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built at Baltimore up to the time of the em- 

 bargo must have been comparatively few, 

 since, Jan. 1, 1808, the number of ships re- 

 ported on the stocks was only eight. 1 Bal- 

 timore, however, just previous to the War 

 of 1812, was making a specialty almost of 

 schooners which, under the name of "Balti- 

 more Clippers," were known all over the 

 world. 2 The four shipyards in Norfolk and 

 two in Portsmouth, Virginia, report in 

 1806: "There is no question about price, 

 only how soon can you get our vessels 

 launched." 3 



In the revival of ship-building which 

 followed the Revolutionary War, no other 

 city made such remarkable progress as 

 Philadelphia. What Pembroke was to 

 Massachusetts, Philadelphia was to the 

 United States. Although in 1793 Philadel- 

 phia built 8145 tons 4 of shipping, it was 



1 Newburyport Herald, Dec. 14, 1807. 



2 Of the 40 privateers that sailed from Salem in the 

 War of 1812, four were built in Baltimore. 



3 Forrest, Historical Sketches of Norfolk, p. 107. 



4 Annals of Philadelphia, p. 2336. 



