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Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli to the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was pressured to relinquish his command with the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Structure was requested to Malta about the 11th for repairs and, although en route, captured two Greek vessels trying to provide wheat into Tripol

She was involved in a critical collision Using the English brig Self-assurance, cutting her in 50 percent, which sank With all the loss of her captain. The surviving crew users have been carried back to The us, where by Structure was put in standard Once more, this time in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in January 1851.[181]Commemorative stamp, 150th anni