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She was involved in a severe collision While using the English brig Self-assurance, chopping her in half, which sank With all the loss of her captain. The surviving crew associates have been carried again to The us, exactly where Constitution was put in ordinary once again, this time on the Brooklyn Navy Lawn, in January 1851.[181]off Brazil on Dec

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