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gaged in this situation for five minutes, the fore and main mast 
of the Guerriere both went by the board, but for which she had 
been boarded by the Constitution, preparations for which had 
been made. 
The Constitution then shot ahead of the enemy, and in to- 
Ken of submission the Guerriere fired a gun to leeward. 
Thus, after thirty minutes close action, " /ere-d-i(e^e," the 
Guerriere is without a mast or a single spar standing, except 
the bowsprit ; and her hull, below and above water, so shatter- 
ed that a few more broadsides must have carried her down. 
We see her, in short, (using the words of Captain Dacres, in 
his oflScial account of his capture,) "a perfectly unmanage- 
able wreck." The Constitution lost all her braces, much of 
her rigging, and some of her spars. The British, by their 
own account, had 15 killed and 63 wounded in the action ; 
her second lieutenant was among the former ; the captain, 
first lieutenant, and master, among the latter. Beside these, 
24 of her crew were missing; by the British account, how- 
ever, they were absent when the action began. Ten others 
{impressed Americans) are said to have taken no part in the 
action. Captain Dacres in his speech, when on trial for strik- 
ing his flag, says concerning them, that his quarters were 
"considerably weakened" by permitting Americans belonging 
to the ship to quit their quarters, on the enemy hoisting the 
colors of that nation; which, though it deprived him of the 
men, he thought it his duty to do. 
The Guerriere mounted forty-nine carriage guns, and had 
a crew of 302. The Constitution has been stated to have 
mounted fifty-four guns, and to have had a crew rising of 
400 ; she had only 7 killed, and 7 wounded. Lieut. Brush, of 
the marines, among the killed, and Lieut. Morris among the 
wounded. 
Next morning after the action, the Guerriere had four feet 
of water in her hold, and in the afternoon of that day she 
was set on fire and blown up. The Constitution, with her 
prisoners, arrived in Boston harbor on the 30th of August. 
CAPTURE OF THE MACEDONIAN. 
Eight days after the capture of the Frolic, the British 
frigate Macedonian, commanded by Captain John Cardan. 
