HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF OLD IRONSIDE

Captain Edward Preble ordered to choose command of Constitution inside of a letter dated 14 May perhaps 1803[65] as his flagship and designed preparations to command a brand new squadron for a third blockade endeavor. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May.[66] The copper sheathing on her hull required to be replaced and Paul Revere supplied the

incident in 1807 delayed her relief, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. Constitution" Preble demanded that the opposite ship identify herself plus the stranger replied, "This can be His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal, eighty four guns, Sir Richard Strachan, an English commodore." He then commanded Preble, "Deliver your b