In 1801 Revere opened America's first copper-rolling mill; he later made copper sheeting for this ship's hull
... Not only did copper sheathing help ships sail 
faster by keeping their hulls... [DOC] [TLE] Revereware.org [PAR] guide to the various lines of cookware produced or sold under the revere ware 
name, ... and rolled copper sheets (cladding, applied to the hulls of wooden ships
).