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Her trouble-plagued voyage continued on 13 February when her rudder was broken through heavy storms, leading to a total loss of steering Management, While using the rudder smashing into the hull at random. Three crewmen went in excess of the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The subsequent early morning, they rigged A brief stee

But one particular thirty day period later on, she fulfilled with one of these again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot on the legendary battle; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly harmed that she wasn't really worth towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm