THE OLD IRON SIDE DIARIES

But one month later on, she satisfied with one of these once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot from the famous fight; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly ruined that she wasn't well worth towing to port.Because the formation of your US Naval Academy in 1845, there had been a growing n

Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli over the 9th with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was pressured to relinquish his command of the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Structure was requested to Malta about the 11th for repairs and, even though en route, captured two Greek vessels aiming to provide wheat into Tripo