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Her trouble-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was harmed throughout major storms, resulting in a total lack of steering Handle, While using the rudder smashing into the hull at random. Three crewmen went around the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another early morning, they rigged A brief steering sys

But just one month afterwards, she achieved with one of them once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the very first shot of your famous fight; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly broken that she was not worth towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm, but by steering