OLD IRONSIDE - AN OVERVIEW

But a single thirty day period later, she fulfilled with one of these once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the first shot from the famous battle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly harmed that she was not value towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm, but by ste

She was linked to a serious collision With all the English brig Self esteem, cutting her in half, which sank Along with the loss of her captain. The surviving crew members were being carried back again to America, where by Structure was place in normal Again, this time in the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Since the development of your