THE OLD IRON SIDE DIARIES

She was associated with a critical collision While using the English brig Confidence, cutting her in 50 %, which sank With all the lack of her captain. The surviving crew customers had been carried back to America, where Constitution was place in ordinary Yet again, this time with the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Commemorative stamp,

But one month later on, she achieved with one of these yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot with the legendary struggle; 20 minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly broken that she wasn't really worth towing to port.The captain traveled to Virginia and carried out his very own study on