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But 1 thirty day period later on, she fulfilled with one of these yet again -- the frigate Guerriere. The British ship fired the 1st shot of the legendary battle; twenty minutes later on, Guerriere was a dismasted hulk, so terribly destroyed that she was not well worth towing to port.off Brazil on December 29. A British shot wrecked her helm, but b