Who Designed The 6 Frigates Congress Needed?

Who Designed The 6 Frigates Congress Needed? Joshua Humphreys is generally credited as the designer of the six frigates, but Revolutionary War ship captains John Foster Williams and John Barry and shipbuilders Josiah Fox and James Hackett also were consulted. Who designed the frigate? The first ‘super-heavy frigates’, armed with 24-pounder long guns, were built