Hello gents! I have enjoyed this thread But just a few historical comments about the Alliance. First, she did not in fact mount those larger guns ordered by Jones. Those were carried as cargo by Capt. Barry on a subsequent return trip in company with the ship Marquis de .Lafayette. Alliance continued to carry 12 and 9-pounders through the entire war.
Alliance was builtby Wm. Hackett and his cousin John Hackett in then Salisbury MA. Wm may have consulted ondesign of Hancock built downriver at Newburyportm but the Hacketts didnot build her. The Raleigh was built in Portsmouth New Hampshire by John's brother (Wm's cousin) James Hackett. The Essex was designed by William Hackett.