Ladyluck Was An American
by
Tom W. Freeman
The enemy frigates met by chance in a lonely corner of the western Atlantic at the latitude of Boston. Captain Isaac Hull Command ing the big American frigate Constitution had never fought a ship duel before; for James Dacres in HMS Guerriere, it was deja vu. Dacres waited for his foe to close, which Hull did slowly. The action grew hot when the ships were almost muzzle to muzzle, and in twenty minutes the Briton's mizzen mast was shot away. From then on, through two collisions and continued heavy fire, things went Hull's way. As the sun set that day, 19 August 1812, his British foe, deprived of all masts, fired a surrendering gun to leeward. The news of his victory that Hull brought to Boston at the end of the month quickly flashed down the coast and into the interior. People spoke in awe of a champion with a new name: "Old Ironsides".

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