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Her difficulty-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was destroyed for the duration of large storms, resulting in a complete loss of steering Manage, with the rudder smashing to the hull at random. Three crewmen went around the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The subsequent morning, they rigged A short li

But one thirty day period later on, she achieved with one of them once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the first shot with the famous battle; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly damaged that she wasn't worth towing to port.The earliest known photograph of Constitution, undergoing repairs in 1858 Wit