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But one month later, she met with one of these all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot of your famous struggle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she wasn't worthy of towing to port.The earliest acknowledged photograph of Constitution, undergoing repairs in 1

Her issue-plagued voyage continued on 13 February when her rudder was ruined in the course of major storms, causing a complete lack of steering Command, with the rudder smashing in to the hull at random. Three crewmen went in excess of the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The subsequent early morning, they rigged a temporary st