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incident in 1807 delayed her aid, and Campbell narrowly averted a mutiny by his homesick crew. StructureBut one thirty day period later, she achieved with one of them again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot in the famous battle; twenty minutes afterwards, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so poorly weakened that she was no