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Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli on the 9th with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was compelled to relinquish his command with the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Structure was purchased to Malta on the eleventh for repairs and, whilst en route, captured two Greek vessels aiming to supply wheat into Tripoli.St

She was associated with a extreme collision with the English brig Assurance, reducing her in 50 percent, which sank With all the lack of her captain. The surviving crew users ended up carried back again to The us, in which Constitution was set in common Once more, this time at the Brooklyn Navy Lawn, in January 1851.[181]As Constitution settled in