...ry, was put in command of her, with the Hornet, Captain Biddle, as her consort. At the close of May the British frigate Shannon, thirty-eight guns, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, appeared off Boston Harbor , in the attitude of a challenger. She then carried fifty-two guns. He wrote to Lawrence, requesting the Chesapeake to meet the Shannon, ship to ship, to try the fortunes of their respective flags...