But just one thirty day period later on, she satisfied with one of them once more -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the initial shot in the famous fight; 20 minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly weakened that she wasn't value towing to port. The capt

will be the oldest commissioned warship on earth nonetheless afloat. Nicknamed “Aged Ironsides,” she is these days berthed in Boston and is recognized as “America’s Ship of Point out.” Her story illuminates A great deal about the U.S. Navy during the country’s