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Her challenge-plagued voyage ongoing on 13 February when her rudder was broken in the course of weighty storms, leading to a total lack of steering Regulate, Along with the rudder smashing in the hull at random. 3 crewmen went in excess of the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. The following morning, they rigged A brief steering

Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli around the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was pressured to relinquish his command in the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[85] Structure was ordered to Malta around the eleventh for repairs and, even though en route, captured two Greek vessels trying to produce wheat into Tripoli