p. 100: “Of course, as an Englishman, I paid a visit to the navy-yard of Philadelphia, which struck me as much superior to that of New York, in neatness, arrangement, and in the greater quantity of stores that it appeared to possess; having neither seen shot nor guns on visiting the latter. It lies on the Delaware, about a mile from the city, and contains — for which I went especially to see it — the greatest naval curiosity in the United States, or perhaps in the world : being the largest line-of-battle ship that has ever been built in any country. She is called the Pennsylvania. I am not quite sure, at the same time, that there is not one still larger, by some few inches, belonging to the Turks; but as the latter do not know quite so well as the Americans how to command their navy, it does not much signify should it be true. However, be this as it may, the Pennsylvania is certainly a superb ship, and her timbers are magnificent. She has four decks, and is intended to carry from 140 to 150 guns, and 1400 men—having counted, myself, 160 port-holes, but which I afterwards understood from a professional gentleman were not all of them pierced for guns. To give you some idea of her enormous size, I must state her
p. 101: dimensions, which are the following: her entire length is 220 feet; her breadth of beam, 57 feet; and from the upper deck to the keel, in depth, 45 feet. That this splendid specimen of naval architecture may remain on the stocks, a mere gazing wonder, till her timbers drop from her in absolute decay, is my most sincere wish — founded on the best, because the most charitable, of all reasons ; namely, that no future time may ever behold the two nations again engaged in hostile collision with each other. In this case, the proud Pennsylvania will never, most probably, “gallantly ride the waves,” to hurl the thunderbolts of war, and thus break a peace which I trust will be eternal.”
Source
Henry Tudor. Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of real del Monte, the United States, and the British colonies: with an excursion to the island of Cuba. Vol 1. London, 1834.
