By: Michael Costagliola The 14-gun brig Fair American, idescribed as a Bermuda-built brig, meaning either made in Bermuda or to Bermuda-sloop lines, about 1776, and...
By: Michael Costagliola An American merchant brig designed and built by Wm Webb at New York, 1853. She served the “Triangular Trade” from New York/Boston...
By: Michael Costagliola "Baltimore clipper" schooner, c 1821, US privateer of 10 guns probably built in Philadelphia. This type ship were the models for later...
By: Michael Costagliola SWIFT was a 10-gun, late Revolutionary War privateer brig, precursor of the famous Baltimore clipper. Built on the Chesapeake Bay ca.1778, she...