THE OLD IRON SIDE DIARIES

Her challenge-plagued voyage ongoing on thirteen February when her rudder was ruined through heavy storms, leading to a total loss of steering Command, While using the rudder smashing in the hull at random. Three crewmen went more than the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another morning, they rigged a temporary steering system

But just one thirty day period afterwards, she met with one of these all over again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot of your famous struggle; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so badly destroyed that she was not worth towing to port.The captain traveled to Virginia and performed his possess study of