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But one thirty day period later, she achieved with one of these once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot of your legendary fight; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly destroyed that she wasn't well worth towing to port.The earliest acknowledged photograph of Constitution, undergo