THE OLD IRON SIDE DIARIES

She was linked to a significant collision While using the English brig Confidence, cutting her in 50 %, which sank Along with the loss of her captain. The surviving crew customers were carried back to The us, where Constitution was put in everyday Again, this time with the Brooklyn Navy Lawn, in January 1851.[181]off Brazil on December 29. A Britis

But one thirty day period afterwards, she satisfied with one of them once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot in the famous fight; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly damaged that she was not worth towing to port.The earliest acknowledged photograph of Constitution, going through r