A REVIEW OF OLDIRONSIDE

But one month afterwards, she achieved with one of them once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot with the famous battle; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she wasn't worth towing to port.The captain traveled to Virginia and conducted his possess study of your ship's requ

She was linked to a serious collision While using the English brig Self-confidence, chopping her in half, which sank with the loss of her captain. The surviving crew associates were carried back again to The us, where by Structure was set in normal Once more, this time for the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Commemorative stamp, 150th an