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She was involved with a serious collision Using the English brig Self esteem, cutting her in 50 %, which sank with the lack of her captain. The surviving crew members have been carried back again to America, where by Structure was set in normal Yet again, this time on the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Now the oldest U.S. warship still

As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman had recommended that Structure really should sail to celebrate her 200th anniversary in 1997 in lieu of staying towed. The proposal was permitted, although it had been regarded as a significant enterprise due to the fact she had not sailed in above a hundred years.The captain traveled to Virginia and carri