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Captain Edward Preble requested to consider command of Structure within a letter dated fourteen Could 1803[sixty five] as his flagship and made preparations to command a different squadron for a third blockade attempt. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May well.[66] The copper sheathing on her hull necessary to be replaced and Paul Revere equip

Captain Isaac Hull, who had been appointed Constitution's commanding officer in 1810, set to sea July 12, without orders, to circumvent currently being blockaded in port. His intention was to hitch the five ships of Rodgers' squadron.could be captured. Hull damp his sails to catch all gusts, put out boats to tow the ship, as well as utilized the ke