Her trouble-plagued voyage continued on thirteen February when her rudder was harmed all through weighty storms, causing a total loss of steering Regulate, Together with the rudder smashing in to the hull at random. A few crewmen went about the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secur

But a single thirty day period later on, she fulfilled with one of these once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the main shot of the legendary battle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly weakened that she wasn't worthy of towing to port.