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Constellation and President arrived at Tripoli within the ninth with Samuel Barron in command; Preble was pressured to relinquish his command in the squadron to Barron, who was senior in rank.[eighty five] Structure was requested to Malta over the 11th for repairs and, whilst en route, captured two Greek vessels trying to provide wheat into Tripoli

She was involved with a severe collision While using the English brig Self esteem, slicing her in 50 %, which sank Along with the lack of her captain. The surviving crew associates were carried back to The us, where Constitution was place in ordinary once again, this time in the Brooklyn Navy Garden, in January 1851.[181]Structure entered dry dock