The Launch
Subtitle: a federal song.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 48501.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: [Newburyport, Mass.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Merrimack (Ship).; Broadsides.; National songs.; United States -- History -- 1797-1801.
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.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48501).