THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO OLD IRONSIDE

Captain Edward Preble ordered to get command of Constitution in a very letter dated fourteen May 1803[65] as his flagship and created preparations to command a different squadron for a 3rd blockade endeavor. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May.[66] The copper sheathing on her hull needed to be replaced and Paul Revere supplied the copper shee

Captain Isaac Hull, who were appointed Constitution's commanding officer in 1810, place to sea July twelve, without having orders, to circumvent being blockaded in port. His intention was to join the five ships of Rodgers' squadron." Preble demanded that another ship determine herself as well as stranger replied, "That is His Britannic Majesty's sh