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10. “Continental Navy Schooner Hannah Running the Gauntlet of Two British Ships of War, Off Cape Ann September 5, 1775.” Image NH 56403. Courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command.


the signifi cance of this research was not just about attempting to more accurately interpret Hannah for model builders. Rather, it was to be reminded of how events of the past get recorded or ignored— the diffi culties and duties of present-day historians to glean from and judiciously evaluate what


available and has been argued. All the while striving to provide us a more correct understanding of and better appreciation for the lives of our forebears, their labors and their works and the bounty and challenges of their natural environment. Such assessments or judgements must always be approached within the context of those earlier times. Without that discipline, we students and artists cannot honestly off er a reliable representation of a vessel from the past.


T is report rests heavily on the work of some, and I is


believe, fairly disputes that of others. It demonstrates the responsibility of anyone gaining a reputation of authority to be particularly careful lest they enable those less diligent to proceed without question from faulty premises. It was surprising to observe how frequently a demonstrably reliable primary source can be incompletely considered or outright dismissed. Especially when it


inconveniently contradicts


modern romantic notions of what a vessel “should” have looked like.


Every serious work comes to completion through the generosity of friends, colleagues and strangers. T is one is no diff erent. More than seventy of you are listed by name, and by extension dozens more from your institutions who no doubt assisted in the background. Bless you all.


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