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Constitution during the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers again getting command to oversee An important refitting. It had been overhauled at a price just below $a hundred,000; having said that, Rodgers inexplicably failed to clean up her copper sheathing, major him to afterwards declare her a "slow sailer".

Hull departed for France on 5 August 1811, transporting The brand new Ambassador Joel Barlow and his relatives; they arrived on one September. Hull remained in close proximity to France as well as Netherlands in the Wintertime months, frequently Keeping sail and gun drills to help keep the crew All set for probable hostilities With all the British.