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Her trouble-plagued voyage ongoing on 13 February when her rudder was ruined all through significant storms, causing a complete lack of steering Handle, Using the rudder smashing into the hull at random. Three crewmen went about the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another early morning, they rigged A brief steering method. Bad

But a single thirty day period later on, she satisfied with one of these once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot with the famous struggle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so badly weakened that she wasn't worth towing to port.Structure entered dry dock in 1992 for an inspection and small repa