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She was involved in a severe collision While using the English brig Assurance, slicing her in 50 percent, which sank Using the lack of her captain. The surviving crew members were being carried back again to The us, wherever Structure was set in standard Yet again, this time in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in January 1851.[181]Structure entered dry dock

Her trouble-plagued voyage ongoing on 13 February when her rudder was destroyed throughout heavy storms, causing a complete lack of steering control, While using the rudder smashing in to the hull at random. 3 crewmen went above the stern on ropes and boatswain's chairs and secured it. Another morning, they rigged A short lived steering system. Bad