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America, Russia, Hemp,and Napoleon"Good Intent/' its fellow Paul Revere, as a Danish captive.Th e two of them, however, were soon released, and theyshowed a clean pair of heels to the whole British navy. Th e"Good Intent" arrived at Sandwich, Cape Cod, in Novemberof 1813. There is some mystery about the "Champlin." Onereport says she safely put into Ocracock, North Carolina.Another says she was cast away between Cape Fear and CapeLookout on the same coast. In either case, her crew and passengersall got ashore safely. 30Other American ships without licenses did not dare followthe example of the "Champlin" and "Good Intent." Those twowere swift dispatch schooners, built and rigged for speed, notapplebowed merchantmen built for spaciousness and rigged forslow dependability. Th e average stranded American merchantmen could never hope to elude British cruisers in the Baltic.The underwriters of Boston, who certainly knew the odds,demanded 30 to 40 per cent to insure the voyage of a merchantman hom e from Russia. 31Som e of these stranded American ships were sold for a pittanceto local merchants. The exquisitely misnamed "GoldenAge" ended that way. 32 Others possibly were hired by localinterests and sailed under the protection of foreign flags. 33Some just sat where they were and didn't venture out to seauntil the end of the war.Th e plight of the crews of the ships that were exiled for theduration of the war was not a happy one. The officers of theships could afford to pay for passage to the United States, andmany of them did. Some of the officers had to stay in theScandinavian and Russian ports through the war to look aftertheir employers' property. There were at least sixteen of these260