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Originally Posted by TopHatter
I do wonder how they would have faired against Stephen Decauter and United States or Isaac Hull and Constitution.
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I don't think there was any combination of non-American frigate and crew that could beat an American 44-gunner. The Yankee crews were superb, and their ships were so much superior that, barring really horrible luck or something that couldn't be counted on to occur, HMS Shannon would've been grossly over-matched. (Like Victory against Constitution.)