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Constitution during the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers again getting command to oversee a major refitting. It had been overhauled at a cost just below $a hundred,000; even so, Rodgers inexplicably failed to cleanse her copper sheathing, leading him to later on declare her a "gradual sailer".might be capt

incident in 1807 delayed her aid, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. Structure" Preble demanded that another ship establish herself along with the stranger replied, "This can be His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal, eighty four guns, Sir Richard Strachan, an English commodore." He then commanded Preble, "Send your boat on