Word: guerry
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...ports this summer. Thousands watched in silence as the old frigate was towed away by the mine sweeper Grebe, her brand-new sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because...
...orders, the old frigate was first launched not far from where a naval battery of 21 guns boomed out a salute last week. Paul Revere supplied her original sheathing and brass work. Today there remains only 15% of the vessel that fought the Barbary pirates, defeated the Guerrière in 1812, earned the name of "Old Ironsides" from the way her planking withstood shot. When the Navy prepared to junk her in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his "Ay, Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down," caused her to be commissioned a second time in 1833. Her third reconstruction came...
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