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But one thirty day period afterwards, she fulfilled with one of them yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot with the legendary battle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly ruined that she was not truly worth towing to port.Now the oldest U.S. warship even now in Fee, Structure continu