Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli on the 9th with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was compelled to relinquish his command of your squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Constitution was purchased to Malta around the eleventh for repairs and, although en route, captured two Greek vessels attempting to supply wheat int

She was involved with a significant collision Together with the English brig Confidence, reducing her in 50 percent, which sank with the lack of her captain. The surviving crew associates ended up carried again to America, in which Constitution was set in ordinary once again, this time within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in January 1851.[181]The captain