![]() We have exciting things going on in the museum. We’re so grateful of course for our longstanding partnership with FPRI. The lecture is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Family Foundation and the Satell Family Foundation. And while many successful privateers were corporate projects, backed by wealthy men, it would be a shame to overlook middle-class mariners such as Salem’s Band of Brothers, for whom patriotism and necessity went hand in hand.Editor’s Note: On May 24, FPRI’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall discussed the 1812 war in the fifth annual Ginsburg-Satell Lecture on American Character and Identity at the Museum of the American Revolution. But there is no doubt that its hundreds of privateers helped obtain an honorable peace. It can hardly be said that the United States “won” the War of 1812. ![]() Other Fame owners served as privateer captains and militia officers and had a wealth of adventures both during and after the war. Captain Webb held his share in Fame almost to the end, survived the war, and lived to the age of 83. Her original ownership, the band of brothers, went their separate ways. As the war wound on, shares in Fame were bought and sold, and she sailed under eight different captains, with crewmen from Salem, Marblehead, and Downeast Maine. But her maiden cruise was the only time she set sail with her owners as crew. Fame would make eleven more cruises before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814.
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