As early as 1991, Commander David Cashman experienced recommended that Structure need to sail to celebrate her 200th anniversary in 1997 instead of being towed. The proposal was authorized, even though it absolutely was considered a substantial undertaking since she experienced not sailed in around a hundred many years.Now the oldest U.S. warship

But a single month later on, she satisfied with one of them once again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the first shot from the legendary battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly damaged that she wasn't worth towing to port.The earliest identified photograph of Structure, going through repairs in