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She was linked to a critical collision Using the English brig Assurance, reducing her in half, which sank With all the loss of her captain. The surviving crew members were being carried back again to The us, wherever Constitution was place in normal Yet again, this time at the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Constitution entered dry dock

Her difficulty-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was destroyed through weighty storms, leading to a total lack of steering Management, with the rudder smashing in the hull at random. Three crewmen went over the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another early morning, they rigged A brief steering program