Captain Edward Preble requested to take command of Constitution in the letter dated fourteen May perhaps 1803[65] as his flagship and created preparations to command a different squadron for a 3rd blockade endeavor. The ship was recommissioned on twenty Might.[sixty six] The copper sheathing on her hull required to be replaced and Paul Revere suppl

incident in 1807 delayed her relief, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. Constitution" Preble demanded that the opposite ship detect herself as well as the stranger replied, "That is His Britannic Majesty's ship Donegal, 84 guns, Sir Richard Strachan, an English commodore." He then commanded Preble, "Mail your boat on board