United States Navy
Rush carved figureheads for four of the original six frigates of the United States Navy: USS United States (Genius of the United States, 1796, whereabouts unknown), USS Constellation (Nature, 1797, whereabouts unknown), USS Chesapeake (Revolution, 1799, whereabouts unknown), and USS Congress (Goddess of Wisdom, 1799, whereabouts unknown). He designed the figurehead for a fifth original frigate, USS Constitution (Hercules, 1796, carved by John Skillin, whereabouts unknown, replaced by a figurehead of Andrew Jackson 1848), and may have designed that for the sixth, USS President (George Washington, 1800, carved by Rush's former apprentice Daniel N. Train, whereabouts unknown).
He also carved figureheads for the U.S. Navy frigates USS John Adams (John Adams, 1799, whereabouts unknown), USS Philadelphia (Hercules, 1799, burned 1804), and USS Potomac (Captain John Smith, 1822, whereabouts unknown); along with the gun-ships USS Franklin (Benjamin Franklin, 1815, U.S. Naval Academy Museum), USS Columbus (Christopher Columbus, 1819, whereabouts unknown), USS North Carolina (Sir Walter Raleigh, 1820, whereabouts unknown), and USS Pennsylvania (Hercules, 1824–37, attributed to Rush or his son John, whereabouts unknown).
Read more about this topic: William Rush
Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or navy:
“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusetts is one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“The traveler to the United States will do well ... to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)