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Her challenge-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was ruined all through major storms, leading to a total loss of steering Manage, Along with the rudder smashing to the hull at random. Three crewmen went above the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The subsequent early morning, they rigged a temporary stee

But one particular month later on, she achieved with one of them again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the primary shot with the legendary fight; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she wasn't well worth towing to port.Because the development in the US Naval Academy in 1845, there had been