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5. “A Marblehead Schooner Wharfside”. Painting by Racket Shreve of Salem, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the artist.


Among many errors propagated as truth until 1970, even the vessel’s private ownership and the way it earned its living was misstated. We continued to erroneously report the schooner’s tons burthen, and to describe it as a vessel type which did not come into use until nearly one hundred years aſt er this Hannah was built. So little is reliably known about the ship that historians cannot even agree on its armament. Hannah served to implement Washington’s strategy for fewer than three months. Only fragments of its prior life have survived, and none which speak conclusively to its disposition once decommissioned.


If the intended purpose of this study has been achieved, then at least for this Hannah, our charge of “Advancing Ship Modeling T rough Research”


has been honored. But at the same time, we must be careful to present any new model or painting of Hannah as a personal interpretation. What I prefer to call “an informed speculation” of a vessel at an identifi ed time and, even a place in its history.


At this link to pages on the Nautical Research Guild web site: https://thenrg.org/journal/extended you will fi nd the complete report, organized into four parts:


Part One explains the origin of the drawings used by Harold Hahn and many others, to model Hannah. Why those drawings—and other reconstructions by William Avery Baker and John F. Millar—are off the


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