Constitution throughout the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers once again taking command to supervise A significant refitting. It had been overhauled at a price just under $100,000; nonetheless, Rodgers inexplicably did not clear her copper sheathing, foremost him to afterwards declare her a "sluggish sailer

incident in 1807 delayed her reduction, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. Structure" Preble demanded that the other ship detect herself and the stranger replied, "This is often His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal, eighty four guns, Sir Richard Strachan, an English commodore." He then commanded Preble, "Ship your boat on