OLD IRONSIDE - AN OVERVIEW

But a single thirty day period afterwards, she met with one of them yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot from the famous battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly ruined that she wasn't worth towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm, but by steeri

Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli over the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was forced to relinquish his command of your squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[85] Structure was ordered to Malta over the eleventh for repairs and, when en route, captured two Greek vessels attempting to provide wheat into Tripoli.As Struc