Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli within the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was forced to relinquish his command in the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[85] Constitution was ordered to Malta on the eleventh for repairs and, although en route, captured two Gre

But one particular thirty day period later on, she fulfilled with one of them once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the primary shot with the famous struggle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly destroyed that she was not really worth towing