Her difficulty-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was ruined during large storms, causing a complete lack of steering Manage, Together with the rudder smashing in the hull at random. 3 crewmen went around the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The following morning, they rigged a temporary steering progra

But a person thirty day period later on, she satisfied with one of them again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot from the famous struggle; 20 minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly weakened that she wasn't well worth towing to port.As Constitution settled in again for the Academy, a series of upgr