She was associated with a intense collision While using the English brig Self confidence, slicing her in half, which sank with the loss of her captain. The surviving crew customers were carried back again to The us, in which Constitution was place in common Again, this time with the Brooklyn Nav

But one particular thirty day period later on, she satisfied with one of them once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot of the legendary struggle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so badly damaged that she was not worth towing to port.