FASCINATION ABOUT OLD IRON SIDE

But just one month afterwards, she fulfilled with one of them yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot of the famous struggle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly weakened that she was not truly worth towing to port.The earliest acknowledged photograph of Constitution, undergoing

Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli around the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was forced to relinquish his command with the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Structure was requested to Malta about the eleventh for repairs and, while en route, captured two Greek vessels aiming to supply wheat into Tripo