Merchant Brig of the United States Drying Her Sails
From a series entitled, “A Collection of All Types of Ships-of-War and Merchant Ships.” Though a merchant ship, like Essex of Salem, privately owned ships of neutral countries were frequently accused of supplying the enemy by both the French and the British in the Napoleonic Wars.
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