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(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 12:00:46 pm)
On 23 August 1779, the USS Constitution set sail from Boston. She left with 475officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7400 cannon shot, 11,600 poundsof black powder, and 79,400 gallons of rum on board. Her mission was to destroyand harass English shipping. Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 poundsof black powder and 68,300 gallons of rum. Then she headed for the Azores,arriving there on 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and64,300 gallons of Portugese wine. On 18 November she set sail for England. Inthe ensuing days, she defeated five British Men-of War and captured and scuttled12 English Merchantmen, salvaging only their rum. By 27 January, her powder andshot were exhausted. Unarmed, she made a raid up the Firth of Clyde. Her landingparty captured a whiskey distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons aboard bydawn. Then she headed home. The Constitution arrived in Boston harbor on 20Febuary 1780 with no cannon shot, no powder, no food, no rum, no whisky, butwith 48,600 gallons of stagnate water.
(Fri Jan 25, 2002 - 2:14:57 pm)