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Constitution during the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers all over again using command to supervise a major refitting. It had been overhauled at a price just under $one hundred,000; nevertheless, Rodgers inexplicably did not clean up her copper sheathing, major him to later declare her a "sluggish sailer".B

incident in 1807 delayed her aid, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. StructureBut one month afterwards, she satisfied with one of these once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the first shot with the legendary struggle; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so badly harmed that she was n