)