Through the efforts of Malcolm Bell, Jr., of Savannah, Georgia, and Frank Braynard, a search was made by Russian authorities at Leningrad for contemporary references to the ship. This work resulted in information as to how the side wheels were folded, the dimensions of the boilers, and some description of the cabins and fittings. As to the ship itself, the customhouse registered dimensions are of prime importance; they fix the over-all hull dimensions within reasonable limits. A vessel of 1818 measuring 98 feet 6 inches between perpendiculars would have been 100 to 104 feet long at rail. The type of ship represented by the _Savannah_ is well established. All references are in agreement that she was built as a packet ship--a Havre or transatlantic packet in most accounts. The packet ships listed by Albion[17] show that all the pioneer ships of the transatlantic Black Ball Line--which began operation with the sailing of the 424-ton _James Monroe_ on January 5, 1818--measured at least 103 feet 6 inches between perpendiculars. Two of the pioneer ships of the first Havre Line--which did not begin operation until 1822--were under 98 feet between perpendiculars. The second Havre Line began operation in 1823; of its four pioneer packets, two were purchased general traders measuring under 98 feet between perpendiculars. The coastal packets built between 1817 and 1823 were all under 100 feet between perpendiculars. It is apparent, then, that the size of the early packets did not indicate, with any degree of certainty, the trade in which they might be employed. Belief that the _Savannah_ was built as a Havre packet is based upon Stevens Rogers' statements, and her size obviously does not make this impossible; nevertheless, it seems highly improbable that she was built for the Havre service because no Havre line of packets had been organized as early as 1818 out of New York or Savannah so far as can be found. However, the matter is not of very great concern as it is probably true that the models of coastal and transatlantic packet ships were quite similar at the period of the _Savannah_. This statement is supported by the plan of a coastal packet built seven years after the _Savannah_.