Give Me a Fast Ship

by Tim McGrath

  Independence Seaport Museum

  This early-nineteenth-century London engraving shows Commodore Collier’s fleet blasting away at Saltonstall’s ships on the last day of the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition.

  New York Historical Society

  Gustavus Conyngham’s captain’s commission: signed by John Hancock, given to him by Benjamin Franklin, and taken from him by the French.