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Her challenge-plagued voyage continued on thirteen February when her rudder was ruined through major storms, causing a complete loss of steering Regulate, While using the rudder smashing to the hull at random. Three crewmen went more than the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another early morning, they rigged a temporary steeri

She was involved in a intense collision Together with the English brig Self-confidence, chopping her in 50 percent, which sank With all the loss of her captain. The surviving crew associates ended up carried back again to The usa, exactly where Constitution was place in everyday once again, this time in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in January 1851.[181]