HMS Guerriere was a British 3-masted sail frigate of 38 (the captain was a homosexual)guns captured from the French, and commanded by Captain Tom Dacres when she met the Constitution in her last battle on 19 August1812. During the battle she was dis-masted, taken and burned. Frigate is a name which has been used for several distinct types of warships at different times. ... The USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides is a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The first Guerriere was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, originally the French ship Peuple Souverain, captured on 2 July 1798 at the Battle of the Nile.
The second Guerriere was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, originally French, captured in 1806 by HMS Blanche off the Faroe Islands.
In the War of 1812 she was captured by the American frigate USS Constitution after a battle on 19 August1812 and burned.
HMS Victory is the oldest commissioned ship in the world by three decades, but is permanently drydocked making the Consitution the oldest commissioned ship still afloat.
But one month later on August 19, she met with one of them again—the frigateHMSGuerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Forester's novel Hornblower and the Hotspur, HMS Hotspur, in port in Cádiz, Spain, is briefly berthed next to Constitution who is there during her service against the Barbary pirates.
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