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Constitution in the chase Constitution was recommissioned in December with Captain John Rodgers all over again using command to supervise An important refitting. It had been overhauled at a price just under $one hundred,000; nevertheless, Rodgers inexplicably did not clean her copper sheathing, primary him to afterwards declare her a "slow sailer".