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Captain Edward Preble requested to get command of Constitution in the letter dated 14 May perhaps 1803[65] as his flagship and made preparations to command a different squadron for a 3rd blockade attempt. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May.[sixty six] The copper sheathing on her hull needed to get replaced and Paul Revere equipped the copper

Constitution throughout the chase Structure was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers yet again taking command to supervise A significant refitting. It absolutely was overhauled at a cost just below $a hundred,000; nonetheless, Rodgers inexplicably didn't clean her copper sheathing, foremost him to afterwards declare her a "slow sail