#marryat is probably influenced not only by his experience with war of 1812 privateers

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When we last mentioned Edward Templemore, we stated that he was a lieutenant of the admiral's ship on the West India station, commanding the tender. Now the name of the tender was the Enterprise; and it was singular that she was one of two schooners built at Baltimore, remarkable for their beauty and good qualities: yet how different were their employments! Both had originally been built for the slave-trade: now one hoisted the English pennant, and cruised as the Enterprise; the other threw out the black flag, and scoured the seas as the Avenger.

— Frederick Marryat, The Pirate

Two-masted schooner off Gibraltar, Julius Prömmel, 1834. With her two raked masts, this British schooner has the same lines as a Baltimore clipper.