By: Donald McNarry, FRSA This tranquil waterline portrait depicts this small gallant ship-rigged American privateer of 1781, having been built for a Salem, Massachusetts owner....
By: William E. Hitchcock Massachusetts Privateer, probable built at Plymouth, 1781. Owned by John Andrews and other Salem Merchants, 18 - 20 guns. This midget...
By: William E. Hitchcock The 16-gun privateer ship Rattlesnake was built at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1779 or 1780 to designs by the maverick designer John...
By: William E. Hitchcock Illustrious 20-gun Salem, Massachusetts privateer was constructed by maverick naval architect John Peck as a ‘miniature frigate’ at Plymouth between 1779...