HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF OLD IRON SIDE

Constitution through the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers all over again getting command to oversee An important refitting. It had been overhauled at a cost slightly below $one hundred,000; even so, Rodgers inexplicably did not thoroughly clean her copper sheathing, leading him to afterwards declare her a

Captain Edward Preble ordered to get command of Structure in a letter dated 14 May possibly 1803[65] as his flagship and manufactured preparations to command a new squadron for a third blockade try. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May.[66] The copper sheathing on her hull required to get replaced and Paul Revere supplied the copper sheets nec