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29, 1812, she defeated and captured the British ge “ Java,” off the coast of Brazil; Feb. 14, 1814, she captured the “Picton.” and Feb. 15, 1814, she attacked and captured two British ve els, the ‘*Cyane”’ and the Constitution of In 1830 it was proposed by the Secretary of the Navy to dismantle the old ship and sell her; but this aroused general indignation, voiced in the poem “ Old Ironsides,’’ by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. She was afterward used as a school ship; later as a renting ship at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1900 she was stationed at the navy yard, Boston.