Captain Edward Preble ordered to take command of Structure in a letter dated 14 Could 1803[sixty five] as his flagship and produced preparations to command a new squadron for a third blockade try. The ship was recommissioned on twenty May.[66] The copper sheathing on her hull needed to be replaced and Paul Revere supplied the copper sheets needed f

Hull departed for France on five August 1811, transporting the new Ambassador Joel Barlow and his relatives; they arrived on 1 September. Hull remained in close proximity to France as well as the Netherlands in the Wintertime months, regularly Keeping sail and gun drills to maintain the crew Prepared for doable hostilities Together with the British