incident in 1807 delayed her reduction, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. ConstitutionBut just one month later, she met with one of them again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot in the famous fight; twenty minutes later, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly destroyed that she wasn't well

Captain Isaac Hull, who had been appointed Constitution's commanding officer in 1810, set to sea July twelve, devoid of orders, to stop staying blockaded in port. His intention was to affix the 5 ships of Rodgers' squadron." Preble demanded that the other ship determine herself and the stranger replied, "This is His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal