The Launch
Subtitle: a federal song
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 48501
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Newburyport, Mass.?
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Merrimack (Ship)
Other titles: Ye sons of Columbia, your ardour display.
Notes: Song in twelve stanzas; first line: Ye sons of Columbia, your ardour display.

Commemorating the brig Merrimack, built at Newburyport, Mass., and launched on October 12, 1798. Cf. The Newburyport herald for October 12, 1798; also, Chapelle, Howard I. The history of the American sailing navy (New York, 1949), p. 158.

Text in two columns; printed area, including relief cut of a ship at head, measures 38.3 x 24.7 cm.

Bristol B10380

Shipton & Mooney 48501

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 3221