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She was involved with a extreme collision with the English brig Confidence, cutting her in 50 percent, which sank With all the loss of her captain. The surviving crew members ended up carried back again to The usa, exactly where Constitution was place in standard once again, this time for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in January 1851.[181]Commemorative s

But one month afterwards, she achieved with one of them all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot with the legendary fight; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly destroyed that she was not worthy of towing to port.Since the formation of your US Naval Academy in 1845, there had