USS Constitution Is Tugged Out of the Harbor
USS Constitution - being towed out for a sail to commemorate the battle that earned the oldest commissioned ship in the US Navy the nickname “Old Ironsides”
USS Constitution - being towed out for a sail to commemorate the battle that earned the oldest commissioned ship in the US Navy the nickname “Old Ironsides”
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1 | watching you tiny alien kittens are Sun, Aug 19, 2012 2:20:52pm |
2 | William Barnett-Lewis Sun, Aug 19, 2012 3:44:53pm |
I had noticed the date and was going to make a page about the battle with the HMS Guerriere but you've got a good one here.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
I am so glad they took her out today. 200 years baby!
3 | Curt Sun, Aug 19, 2012 5:36:21pm |
Read "Six Frigates" by Ian Toll.
The history if building that fine ship, and its 5 sister frigates. the story of getting thevlive oak in there is incredible, as well as why Joshua Humphries choose it. sprinkle in amazing notes on the debates in congress, the way the economiics and politics of the times were, and how our merchant ships sold to both the brits and the French.
something for everyone In that fine piece of writing.
4 | Bear Sun, Aug 19, 2012 7:33:14pm |
As a small boy I was aboard her when in the 1930's she came to San Francisco. Don't remember much about it other than my father remarking how small the sailors must have been when she was on active duty. Dad was 6'2" and had to duck when on the gun deck. I wonder when she was last actually under sail not being towed.