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Constitution in the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers again getting command to oversee a major refitting. It absolutely was overhauled at a price just below $100,000; however, Rodgers inexplicably didn't clean her copper sheathing, top him to later declare her a "slow sailer".Her mainmast break up from the

Captain Isaac Hull, who had been appointed Structure's commanding officer in 1810, place to sea July twelve, without orders, to stop becoming blockaded in port. His intention was to hitch the five ships of Rodgers' squadron.But 1 thirty day period later on, she achieved with one of them all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fire